Advice - Difficult buyer on small sale.

[ExampleName]

Hi all.

This is an odd little question...

I have a problem buyer on my hands who purchased a domain from me for a low $XX.

1.) He paid after the time period in which payment was required. I didn't mind much, at least he paid. Now I had his money, and figured I'd just go through with the transaction.

2.) His correspondence was very sketchy, taking many days between message and reply.

3.) He couldn't get me his info to push the domain to his account and kept dragging it out, so I refunded his money and cancelled the deal.

4.) Immediately after I cancelled, he send me the info for the push to his account.

5.) Wanting this over, I pushed the domain and told him to repay me.


You can guess how this has turned out.

He hasn't responded and I haven't gotten repaid.



I want to take action to reverse the push... but I feel like that will just draw out this ordeal even longer.



I'm not sure which is worse... letting him get away with a free domain at low $XX price... or try to fight it and get more involved with this stupid process.


Your thoughts? Advice?

Maybe there's an option I haven't realized, yet?

 

[mitch007]

Is it a go daddy domain?
If yes, did he accept it ?
IF not accepted, you can get it back immediately.

 

[ExampleName]

Dynadot, unfortunately.

Their poor customer service is why I'm motivated to sell off domains I have with them for $XX. Heh.

 

[liquidcherry]

I want to take action to reverse the push... but I feel like that will just draw out this ordeal even longer.

go for it, you wasted your time already, what are a couple days more....

Or send him a letter that if he is not repaying you you will take legal actions to fullest extend...maybe that gets the ball rolli'n...

cheers

liquid

 

[alien51]

I presume you are an honest man.

However.... any third party looking from the outside (like your registrar), cannot immediately believe that you were not repaid for this domain push.

Being "objective", means that either side cannot be trusted with just their word of mouth, and lacking hard evidence.

Therefore, i think your domain is a goner.

Transactions like these, are built on plain "trust".

Without "trust", there is always escrow.

 

[BookWorm]

So you pushed a domain without having payment and now you're concern you'll lose your domain? Wow.

 

[Bannen]

This is fantastic!!

Hard to believe you learned this lesson (did you?) for a loss of only $50!!

Man... only 50 bucks to learn the lesson (NEVER push a domain until you've been paid for it) that has cost other domainers hundreds, and in some cases, thousands of dollars and weeks of frustration.

Praise God, feel graced and blessed, don't waste another second with this transaction, but remember the lesson. It doesn't matter that the first time around you made sure you were paid first; you do it every time, even if the transaction gets totally screwy. Because what a great scam this guy has going:
You pay someone for a name; you make communication almost impossible and drag it out, until that person repays you and cancels; then you suddenly give clear communication with details to transfer the domain, figuring you've paid the seller once already so he'll probably just push the name already and trust you for the payment again; if he falls for it, you resume your non-communication again.
Even if it wasn't planned out like this... it still worked out this way.

Scammers, cheaters, liars, thiefs, they'll take a domain from you any way they can. Sometimes they might not even plan to, but a 'crime of opportunity' happens, where the transaction just works out that way and instead of making it right, they figure they can get away with it so why not? Looks like that happened here. It was a good set-up and the buyer/thief jumped on it.

Just my 2 cents. Probably not even worth 2 cents though


No matter which twists and turns a transaction takes, no matter how many of those twists and turns happen, keep making sure you have the payment before you transfer/push the domain. Never trust an unknown buyer to 'do the right thing'. Domain Selling 101, first rule. In fact, it's Internet Selling 101, first rule.

Whatever you do, good luck

 

[ExampleName]

So you pushed a domain without having payment and now you're concern you'll lose your domain? Wow.

Re-read the post, especially the end where it's clear I said I'm trying to decide if I care enough.

Hard to believe you learned this lesson (did you?) for a loss of only $50!!

Thanks for the great PoV. I'm definitely not going to do this again - scam or not.

I don't think this is a scam, so much as a buyer who has no idea what he's doing and is barely staying afloat in his purchases. Of course - what a great scam, right?

It wasn't $50, though. I said low $XX. I would count $50 as mid $XX.

This was under $20 - so I guess I should count myself extra lucky. Heh.

 

[afternoonsun]

If that situation happen to me Id go and fight for it.. you spend time in doing it so you deserve to be paid in the amount you have agreed.

 

[alien51]

If that situation happen to me Id go and fight for it..

20 dollars can be a cheap form of learning experience. It's just like letting 2 domains drop.

Get-Rich-Quick e-books on the internet, are even more expensive selling for atleast 49.95.

So losing 20 bucks may not all be that bad.

 

[abdussamad]

oh plz. no one is going to scam you for 20. the guy will pay up eventually. as u said he's a noob.

sry for the im speak. typing one handed here