Am I right to be suspicious?

[budget]

Maybe im just to suspicious but a day of hard negotiations and finally hitting an agreeable xxxx price why would a buyer suddenly change email address after escrow was mentioned.
..........
Hi Paul,

I don't know why but I don't accept emails from yesterday's evening to
my email which I was writing to you from. Please write to me on this
email and if you sent me some reply to my last email, please forward
it here, thank you.

(EDIT) NAME WAS HERE.

..........

 

[.X.]

Could be they have spam control on to high,E-mail server prob ect.If it is a legit escrow service,You have nothing to worry about concerning the transaction,Thats what escrow services are for,To monitor and make sure that all is legit and that the transaction is completed without problems

 

[budget]

Yeah your right,Been in contact with interested party and he is the real deal.

 

[LeeRyder]

I use an entirely different email addy for my escrow moments... so I dont think anything is wrong with it..

to me, it is just one more safegaurd against grifters..etc.

PayPal for lowlevel domain sales is one address
PayPal for high level is secondary addy
escrow is third addy

helps keep the ducks in a row too, but again..mainly it is security in the event someone is able to hack my passwords.

 

[Mark]

I don't think you can ever be too suspicious in this Business ~ But I agree with Lee , As I am the same way ...... I have several email accounts that are Never publicized and have only been used a few times over the past few years.

I would definitely try out a Phone number as well though ~ Maybe Ask him/her something that was only written in earlier emails.

Good Luck ~

 

[EbookLover]

Maybe im just to suspicious but a day of hard negotiations and finally hitting an agreeable xxxx price why would a buyer suddenly change email address after escrow was mentioned.

I think you have every right to be suspicious.

BTW, email is no way to do business with large numbers, especially when you are selling something that is VERY easily stolen like a domain name. You gotta use the horn, man! I hope you have the sense NOT to transfer the domain to his registrar. Make him sign up with your reg, push it to his account, and let him worry about transferring to a different reg.

Good luck. And let us know how it pans out.

 

[wisconsin]

It is not unusual that a domain seller changes the email address for the registrant contact for escrow.com / sale transaction purposes. I have done it. Nothing is wrong with it and as long as trasaction is handled by escrow.com

I also had a situation recently where I was using a free email address to receive offers on my domains as well as negotiate the sale and before I know it the owner of the free email service disabled my email address and I couldn't access it. Of course, I was worry that the buyer(s) may have sent me emails but I had no access to my email account. I contacted the email service provider who told me that my initial agreement to use the "free" service prohibits me from using it for commercial purposes and if I want to continue to use it that way (commercial) I have to upgrade and pay $14.95

 

[Grrilla]

I also had a situation recently where I was using a free email address to receive offers on my domains

Another heads up note not exactly on topic, but related to email address use. Because I was concerned w/ SPAM etc, and realizing the whois would be public info, early on, I used a "junk catching" hotmail address for my contact info, and when I changed to a main established address, I failed to update all info w/ every registrar and B/O account. I stopped using the hotmail acct, it was terminated due to lack of use, (not checking in every 30 das, I believe). It is not currently being used by someone, I can't log into it, and I can't create a new hotmail acct w/ it. Although I haven't lost any names, many registrars wouldn't let me update info w/o using their email verification link from the*contact* email address listed in the whois, although all account, email and billing info had been updated. The upshot is that none of the other contact info can be updated w/o faxing or mailing change forms, and in one instance I recall one registrar required that the doc also be notarized. I encourage everyone who is not doing so, to use one stable email address that will be around for the long haul and that cannot be pulled from you, for all whois contact info.

 

[IAmAllanShore]

Just another heads up, slightly on/off topic, but some of my "offers" have come through my whois info, so while they will be spam-heavy, it's worth it to check through your whois-sourced emails once or twice a week, IMHO.
-Allan

 

[Grrilla]

My *best* offers have actually come by way of buyers contacting me directly using the whois contact email.