riley west
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I am brand frickin' new to this whole domain flipping thing. I made a few junk purchases off the cuff last week of expired domains and then realized I had no idea what I was doing and was wasting my money. I wrote those domains off as a probably loss and set the whole situation aside with the intent to come learn everything I could when I had some more time (and had already paid my upcoming bills so I wouldn't knee-jerk buy more names I shouldn't buy).
But a couple days ago, somebody contacted me using the info on the WHOIS reg for one of the domains I bought and offered to buy it for a few hundred dollars, through escrow.com. It's a price that's right in between estibot and godaddy's estimates, so I'm definitely willing to sell it, but because I have no idea what I'm doing, and this seems WAY too lucky right out the gate, I just want to make sure there are no potential scams I'm overlooking here?
Again, it'll be through escrow.com, and I did read a thread that said to screencap or video record as I'm transferring just to be safe and have a record. And I searched the person requesting the sale and they seem to have several other sites registered and parked using the same email address...for whatever that tells me. I've been racking my brains and the worst case scenario I can come up with is that they change their mind and no sale happens, but any additional enlightenment would be greatly appreciated!
(And apologies if there are good resources on the board already. I'm crawling through as much as I can to learn everything I can moving forward, but there's SO MUCH great stuff to read here, and this one aspect of it all is a little time sensitive.)
But a couple days ago, somebody contacted me using the info on the WHOIS reg for one of the domains I bought and offered to buy it for a few hundred dollars, through escrow.com. It's a price that's right in between estibot and godaddy's estimates, so I'm definitely willing to sell it, but because I have no idea what I'm doing, and this seems WAY too lucky right out the gate, I just want to make sure there are no potential scams I'm overlooking here?
Again, it'll be through escrow.com, and I did read a thread that said to screencap or video record as I'm transferring just to be safe and have a record. And I searched the person requesting the sale and they seem to have several other sites registered and parked using the same email address...for whatever that tells me. I've been racking my brains and the worst case scenario I can come up with is that they change their mind and no sale happens, but any additional enlightenment would be greatly appreciated!
(And apologies if there are good resources on the board already. I'm crawling through as much as I can to learn everything I can moving forward, but there's SO MUCH great stuff to read here, and this one aspect of it all is a little time sensitive.)