Going insane over this

[The Grinch]

A few months ago i was very stressed and wanted to get rid of this MJ site i run. Mostly because everyone on it was annoying me (it was a pretty active mj fan community site)

Someone offered me $26 for it but paid $25. oh well, anyways i just wanted to get rid of it.

The domain is mjhq.com

Well since then i got out more and you all know how depression is and i wanted to open the site back up. i asked the guy if he'd sell it back and he said he didn't have a problem with it, but would never give me a price. Said he might want me to do some work for him or design a layout instead but didnt know. So i thought cool I was going to get the domain back.

Anyways days and weeks past and nothing So i pm him again and he says he is thinking about it still.

so another week or so goes by and i email him again and i start offering him alot of things such as $50 and other LLLL.com domains. he said he wasn't sure if he wanted to get rid of a 4 car domain, so i offered him like 3 of them, but still nothing.

he doesn't even reply half the time and I never even know if he got my emails or messages. At least he could reply back and say it wasn't good enough?

I got close to offering him $100 for a domain he paid $25 for tht expires soon, only because it had personal meaning to me. But he is being so damn complicated with it.

i can very well open my site and produce it again if I don't know what the domain is going to be or the title. I bought kingofentertainment.com which i kinda like alot and has full words so thats always good. But still that older domain has alot of memories and all that good stuff.

So last night i emailed him again and offered him more money and other things and he replies saying he never said he was going to sale it back and that he even thought about selling it back to me for what he paid which was $25. The problem is is that i don't believe it. he would of done it by now.

It really seems that he's just being complicated and its really making me turn evil because of how annoying it is. He shouldn't be giving mix signals and getting my hopes up on something like this. It's almost like he is playin some lame game people who don't get out much play on others. Sick twisted humor type stuff.

Is a simple MJHQ.com domain worth that much?
All the appraisals i got for it said it's not work hardly anything. Even he himself didn't get good appraisals.

Wasn't my deals good enough? I know Me emailing him once a week tryin to get updated on it might of been annoying, but he should of emailed me back on my offers you know?

I feel like i have gone evil and are black mailing him now. It doesn't really seem that way, i guess i am just doin this to see if he'd take it.

his main site is pcfastlane.com so i bought pcfastlane.net trying to trade him it for mjhq.com plus $27
i also bought mjhq.net because its almost the same and I can let everyone who went to mjhq.com know the name change.

anyways I guess what I am trying to ask is if all these seems worth it and am i coming insane over a dumb lame domain?

What do you think i should do besides get a life? ha
im just really annoyed and tired of these stupid games he is playing.

i know my actions are very childish

 

[DNQuest.com]

damnidunno, you should probably stop at this point. You didn't deny any of the accusations against you and those actions are pretty unethical. I didn't see anywahere that SS stated his asking price and may have been stringing dunno along. This maybe a situation where 2 parties are playing with each other and one of them went over the edge.

I don't beleive this would come under squatting because I can't see SS being able to make a case for TM protection. We do allow competition and even though dunno threatened creating a new site, that won't come under UDRP or the Lanhan Act. damnidunno on the other hand is being shown as a very unethical person and I hope this is being looked at...

 

[The Grinch]

damnidunno, you should probably stop at this point. You didn't deny any of the accusations against you and those actions are pretty unethical. I didn't see anywahere that SS stated his asking price and may have been stringing dunno along. This maybe a situation where 2 parties are playing with each other and one of them went over the edge.

I don't beleive this would come under squatting because I can't see SS being able to make a case for TM protection. We do allow competition and even though dunno threatened creating a new site, that won't come under UDRP or the Lanhan Act. damnidunno on the other hand is being shown as a very unethical person and I hope this is being looked at...

i have stopped, i just reply to people's misunderstandings of the situations and making that guy look like the victim.

If finally getting upset at someone playing you for a while and being a real jerk via email is called getting unethical, then fine, thats me.
I didn't play him. I actually Did want the domain and was offering him 3x as much as he paid. Now i don't it anymore.

And no i dont want pcfastelane.net and Im really not going to produce it or anything. I dont like it nor the name. I was just angry and already told him he could have the domain. People get upset over a month when someone is just toying with them and over react.

If i felt I did something wrong or bad, Or if i did do it all mean spirited, then i wouldnt of created this topic stating all that in the very first post.

I am the one who keeps my word, so dealing with me is fine. He is the one i'd be wary with dealing with.

I don't want the mjhq domain anymore, he already ruined it. I really only wanted it back for the members of my site.
if you knew everything that happened, u could understand why I'd go insane over this, which is the topic title.

I dont just wake up, pick a domain I want and black mail and spam the owner until i get it. I emailed this guy asking if i could buy it back since he wasn't really using it. he has one of them content built sites that you just upload so i thought i might have a chance.

I told him It'd be cool if he didn't want to sell it back - that is in my very first message to him about him and thats all he had to say. I didn't start start showing my annoyance to him over the matter until the last emails - I just had enough of it.

this topic and a few of the understanding responses were very helpful. and than you to the people who posted them - it's nice to know someone actually listens to the situation.

I didnt get mad or annoyed that he didn't sell me the domain. I am fine with that, i am mad that he played me for over a month and at the end seemed to think it was funny and wasted my time. But i am over it now - people like that exist and get off on it.

 

[labrocca]

Once I spent an entire year discussing the purchase of a site from a guy. He refused to name a price. Over the course of the year we discussed many things...I didn't always mention the site but he was well aware I wanted it. Eventually we became very friendly and still speak often on AIM. I consider him a web-friend. Eventually he did name a price and it was reasonable...I quickly bought it. The moral of the story...you don't "go insane" because you can't buy a domain. You have patience and do what you can.

Now the domain owner has said clearly you never offered anywhere near $100 for the domain. Personally a PR3 with fair backlinks and a decent 4 LLLL combo is worth $100 if not more. Now it can be aggravating he has not named a price. I might not either...I would see how far you would go with your offers. Obviously domain owner is a domainer looking to make money. It's your job to entice him enough to sell...you didn't do that.

As for PCFastLane being trademarkable..heck yeah it is. While using dictionary words...they are not generic to the field of use. Windows is dictionary term but it's not definable to the software environment. The same goes with the term "fast lane"...that's an automobile street or racing term. It's was the intention of idunno to register the .NET in order to sell or trade it to the actual TM holder...that's the true definition of a cybersquatter.

Wikipedia:

According to the U.S. federal law known as the Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act, cybersquatting is registering, trafficking in, or using a domain name with bad-faith intent to profit from the goodwill of a trademark belonging to someone else. The cybersquatter then offers the domain to the person or company who owns a trademark contained within the name at an inflated price, an act which some deem to be extortion.

As for your selling record.

The situation I had with this guy doesn't mean My selling record is bad.

No your selling record is good..it's your ethics that are in question.