heavend
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I’ve come across the original thread by @12no3 a few times and only now had time to read through it in more detail. I think it’s only right I post to clarify a few things.
I can confirm that I was a buyer of the 42 names that Shane sold on from the overall original 845 deal.
I feel these names been dirtied to some extent due to the way things have unfolded. I just want to clarify that I bought them before any of the shady stuff went down. It was a normal trade like any other and I’ve also been in touch with the victim (@12no3 ). He is aware and does not blame me for anything. I also let the moderators know about this and everyone agrees that I am also a victim, but advised me to
post here to clarify the details.
Here are more details for those who are interested:
In the beginning of December I chatted with Shane Bellone about his big collection of cvcv.in. He claimed at the time he owned 850 cvcv.in's and offered me to purchase some.
I decided to purchase 50 of them. At this time of course, I had no knowledge where the domain names came from, since I buy and sell 1000's / year and this kind issue never even crosses your mind. Besides, as I understood it at the time, Shane was a respectable domainer within a community.
I even paid with paypal without worrying about this transaction. Once I paid on December 12th, it took a while for transaction to complete.
Out of our deal of 50 domains 8 were from Shane's dynadot account from some other transactions and were pushed by Shane within 4-5 days. 42 remaining domains were from west.xyz, and had issues with transfer.
Shane blamed the registry, saying they were not letting them generate the transfer keys, etc. We had some discussions over PM chat, and he guaranteed the domains or money back, and since he was very well respected fellow within community I never doubted his words. From what I understood it took a lot of effort from him to get those transfer codes. He seem to be very upset with them and with the whole process. I am not an expert at west.xyz, and never worked with them before, but once again - I had little reason to doubt his words. On the 20th I finally got the codes from the registry in the email and started the transfer, which completed around 25th or so.
23rd Of December was the last time I received a PM from Shane, when I confirmed the codes are all set.
Once I learned bad news about the whole deal I contacted the Moderators as well as Seller to make sure we can try to contact Shane and ask him what has happen, but to no avail.
Everyone, including the original seller of 42 names has contacted me and told me I did nothing wrong, so I am posting this to clear the air so there would be no speculations regarding those names.
As a side note I guess you never know with paypal, and one should be careful to accept any payments above their comfort level from people they don't trust 100 % and I certainly learned my lesson there.
Thank you,
Alex Kogan
I can confirm that I was a buyer of the 42 names that Shane sold on from the overall original 845 deal.
I feel these names been dirtied to some extent due to the way things have unfolded. I just want to clarify that I bought them before any of the shady stuff went down. It was a normal trade like any other and I’ve also been in touch with the victim (@12no3 ). He is aware and does not blame me for anything. I also let the moderators know about this and everyone agrees that I am also a victim, but advised me to
post here to clarify the details.
Here are more details for those who are interested:
In the beginning of December I chatted with Shane Bellone about his big collection of cvcv.in. He claimed at the time he owned 850 cvcv.in's and offered me to purchase some.
I decided to purchase 50 of them. At this time of course, I had no knowledge where the domain names came from, since I buy and sell 1000's / year and this kind issue never even crosses your mind. Besides, as I understood it at the time, Shane was a respectable domainer within a community.
I even paid with paypal without worrying about this transaction. Once I paid on December 12th, it took a while for transaction to complete.
Out of our deal of 50 domains 8 were from Shane's dynadot account from some other transactions and were pushed by Shane within 4-5 days. 42 remaining domains were from west.xyz, and had issues with transfer.
Shane blamed the registry, saying they were not letting them generate the transfer keys, etc. We had some discussions over PM chat, and he guaranteed the domains or money back, and since he was very well respected fellow within community I never doubted his words. From what I understood it took a lot of effort from him to get those transfer codes. He seem to be very upset with them and with the whole process. I am not an expert at west.xyz, and never worked with them before, but once again - I had little reason to doubt his words. On the 20th I finally got the codes from the registry in the email and started the transfer, which completed around 25th or so.
23rd Of December was the last time I received a PM from Shane, when I confirmed the codes are all set.
Once I learned bad news about the whole deal I contacted the Moderators as well as Seller to make sure we can try to contact Shane and ask him what has happen, but to no avail.
Everyone, including the original seller of 42 names has contacted me and told me I did nothing wrong, so I am posting this to clear the air so there would be no speculations regarding those names.
As a side note I guess you never know with paypal, and one should be careful to accept any payments above their comfort level from people they don't trust 100 % and I certainly learned my lesson there.
Thank you,
Alex Kogan
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