warning If you intend to use Domain Agents

[wolfis.com]

This is a heads up on a service that calls himself Domain Agents ….you may or may not have gotten emails from them .
i did get many over the past several years ….always with someone making an lowball offer on a good domain .
they advertise that you will get $ 10 if you enter negotiations .( and that is how they get you ) .
like i said i got many offers over the years and i never ever worked out because of the ridiculous lowball offers people make . Anyhow i still get the $ 10 ( they always paid ) sometimes it takes a little while but you get it .

however , they only provide support when and if it fits their agenda …i wrote a support ticket well over a week ago to someone supposedly named Robert , who initially contacted me with the offer …he never replied to me support email that i will not use escrow.com ( escrow.com and i do not see eye to eye when it comes to run an honest business , so i plainly refuse using escrow.com for the past 10 years )

today i contacted domain agents support again and again on my new issue no reply ( because it does not fit their agenda ) i ask them to cancel the negotiations of a certain domain .


here is the issue ….person makes an offer , i make an counter offer ….person makes another offer ( $ 4500 + commission he has to pay as this is by default ) and i make an offer $ 5000 and i pay all Commission on sedo ( at least 20 % ) ….so my offer is actually cheaper for the buyer …..no way he can turn that down …. But he does in a big way ….he counters that he and his team evaluating several domains and need more time to decide which domain to buy .

So the buyer clearly plays games and is not really interested in buying . So i cancel the negotiations. After another week the buyer does exactly the same thing word by word …this time i ignore the complete thing and the emails tell me if i don't react the negotiations will be ending ….WRONG …just hours before the deadline this so-called buyer again word by word tells that his team are evaluating several domains and need more time to decide which domain to buy . I again cancel the negotiations ( now almost a month ) and tell them that there is no need to decide which domain because my domain is no longer for sale ( which btw appraises even higher on the godaddy appraisal software ) and i write another support ticket to domain agents to cancel negotiations …of course no response .


so if you ever use domain agents , be aware that there support does not answer you ( kinda just like escrow.com ) and that you have no way to end negotiations with a idiot who makes a game out of fake negotiations .

you have been warned about domain agents !

 

[Arch]

I have the opposite problem. I'm trying to buy a domain but whatever agent I use doesn't take the time to contact the owner. The name I wanted was held by one of those sites (actually it was domainagents) that charges $20 ($19.95) to contact the owner with any offer of $20 or more. So I paid the fee and made an offer of $4,000.

The owner never responded and of course the site kept my $20 fee. I then contacted another service where the owner was written up in one of these trade articles as "the hot new domain acquirer becoming famous for domain acquisitions". The domain of interest is listed as being worth $7,000. So I increase my offer to $8K this time. No response. I try to call the famous service to ask them to at least find out the price but THEIR PHONE IS DISCONNECTED. They did respond to an email tho, telling me they got no response and that was it. Also they gave me a little info on the owner so apparently they found who they are.

I'm just an engineer trying to start something. I try to be very logical and not play games. If I said $8K and 6 months later they call me and say "okay", I'd go for it. I sometimes wonder how businesses at "the top of the industry" can have disconnected phone lines.

So it's just not domain sellers that are having a rough time of it but domain buyers as well.

DM me directly what you're trying to purchase, and I should be able to help. I won't charge an upfront fee.

 

[NameGroove]

@DomainAgents

Can you tell me - are we required to point NS to DA when listing our names? Or are we able to list when NS are pointed elsewhere?

 

[Gallienus]

DM me directly what you're trying to purchase, and I should be able to help. I won't charge an upfront fee.

To close the loop, a friend helped me to get the domain that I was seeking. It ended up costing me a bit but probably way below the reseller price!