debate I'm skeptical... Are you?!?

[Josh R]

Mike Mann reports all these domain sales which is great for him and the industry. But how real are they?

He reports very large sale prices that would only be justifiable from an end-user stand point. Even then, some of these prices are far-fetched based on the domain quality.

Now my question is, after days, weeks, months even years, why are these domains still in his name?.. Normally, the ones that are not in his name will be under privacy and not resolve to anything.

I'ts actually very difficult to find too many sales that are actually being used by an end-user. Please correct me if I'm wrong by all means... I've looked through many...

icram.com
lingerieboutique.com
shays.com
riseup.org
WeAreParents.com
Football.co

Old one for you as well, which triggered by interest.
FromRagsToRiches.com - Apparently sold in 2012 for 26K --- Never moved away from DomainMarket.com

I'm sure he has many very legit sales, but something just doesn't feel right to me?.. Thoughts?

 

[carob]

... and I think everyone gets a better offer on a name he no longer owns, once in a while.
uuh, that hurts like a mofo

But also beware there - there is a known scam of buying a cheap domain, then a new buyer approaches the original seller with a big offer - so the original owner buys it back at a huge increase from the original buyer to sell it to the new buyer who promptly disappears.

 

[poweredbyme]

Some domains might have been repurchased by the seller.
Is this a logical possibility? What do you think?

 

[Mike Mann]

The correct answer is all of those are clean sales. Once in a blue moon one is returned for credit card fraud. There are a variety of reasons people dont transfer away quickly as mentioned above.