discuss Is it a sketchy sale or not?

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Within the last few years, I sold a .com domain name for five figures via Afternic. I do not report my sales, and I did not make an exception for this sale. As far as I can tell, this sale went completely under the radar. I am thankful for this because I think it would look super sketchy if I had announced the sale...

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I gave the article read. The key question being "why would someone buy a domain name and almost immediately list it for sale just a bit higher than what was paid?"

I've no idea what that person would be thinking. Maybe inexperienced, maybe seeing if he / she could break even on the purchase / testing if it was a good buy, testing the waters in some regard. Sketchy implies being dishonest. I'd probably consider it a curious case, to be kinder IMO