Manual Appraisals

[natepaul]

Someone offered me low $xxx for aboutpopebenedict.com but wants me to spend at least $50 on a manual appraisal. Is this normal? Do I need to foot the bill or is he suppose to do it? To be honest, I'm not sure what it's worth and I don't have a lot of domains to appraise and can't justify the cost of doing just one (versus getting a bulk discount).

Thanks,
Nate

 

[RegFee]

Someone offered me low $xxx for aboutpopebenedict.com but wants me to spend at least $50 on a manual appraisal. Is this normal? Do I need to foot the bill or is he suppose to do it? To be honest, I'm not sure what it's worth and I don't have a lot of domains to appraise and can't justify the cost of doing just one (versus getting a bulk discount).

Thanks,
Nate

Smells like an appraisal scam. Just do a search on any domain name related site for 'appraisal scam' and you'll learn all about it. Very common scam. They are probably the owners or affiliates of the appraisal company. Once you get the appraisal, they say never mind on the name, and you're $50 poorer.

 

[barefoottech]

Welcome to NP
but this sounds like the OLD appraisal scam again
http://namepros.com/showthread.php?t=109182
If so tell him/her to get lost
They just want you to get the appraisal ,don't really want the name sorry

 

[slaughterbeck]

Someone offered me low $xxx for aboutpopebenedict.com but wants me to spend at least $50 on a manual appraisal. Is this normal? Do I need to foot the bill or is he suppose to do it? To be honest, I'm not sure what it's worth and I don't have a lot of domains to appraise and can't justify the cost of doing just one (versus getting a bulk discount).

Thanks,
Nate

Yes, it’s pretty much the norm in this industry…For an appraisal scam.


Let me ask you a question, if you wanted a domain name for whatever reason, would you need some fly by night company to tell you what it’s worth? It’s worth what it’s worth because you need it not because of what someone says it should be priced.

 

[natepaul]

Thanks so much for your help! I'm glad I found this place!

Nate

 

[Zeeble]

The scammer is around on NamePros, hes just contacted me, I told him I want $3k, just waiting for him to say that he wants an appraisal. He does actually look around NamePros for the domains.

 

[RegFee]

Don't even reply if you feel it's an appraisal scam. You wouldn't reply to a spam email offering you FR33 V|/\Gr/\, would you? Might be some sort of harvesting script just collecting email addresses as well.

Good luck

 

[deet]

A Domain Name is only worth what someone is willing to pay!

 

[VisualArtistFrankBonilla]

Scam

Scam, no more to say. Don't waste your time, and especially your money!!

Frank

 

[Zeeble]

This guy has been looking out recently for people asking for appraisals, and has then done a Whois on the domain to get the contact email address.

 

[themaster]

Scam.. someone sent me an e-mail about one of my domain.. When you get apprasial from their site, they dont want to buy domain.. only scam mails

 

[natepaul]

Yeah, I sent him an e.mail yesterday, asking him to pay for the appraisal but I would knock that amount off the final sale price. Not even a response!

Sellers beware!!!!