I don't have problem with masterbucks (because I don't withdraw), or registrar part of Epik (or maybe I do and I'm not aware of it).
My complaints are about their landing pages and marketplace.
I don't want to park at a global marketplace to invite lowballing agents
without knowing anything about actual buyers.
Previous state of Epik marketplace was great except its unintentional bugs,
which have been reported. Maybe some fixed, but worse ones (intentional ones)
were created. Hiding buyer info completely is pure evil part.
Why: because registrar and marketplace are the same. Registrar then has more control.
Also normally noone would park at epik. if we are parking at epik, this means,
we are willing to sell at epik, rather than using another service.
And if we are using Epik marketplace, then we prefer to have money on our account,
so probably we won't try to withdraw our money and use it, and then
commission becomes only 9 percent, better than most, if not all.
So they are not really worried that we would communicate at Epik, and sell elsewhere.
They can manipulate leads in many ways, once they hide "buyers'" info.
They would know which domains have serious buyers, and mark them, and
may even prevent messages for those specific domains,
so we don't have enough reason to renew, and they would quietly grab it and
contact potential buyers.
So, their purpose with this marketplace is NOT to help us sell domains.
They prefer that we have buyers but not know it.
So their purpose is to prevent sales.
Sale means 9 percent profit.
Grabbing means 100 percent , or more (compared to what they would get if we sold it), profit.
SInce obviously they are reducing amount of profit they would make in a honest business
(helping us sell, and get their commission),
they must be planning to make profit in a legal looking but unethical methods.
It can be arbitrage, or blocking messages,...
or sending buyers messages from our mouth, etc..
all of which would be much worse than shillbidding, and should be
counted as illegal, and if caught, require prison sentence.
BTW, I can pay higher than usual commission, it can be 30 percent, but I must know that it is a fair deal,
meaning, for example, they did outbounding, and without their help, it wold likely not sell for that price.
Someone should create a coupon system. I mentioned it in several threads.
Some people would make money from sales, and save time, by paying higher commission;
and some would not take any financial risk, and make money from someone else's sale.
And there would be not much trust issue.
