Potential buyer wants to do a background check on me? This is a first.

[RaiderGirl]

I cant make any sense of this other than intimidation...

Potential buyer contacts me about a domain, oddly the buyer is a left wing Super Pac funded by George Sorros, I priced it higher than I normally would and replied with a price of $8K, (I now regret not going higher)

Buyer replies their interested but wants to vet me, she asks for my full name, phone etc, so I remove the Whois privacy which shows all that and informed her of that in my reply. I also initiated a Escrow invoice at escrow.com. This was on Friday.

Didn't hear anything in nearly 3 days, so I decided to call this morning and spoke to the person in charge and she tells me they just purchased the dot org for $4000 and their looking to spend about the same for the dot com, she tells me they only want to use it for a redirect, I replied that it really makes no difference what they use it for, it wont effect the price.. I explained that dot com values are usually much higher than dot orgs, and since I've been receiving recent interest for the domain, the price is not negotiable..

Later in the day she emails me back and asks me to consider an offer of $5K, she goes on to say that the person who does background checks was not in the office today and will be in tomorrow, and I should think on it while were waiting on that, I replied back stating pretty much the same thing, that I felt it was already priced low and I've received other offers higher than hers and I'm firm on the price, declined the offer, thanked her for it and didn't address the background check issue, Currently waiting on her reply.

Since were using Escrow where they offer protection, whats with the background check? Not that I have anything to hide or fear, I just don't get it, If its for purposes of intimidation, the price will DOUBLE after escrow cancels the transaction for non activity....

I also thought, this is a Super Pac where they make a living digging up a dirt on people and exposing it to the world, so perhaps this is the norm for them, I don't know.

Your take on it..

 

[verbster]

I would expect no less from a left wing organization who's primary business is trashing people.

I did not enter into any discussion about politics, my personal beliefs or anything else not having to do with the domain and the price, This is after all a business transaction and I treated it as such.

When the inquiry came in, did you overprice the domain before or after finding it was a Soros SuperPAC?

 

[DU]

No, I did not forget to mention that because it did not happen.
And I did not miss the seller's reference to Soros.

What you're suggesting is simply made up and does not relate to the issue at hand at all.

Based on the information presented here, the interested buyer knows nothing about the seller's political affiliation, her 'personal principles', or her potential ideological objection to selling to them. That is all on the seller.

The only thing they had the gall to do was make a domainer a respectable counteroffer to buy a domain that was for sale.

When did everyone become so literal?

The only hoop they asked was to accept an offer....
By telling her who they were they implicitly asked her to compromise....

Whatever, who cares.

but I would expect no less from a left wing organization who's primary business is trashing people...

[edited]

I discussed this with friends who are business minded people and they suggested I do the same thing... I'd like nothing more than to sell it to them instead, I plan to look into it and make some inquiries.. I'll keep you posted.

Well let's see a right wing(?) domainer take the moral high ground and NOT use the .com in a negative fashion, eh?