Sedo wants me to unlock the domain and send them the auth code?

[poker_bears]

I just sold a domain via Sedo for high $$$. They want me to unlock the domain and send them the auth code. That doesn't sound very safe. Per their TOS, they're supposed to provide escrow.

A few months ago I sold a domain through them for high $$$$. I pushed the domain to their broker, they pushed it to the seller. I basically told them this is how it will work with this sale as well, or there is no sale.

Is this how they operate with small sales? I'm considering pulling all of my domains off Sedo.

Simply unlocking the domain and sending them the auth code seems really REALLY unsafe....

 

[gustave]

You keep asking the OP if he has an example of it happening once. What difference does it make at the end? The possibility is there so we should be careful. It's gonna happen to someone someday. Not going to argue with you. All I see in your posts is a war of arguments coming from a keyboard warrior. Don't want to waste my time.

You talk about my bad english then insult me by suggesting me to take interpersonal courses? Pretty ironic eh.

 

[discobull]

You keep asking the OP if he has an example of it happening once. What difference does it make at the end? The possibility is there so we should be careful. It's gonna happen to someone someday. Not going to argue with you. All I see in your posts is a war of arguments coming from a keyboard warrior. Don't want to waste my time.

You talk about my bad english then insult me by suggesting me to take interpersonal courses? Pretty ironic eh.

One of the things that they'll teach you in your interpersonal course is that when you start a conversation with an insulting, disrespectful remark, you can anticipate getting a less than respectful response in return. So, while I appreciate the fact that you're apparently familiar with the concept of irony, I'm going to suggest that you've apparently missed how it applies in this case.

As far as the rest of your comment, I didn't ask him whether he'd heard of a case with the intention of challenging him. I asked him the question very simply because I sincerely wanted to know if he knew of it ever actually happening. It's interesting to me that you find the question irrelevant, because to me it has obvious significance in assessing the real world risk. If Sedo has been doing business this way for 15 years and nobody can point to a single case of anyone getting scammed, that tells me that their process is relatively safe. To you, it's apparently a meaningless piece of information. Fair enough. The bottom line for me, however, is that while I applaud every effort to make Sedo's process even safer, I can't help but think that it doesn't make a lot of sense to pass up on deals out of fear of a scam that so far has never materialized.

You disagree with me? Great. Exchanging different points of views is exactly the point of a public forum. Figure out how to disagree politely and you might find yourself having meaningful debates instead of childish fights. All the best.