Selling reputation for $100

[johnn]

I made an offer $1,000 on 2 domains and the seller accepted my offer.
He sent me his paypal email and asked me to pay.
I said I am on the road and I will pay when I get home. He said OK.

15 minutes later he sent me an email and said he sold the 2 names to someone for $1,100 because he needs more money.

So technically he sold his reputation for $100. I even offer $1,000 Mass Pay so he would net $1,000 even.
Is this the way you conduct a business? I told him he needs to refund the money to the buyer and sell the names to me as we agreed, The reason he needs money has nothing to do with the agreement for the transaction.

I am not desperately needed the names but I feel like I am being cheated.

The member is NP member and all the conversation happened in the PM.
I want to give him the last chance to do it right!!!

 

[Derek Guad]

@johnn, I'm sorry to hear that

 

[imadoer]

When you make a agreement you make a agreement and that should be it. I've had the same thing happen recently with a member here after I paid in escrow they wanted more money. It's not good practices AND ITS BAD BUSINESS I only think agreements should be broken if there's a problem with payment/ transfer or buyer donest pay with in a certain amount of time.

 

[venturefile.com]

Had this happen to me as well, just that he sold it for the same amount...

 

[eurorealtor]

Some people don't understand the concept of rules and good manners.
Now, he can take his business elsewhere.

 

[NameOmnia]

Am I the only one who has noticed that this kind of issues is happening more and more on the forum?

 

[Flipsbay]

Am I the only one who has noticed that this kind of issues is happening more and more on the forum?

What you expect as more and more are joining the forum and its always hard to maintain a large quantity of anything in this world why not members

 

[NameOmnia]

What you expect as more and more are joining the forum and its always hard to maintain a large quantity of anything in this world why not members

I understand that I just think that some measures should be taken. It is in the interest of the forum itself.
Just my opinion of course

 

[DU]

Am I the only one who has noticed that this kind of issues is happening more and more on the forum?

Perhaps people are just complaining and whining more and more?

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I think people get a reputation for bitchiness when they complain, but maybe that's just me. Mostly because all that is delivered is one biased side of the story. I certainly think that threatening with shaming and all that BS makes you look worse than if you take the moral high-road and walk away. I don't want to deal with complainy domainy people

 

[jideofor]

It's a pretty tempting situation on what money can do to many of us. I remember selling a name at loss but I had to keep to an agreement and asked for transfer details even before buyer would make any move, and this was IMMEDIATELY after auction ended.

Was I tempted not to honor the deal? YES

Did I feel bad? YES

Did made any loss? Damn yes

would I trade my name for fee bucks or a million dollar? Certainly NOT!

 

[21x20]

You didn't leave negative feedback? Why haven't you left negative feedback? You posted the thread here, but no feedback -- so the only people who would ever know about this are the ones reading the thread.

Meanwhile, this is exactly what the feedback system is for, IMHO... rather than threads.

 

[cocaseco]

It's sad that so many fellow domainers are so fast to find excuses to condone such an unethical behavior.

What is the appropriate amount of time to wait in your opinion?

 

[LaunchUp.com]

@johnn I Agree..It is basic business integrity. Even if you leave money on the table; you must carry through what you agree to as a seller. That's their reputation they are throwing away. If they don't correct the issue then reveal their name. If someone, offers me $50 for a name and I agree, then the deal is done. If shortly after another person offer me $80 for the same name then I let them know the name is no longer available..I would kick my self a little for leaving money on the table but i simply use it as a learning experience and keep my word. That have happened to me with llll.com domains before.. Your word is your reputation, it's your contract. If I agree to sell you a name then the deal is done before I even get to paypal. If someone doesn't even value their own word then be weary of doing business with them, because they won't value you either. It's even more sad that it's $100 difference.

If they are a new domainer then maybe they need a little correction.
If they have been domaining for sometime then I don't know what to say..

 

[900Worldwide]

Still want to know who's the member...

 

[MasterOfMyDomains]

I gave him enough time to make it up and do it right but he seems to ignore me so here is the sale thread

https://www.namepros.com/threads/sold-lll-org.908743/#post-5279981

 

[Bearded Goat]

@900Worldwide the member is @busyj as mentioned on page 2...

 

[mibworld]

What is the appropriate amount of time to wait in your opinion?

Looks like you missed this quote from OP's first post: "I said I am on the road and I will pay when I get home. He said OK. 15 minutes later he sent me an email and said he sold the 2 names ...."

As you can see, they had reached an agreement that the payment would be done when the buyer get home. The seller agreed but wouldn't wait even an hour before selling the domain to a third party.

 

[johname]

Helps if you would have posted: "pm sent" later "agreed on price and payment"

 

[sofiapartner]

And interestingly enough the seller liked soofi's post where he stated.

As outlined in the NamePros rules, it clearly states that all sales agreements are binding.

That means that this agreement between buyer/seller is binding regardless of being in private messages. Payment was agreed to be made after sometime. I would suggest that the seller (@busyj) must go through with the sale that was agreed upon between him and the buyer (@johnn).

And @djum - damn - this story for the $1 is funny. Sorry though.

 

[cocaseco]

Looks like you missed this quote from OP's first post: "I said I am on the road and I will pay when I get home. He said OK. 15 minutes later he sent me an email and said he sold the 2 names ...."

As you can see, they had reached an agreement that the payment would be done when the buyer get home. The seller agreed but wouldn't wait even an hour before selling the domain to a third party.

Nope, read it all. But you berate us for being so fast to condone this unethical behavior, so I would like to know how long we should wait (in your opinion), before we condone this unethical behavior? Would have been better if we waited an hour? A day?

 

[mibworld]

Nope, read it all. But you berate us for being so fast to condone this unethical behavior, so I would like to know how long we should wait (in your opinion), before we condone this unethical behavior? Would have been better if we waited an hour? A day?

100 years would have been fine I think.