I'm aware that Epik did very bad things noone else did, but it was caused by lack of cash related to crypto crash (unexpected to them) mostly, rather than enjoying being evil.
And we need to know what part was done by BJ or RM.
There is an unacceptable greed factor also.
But it is everywhere: Afternic hiding prices, and not telling even when asked (when they act as Godaddy), and clearly they want to sell for a higher price than the fixed price, and trust endusers' and domainers' stupidity.
Dynadot shows ppc ads, and this would make you lose in udrp, and block sales, because contacting domain owners is not easy, it is a secret only domainers know.
It is easier to sell at Epik than anywhere else, because elsewhere there is a thick wall between buyers and sellers, and it is used for arbitrage (sometimes).
You need to be aware of what kind of cheating each can do. For example I trust Sedo and Afternic and Dan in big sales (they won't steal money directly , send agreed amount on time), but I hate that Sedo shows our contact info to anyone, domains don't resolve at Dan, and Afternic hiding prices on landing pages.
Dynadot and Afternic maybe also Dan don't show landing pages when javascript is off, and this makes landing pages nonindexable. And it can be used for other evil purposes, such as showing a different price depending on IP, and if cloudflare doesn't like you, landing page may remain invisible.
Arbitrage attempts by big players kill this business completely. Only small players should be allowed to do this (and it can't be stopped anyway).
Masterbucks and Epik are not completely disconnected, for example when you login at Epik, those cookies make you logged in at Masterbucks as well. But you can't transfer money between those without contacting at least one of them. if you do, maybe they can help.
People are not perfect. People's behavior are strongly affected by their financial and other situation. Someone may be rich, and pay everyone on time, and give gifts and prizes, and you think this is a good employer. Same for politicians, they can steal trillions, and give citizens part of it as bribe, and win in elections again. And same for your employees. You pay too much, they don't work harder, suddenly you give much less with a reason, they stop working. But all these don't mean you won't do business with them. For example, can you stop buying electronics which have i b m hardware in it.
You are helping the most evil people, just by living on this planet, and not aware of it. There is much bigger evil in this world everywhere than delaying payments for month because of desperation.
Almost all products in shops have child blood in them directly or indirectly.
