My dealings with Sedo has usually been to sell domains, however, yesterday, I made my first ever bid to buy.

The domain I bid for is one I sold a few years back. Sadly, it has never been used to for much since, and now has no Pagerank and looks like it has lost a lot of back links.

The process to make an offer was pretty straight forward, and within 12 hours I had a response from the seller. Unfortunately, the seller’s counter offer - and final offer - was $1.5k.

As there was no movement to negotiate I ended ‘negotiations’ forthwith, as the price was extremely unrealistic.

This instance hasn’t put me off bidding on more domains on Sedo, however, I do hope seller’s appraisal methods improve.

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After yesterday mentioning a scam, today I received a suspicious e-mail from someone interested in buying the domain RobbieColtrane.com.

The mail is from ‘Mark Hayes’, whose name I have a feeling I’ve seen mentioned before on NamePros.com.

I’ve also come across a near identical copy of the e-mail mentioned on discussnames.com, where people are discussing whether it is an appraisal scam or not.

Regardless, I won’t be responding, as I have zero interest in selling the domain.

Hello,

I would like to purchase your domain robbiecoltrane.com (domain name
only, not any site or content).

If you are interested in selling please provide an asking price or we
can submit an offer if you prefer.

Thank you,

Mark Hayes

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I noticed on webmaster-talk.com another thread where someone had been ripped off.

It’s basically the same old story. Someone had paid upfront for a website without receiving the domain or files and the seller absconded with the loot.

In this case, it seems the seller had previously sold the site at Digital Point and the scammed buyer failed to check the domain’s whois information.

Luckily, the buyer managed to confirm that the seller was the same person who sold the site in the first place via the Paypal information and quickly made a complaint via Internet Crime Complaint Centre and put in a dispute at Paypal.

Usually, the story ends with Paypal refusing to refund regardless of how much evidence you provide, due to websites and domains being ‘intangible’. However, the unfortunate buyer managed to find a real address for the ’seller’ and got his money back after alerting him that the Police were on there way.

It’s good to hear a good outcome for once, as usually the scammers always win.

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Yesterday, I was in a bit of a dilemma. On a forum, someone was looking to buy a type of site which I own. Even though I hadn’t even thought about selling the site, I was in two minds whether to even bother contacting the buyer.

The site consistently makes good revenue, has a great domain, plenty of potential for the future, good unique content, so why sell? The only reason I could come up with was that the site is a bit neglected.

In the end, I decided it was worth contacting the buyer and seeing what kind of offer I could get, as his/her budget was a decent size. Unfortunately, the buyer didn’t even respond.

Regardless of the lack of a reply, I think it brought up an interesting situation. Like I hadn’t even thought of selling, but if I had been offered a very good offer, I would most likely have sold. So it just shows, that even with me, most websites have a price.

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