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I haven't posted anything about this until now, but I saw user ShytKicker go on the offensive against someone for backing out of an Escrow.com deal. Unfortunately, I experienced the same problem where he was the seller of the name 973.com, which he still owns.
He agreed to sell 973.com to me for $6,820 and opened up Escrow.com transaction #382733-0 on 10/9/06 and backed out of this deal on me. I have never said anything to anyone about this. I would still like to buy this name at this price - assuming it isn't stolen.
Here is how all this transpired after agreeing to sell the name to me (I kept all of our PMs and Emails with my Gmail.).
"Hey Elliot,
I have some quite interesting and disturbing news. I am quite angy and puzzled. GoDaddy has locked my account about an hour ago and I received an email that this domain was reported stolen!
I am going to call them tomorrow morning, but I think the guy that I bought it for sold me a stolen domain, which would explain the good price and the fast sale that he pushed for. I am quite pissed off right about now, I will contact you tomorrow morning, do NOT send Escrow payment!"
After calling Godaddy and finding out that they knew of nothing about this name being stolen, and questioning you on it, this is how you responded:
"Yes I received it at my Registrant email address. I just bought the domain about 3-4 days ago, maybe lessAs soon as I got it I posted it up for sale and now my account is locked and I got an email that it was reported stolen out of the account? I have to call them within the next 3 days, but will call them tomorrow morning.
Well there goes $4k down the drain."
I spoke with my account executive at Godaddy about the name while this was originally going on. He said if the name was stolen, it would have been locked by the registry, and he would have been able to tell that there was some sort of investigation. Although he told me he couldn't say anything specific about another person's account, he said the name was not under investigation by Godaddy. I asked Matt to send me the email from Godaddy so i could show my rep, and he refused to send it. After several months, the name is still in Matt's account with a ppc landing page.
Here is the content of some of our PMs:
Quote:
Originally Posted by EJS
Matt,
I see the name 973.com is still in your name, in your Godaddy accoun and on the same nameservers as before. I would like to proceed with our agreed upon transaction. Has your situation with Godaddy been resolved?
Quote:
Originally Posted by ShytKicker
Hey,
I still can't sell this one.
But I have another NNN.com this week, and I'll be able to sell it for 8k. Are you interested?
Matt
Quote:
Originally Posted by EJS
Why can't you sell it? Was it a stolen name?
What is the other name? How can I be sure it isn't stolen?
Quote:
Originally Posted by ShytKicker
Hey,
No, I don't steal anything, believe me.
Can't tell you the other name just yet because it is pending purchase. Although I'm going to be looking strictly 8k for it. It does not start with a 0. Has no 0's in it.
Matt
Quote:
Originally Posted by EJS
I am not saying that you stole it. You told me that "GoDaddy has locked my account about an hour ago and I received an email that this domain was reported stolen!"
I am wondering if that situation was resolved. Did this happen, or did you realize the selling price was too low based on revenues it was bringing in? Just curious. What ever happened with this?
Thanks
Hey,
Well I rather not talk about it. There's no real revenue with it. It's just that there are some problems I rather not say. Whatever it is or isn't, I can't sell or talk about it.
But this new one I have I will definetely be able to sell.
Matt
He agreed to sell 973.com to me for $6,820 and opened up Escrow.com transaction #382733-0 on 10/9/06 and backed out of this deal on me. I have never said anything to anyone about this. I would still like to buy this name at this price - assuming it isn't stolen.
Here is how all this transpired after agreeing to sell the name to me (I kept all of our PMs and Emails with my Gmail.).
"Hey Elliot,
I have some quite interesting and disturbing news. I am quite angy and puzzled. GoDaddy has locked my account about an hour ago and I received an email that this domain was reported stolen!
I am going to call them tomorrow morning, but I think the guy that I bought it for sold me a stolen domain, which would explain the good price and the fast sale that he pushed for. I am quite pissed off right about now, I will contact you tomorrow morning, do NOT send Escrow payment!"
After calling Godaddy and finding out that they knew of nothing about this name being stolen, and questioning you on it, this is how you responded:
"Yes I received it at my Registrant email address. I just bought the domain about 3-4 days ago, maybe lessAs soon as I got it I posted it up for sale and now my account is locked and I got an email that it was reported stolen out of the account? I have to call them within the next 3 days, but will call them tomorrow morning.
Well there goes $4k down the drain."
I spoke with my account executive at Godaddy about the name while this was originally going on. He said if the name was stolen, it would have been locked by the registry, and he would have been able to tell that there was some sort of investigation. Although he told me he couldn't say anything specific about another person's account, he said the name was not under investigation by Godaddy. I asked Matt to send me the email from Godaddy so i could show my rep, and he refused to send it. After several months, the name is still in Matt's account with a ppc landing page.
Here is the content of some of our PMs:
Quote:
Originally Posted by EJS
Matt,
I see the name 973.com is still in your name, in your Godaddy accoun and on the same nameservers as before. I would like to proceed with our agreed upon transaction. Has your situation with Godaddy been resolved?
Quote:
Originally Posted by ShytKicker
Hey,
I still can't sell this one.
But I have another NNN.com this week, and I'll be able to sell it for 8k. Are you interested?
Matt
Quote:
Originally Posted by EJS
Why can't you sell it? Was it a stolen name?
What is the other name? How can I be sure it isn't stolen?
Quote:
Originally Posted by ShytKicker
Hey,
No, I don't steal anything, believe me.
Can't tell you the other name just yet because it is pending purchase. Although I'm going to be looking strictly 8k for it. It does not start with a 0. Has no 0's in it.
Matt
Quote:
Originally Posted by EJS
I am not saying that you stole it. You told me that "GoDaddy has locked my account about an hour ago and I received an email that this domain was reported stolen!"
I am wondering if that situation was resolved. Did this happen, or did you realize the selling price was too low based on revenues it was bringing in? Just curious. What ever happened with this?
Thanks
Hey,
Well I rather not talk about it. There's no real revenue with it. It's just that there are some problems I rather not say. Whatever it is or isn't, I can't sell or talk about it.
But this new one I have I will definetely be able to sell.
Matt
