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Originally Posted by signupdamnit
You then took a risk and figured it wasn't that important to minimize your risk. Unless you can prove he outright lied (and even then you should have did your due diligence) I think you should absorb the loss. Anything can happen to organic traffic. If I sell you a site getting 10k a day from Google but three days after you buy it Google penalizes it and you get zero then that is the risk you take because in the reverse situation where it suddenly started getting 100k a day you probably wouldn't let me take it back at cost either. That's the risk you take.
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You obviously didn't read the rest of the thread. Also had it been one site I'd agree, but for all organic and almost all other traffic to vanish overnight across 20+ sites is just not something I've seen happen... ever.
Now you need to remember that this was a low x.xxx deal and as such, huge investigations are not warranted. I asked for proof and got a screenshot and two explanations. He said he'd sold hundreds of sites here. I searched his name here and in Google like I always does before I do business with people (unless we are talking pennies) and I didn't find anything alarming.
I also think his reply here, the fact that he can't explain himself, his use of multiple nicks to "bid" on his own auction pretty much shows what this guy is made of. In hindsight, I could probably have checked things out better and if he'd been just a little bit more forthcoming and would answer my initial questions about my traffic concerns or offered something, I probably would've just cut my losses and moved on.
But when people start to threaten me (in any way) the second I point out something is fishy and refuse to talk about things, I take the gloves off... I don't think I'm being unresonable. I've offered him his sites back, with a free year of domain renewals and am willing to take that loss + the loss of all the time I spent dealing with him. I count 160 e-mails.
LA_Quince: This will hit your partner in Belgrade too since she took the money on your behalf.