I got scammed (Offer to buy your domain name: XXXXXX.COM - domain nameresellers)
 

Hi,

This is a smart way to scam so I do not have 100% prof BUT here is what happened you be the judge (I removed the domain name that was offered to be bought and replaced it with DOMAIN1.COM):

I got these email from a google account :

Well I was thinking to myself I was not thinking about selling this DOMAIN1.COM so lets see how much do these appraisals cost and the cheapest bulk appraisals was offered by NxxxOxxxxx.com (the name was remove) - Well I have worked with sedo.com
and the site accuratedomains.com looks OK with nice PR.
So I did not do check NxxxOxxxxx.com throughly and I ordered a bulk amount of appraisals.
I assumed that is was a solid company since it was written int he email and it was between sedo.com and accuratedomains.com .

I paid and got an appraisal but then when I emailed the buyer I got nothing back. A week has passed. and I get a new email to another admin email of mine:


This time it is the same formated email just another domain and "the suspected scam is now zzzzz2.com"

I looked at both zzzzz2.com and NxxxOxxxxx.com and found that both look a like both had no PR.
I'm so stupid - on the first email I got the NxxxOxxxxx.com domain had the following on the bottom of the front page :
"copyright ? 2009 NxxxOxxxxx Appraisals "
Well I guess I was scammed to believe it was one of the "leading appraisal" companies out there :(

It is a good scam since I got scammed to pay for a service that I get and I have no prof that I got scammed other then my suspicions :(

I wanted to warn you all not to get tricked l did :(
IF you got such emails please share your findings.

ALSO VERY IMPORTANT - the conclusion is go with well know established companies :)
Next time it is only Sedo for me :)

I got the same email a while back, googled their info & a few lines of the email and found out they were scammers.

Your not the first and wont be the last, they have been around for a long time :2 cents:

dodgy fuckers!

Actually the conclusion should be to never get a paid appraisal period. They are almost completely worthless. Sedo appraised a domain I had at I believe $2,150 (many years ago so I don't remember much) and I sold it for $60,000 (which yes was some time after getting that appraisal but I had gotten a $20k offer only about a month or two after that appraisal). In fact, come to think of it, in order to feature it at Afternic which I tried to do once, it got appraised there - they do a low/high and the low was about $2k and the high like $19k, and that was well after I had gotten the $20k offer.

The reason appraisals aren't worth getting right now is that there's no defined system by which to do them. Those companies make their own system up to do it which has no way of working every time. I used to be in the real estate industry and they've had more or less an established system of doing real estate appraisals for decades but there's still a lot of variance and disputes, etc. The only difference is that the most they're ever off is usually about 20% and as you can see, that pales in comparison to being over 96% off, lol.

do a chargeback

duh

Read this thread:
http://www.gfy.com/sell-and-buy-forum/895160-warning-scam-email-offering-purchase-domain-subject-valuation.html

Sorry to hear that BlackElf as your a great guy to do business with.

I actually did a post here on gfy and also in the buy and sell section warning people of this scam but l guess no matter how many times it gets posted someone will miss it ! :(

They also change thier names each month and shuffle the registrars around but it always includes one of thiers and ususally sedo or moniker to give it more creditablity.

Thanks KT you beat me to it ....:thumbsup

That scam is as old as the "help me move some money out of nigeria"scam... :2 cents:

Haha LOL of course its a scam, everyone goes for the no name cheap guy.

I got the same email. Since the middle appraiser looked fishy, I did a quick whois check and saw that the domain had just been registered last month so it was obviously a scam. I then took an estibot appraisal and changed the heading to read Sedo and sent that to them along with a demand for payment and a Paypal invoice just to have some fun with them. Can you do a chargeback?

I think I can do a charge back - never had the need to do one so far ;)

And thank you all for all the comments - it is sad that I missed the posts by CyberClaire and others but such is life :)
it is not a huge deal but I hoped by posting here that some one will be saved :)
It will make my day if at least one WM will learn from this :)

Wow.

How could you actually fall for that shit!!!!!!!!!!1


First of all it's spam.

Just delete it.

Second it's spam that tells you to click a link.

WTF??? You did that!

Then the link asked you to pay.

I mean, when the fuck do you get a clue MAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Goddam!

You know what, I have nothing against you but you are the reason that we all keep getting spam. The spammers know that there is still another fucking fool out there.

So in the end......FUCK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You're stupid and just financed another round of spam....idiot.


:1orglaugh

this is a well known scam and it has been around for ages

http://domainnamewire.com/2008/03/06...am-resurfaces/

Sorry to hear that, thx for the warning!

sortie - before you go out with your Bla Bla read the post :)
There were no links in the email , it is a smarter way to scam with No links !!

Oldest scam in the book.

Ok. Since you didn't let me "get to you", I will apologise for being a dick. :1orglaugh

Sorry.

Very old scam. As mentioned above charge that bitch back...

I always wondered "Who on earth could fall for such stupid, naive scam"
Now I know...

sorry to hear that thanks for the heads up

NP :)

I love your avatar :thumbsup

it was a long time ago already