Futurewizard
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So, this last weekend, I received a bid on a regional domain I had up on Flippa. 100% honesty, this was my first inquiry/lead/potential sale/bid. I'm new.
So, I messaged the bidder as the auction was ending in a few hours. I let him know that I would let it go for the reserve price. As far as etiquette, I'm not sure where this falls, but I wanted to be honest and I didn't want to go any lower. So he responds with a copy/paste of the whois to point out that the domain is locked and negotiation could not go any further.
Of course it is, I wouldn't unlock until everything was securely in escrow. So, I toggled it off, told him to refresh (maybe this was dumb, maybe this is common practice). He upped his bid to 5$ under the reserved, and I accepted.
This was my first sale! I was happy and was excited for this milestone. It was profit! Since then, I've received no response. Escrow.com says that the buyer needs to log in and accept the terms. This was 3 days ago. Flippa support suggested I dispute it, so I've started that process in the hope of getting the buyer's attention.
Re: the Flippa direct message about the domain being locked. Is it common practice to have the seller unlock the domain for proof? It seemed strange and I promptly locked it back up because I'm paranoid. The buyer has no stats and recently joined. No response on Flippa or Escrow. Was this an attempt to get me to transfer early (sans escrow), or am I just really impatient and overthinking this?
So, I messaged the bidder as the auction was ending in a few hours. I let him know that I would let it go for the reserve price. As far as etiquette, I'm not sure where this falls, but I wanted to be honest and I didn't want to go any lower. So he responds with a copy/paste of the whois to point out that the domain is locked and negotiation could not go any further.
Of course it is, I wouldn't unlock until everything was securely in escrow. So, I toggled it off, told him to refresh (maybe this was dumb, maybe this is common practice). He upped his bid to 5$ under the reserved, and I accepted.
This was my first sale! I was happy and was excited for this milestone. It was profit! Since then, I've received no response. Escrow.com says that the buyer needs to log in and accept the terms. This was 3 days ago. Flippa support suggested I dispute it, so I've started that process in the hope of getting the buyer's attention.
Re: the Flippa direct message about the domain being locked. Is it common practice to have the seller unlock the domain for proof? It seemed strange and I promptly locked it back up because I'm paranoid. The buyer has no stats and recently joined. No response on Flippa or Escrow. Was this an attempt to get me to transfer early (sans escrow), or am I just really impatient and overthinking this?