After placing an offer for a domain listed at the Sedo marketplace, I faced the seller’s inflexibility regarding the price.
I don’t blame them, times are tough when the marketplace gets to keep 20% of the proceeds, all while pretending to move a finger.
The seller complained that with Sedo keeping 20%, he could not go much lower for this “valuable” domain name.
Per my request, he provided stats – or rather, a screenshot of some stats with no indication of the domain name or sources of traffic.
The impromptu screen capture depicted thousands of visitors and was linked from Facebook.
When I questioned the seller how is this possible for a web site that has been down for months, or banned even by its prior host per the Screenshots.com thumbnail, to generate such traffic, he vanished in thin air, hiding behind the same anonymity that the domain’s WHOIS provides.
It’s important to do a lot of analysis prior to placing offers based on alleged traffic, especially when the domains aren’t parked at Sedo in order to validate the traffic claims. You might be surprised by the amount of dishonesty you will encounter.
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