It’s one thing to have a substantiated opinion about a company and service, and another to troll endlessly about something you simply dislike.
A recent single incident of an account mix-up at Sedo unleashed the usual trolls, who started beating the drums to the sound of “burn Sedo!” and “Sedo sucks!”
I understand that jealousy compensates for the lack of success, but why is Sedo assaulted so often?
There are bugs and glitches in every system and customer satisfaction varies; but success for Sedo has been its people and company culture. They are the ones that produce results and pass milestones.
The truth is, that some of those that paint Sedo in a bad light have been banned from its marketplace for steering garbage traffic, clicking on their own links or for engaging in other fraudulent activity.
With $1.8 million is sales last week, Sedo continues to break industry records, even in a bad economy.
As for the trolls, they will always feed on any given opportunity to bring someone’s success down.
Because Sedo does suck. In any other item for sale, the saler is required to set an offering price. You can also know who the seller is and communicate directly.
Sedo requires you to jack up your offering price to communicate with the saler indirectly. If the saler is nonresponsive, you can only assume they are unwilling to sale, in which case, the ad for sale is fraud.
There are laws around selling around the world. Sedo is unsure whether it is an auction site or craigslist. In either case, they break the law in the way they conduct business.
Bob – Sedo’s business model works just fine. The article you’re commenting on refers exactly to these cases where someone is unable to function professionally and resorts to profanity or inane public comments.
Anonymous offers ensure that the seller and buyer won’t circumvent the mediator, Sedo. That’s part of the agreement when joining Sedo to list domains for sale. Otherwise, one can set up their own landing page and complete the sale without the assistance of a domain broker. This requires quite a bit of work and the involvement of direct negotiation, third party escrow etc.
Accusing Sedo of ‘fraud’ and of ‘breaking the law’ is exactly the type of trolling the article was written about and you’ve just proven that.