Soy completamente nuevo en esto de los dominios. Hace poco compré un dominio y lo dejé aparcado en SEDO. Ayer recibí un e-mail de una empresa de Software que estaba interesada en comprar el dominio. El tema me huele mal de un principio, ya que el dominio de su e-mail era:

@toughguy.net

que te lleva a un servicio que genera alias de e-mails infinitos para evitar spam.

Le respondo que haga una oferta en SEDO y me dice que ya la ha hecho pero que quiere un "appraisal"... así que me huele peor el tema y busco en Google el dominio y el nombre de la empresa TGS y me encuentro que se trata de una especie de estafa para que contrates una valoración del dominio en http://domainsecondhand.com/ y http://www.GreatDomains.com/

Nada, que hay mucho listo suelto, os adjunto los e-mails que me ha enviado por si sirve a alguien.
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Hello,

We are interested in your domain for sale.

Please submit your price for consideration.

Our company is involved in software development/support business.

Now domain invetsing/reselling is just an additional direction of our investment strategy.

Looking forward to do business with you.

Regards,
Brian Meredith
President
TGS Software
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Sorry for delay with reply. I was celebrating newborn child of my sister.

Now let's discuss our deal.

I checked your auction link.

6,000 eur. Ok.


Do you sell domain with a web site or just name?

If just name it's ok. Web site is not necessary.

Have you had your domains appraised already? Can you show me your valuation
certificates? As fas I know it's a common practice to show appraisal of
domain name (even without traffic and web site) before doing business.

Without appraisal I risk to overpay. In other words I won't be able to make
a profit on reselling this name. It's very important for you and me to know
the current market value of your domains.

Of course, we must be sure that you are engaging an appraisal company with
REAL manual service. I heard many appraisal companies often made inaccurate
auto-generated appraisals. I will only accept appraisals from independent
sources I trust. To avoid mistakes I asked domain experts about reputable
appraisal companies in a forum

http://domaintalk.ourplace.com/Archive/857391.htm

Just check this posting.

If the appraisal comes higher you can adjust your asking price accordingly.
I also hope you can give me 10% - 15% discount of the appraised value.

After I get an appraisal from you we'll continue our negotiations.

How do you prefer to get paid: www.escrow.com, www.PayPal.com check or
wire?

Hope we can come to an agreement fast.

Looking forward to your reply.

Dile que lo pague él appraisal....

Gracias por avisar

Desde luego cada día hay más gentuza en internet ¿Que ha sido de mi durante este tiempo? - Softaltec - My 2¢

[ironic mode] le dices que ok, le vas a pagar el appraisal, pero que tu contador solo te ha dado un cheque de 5.000 dolares, que seia bueno que mientras que el envias el cheque por 5000 para pagar el appraisal, el te ayude enviandote en efectivo el valor de la diferencia, o sea, si el appraisal vale 250 dolares, el deberia enviarte en efectivo 4750 hasta que le llegue tu cheque por 5.000 [/ironic mode]
jaaaa, asi funcionan ellos, trata de engañarlos tambien para que vean que sabes sus trucos Offline