David Walker, I've had Sedo make me wait as long as 30 days for a payment which would never come, all the while I kept the name w/the server setup I wanted, they have no right to ask you to redirect until Sedo clears those funds. Once Sedo clears and he can't transfer the name because of a registrar (or post-auction) lock, then they can ask you to redirect it to where the buyer wants since it is his already, even if you haven't been paid. It sucks, but I think they can. I'm not defending Sedo, read some of my past posts. Sedo only pays sellers once the domain is in the buyer's account (or in Sedo's holding account) and not until then. But if the payment was cleared and all they're waiting is for the domain to be transferred to a new registrar I don't have a problem redirecting it to where the buyer wants. If they haven't paid you but the payment cleared w/Sedo then it's not a great position to be in, I believe they can instruct you to redirect. I'm not a fan of Sedo's, I stopped parking there ages ago with their crummy revenue and horrible templates and other things working against sellers
ntguy, those 3 months they had you in limbo and the domain was parked w/Sedo, the revenue should've been yours, that's low if they didn't pay you that. Funny about David Walker's case cuz I've been in his buyer's shoes, ie the name was with a lousy registrar, I demanded a transfer but I was told it was in some after-auction lock from Pool.com I think, or a registrar lock, but then Sedo said buyers needed to "take possession" of the domain asap, that's what they did w/me, I even told them I'd let Sedo keep the domain in their own holding account w/that lousy registrar until the lock was over (I didn't want to deal w/that registrar directly no matter what) but Sedo didn't let me. David Walker's buyer must be valuable to them since they're letting him
The longer you stay in this game the thicker the skin you develop, so normally, apart from Sedo removing the 'This Domain May Be For Sale' link on your parked page, and not listing it for sale w/them or their partners during that period, you don't lose much. You can continue receiving offers from other sources while you wait and I always make sure the domain is not parked with Sedo during waits like this. So, if you park a domain at Sedo and you sell it, and nothing seems to happen, simply redirect it to a pkg service that will let you list it for sale (any offers you get you'd tell them there's a sale pending) I've had offers thru my parked page, the WHOIS and even other auction houses while a Sedo deal was pending, and you cannot be forced to park it where the buyer wants until funds clear. Usually the push or registrar transfer can't last more than a few days so there should not even be any talk about the seller redirecting immediately (unless the name is making $100/day) I've never been asked to wait more than 30 days for a Sedo deadbeat buyer, and you don't have to comply. Their contracts allow only so many days before a buyer is entitled to demand cancellation of the deal for non-payment. I've only done this once or twice and it was because the auction results were not what I had expected. But if you sold a name at a good price then you should wait as long as you can, you may not get that price again in years
