The new Netsol Certified Offer service good?

[mole]

I paid a non-refundable upfront $19 for Netsol to contact the owner of a domain I have been eyeing to test out the service. Notice there is a 5% commission on the sale.

Anyone having luck with the service?

 

[Corwin]

i m wating for the check, but they seems efficient so far.

 

[izoot]

I just sold a name through the service to and am waiting on my check only been a couple days.

No complaint wth the service at this point, I sold a name that I wasn't doing much with and got a
very good price for it. Service is good as I understand they prequalify offers as well. But this is from
the seller's side...Mole I would be interested in your experience as a buyer.

 

[dotNetKing]

I am in the same situation as izoot. Everything is going smoothly so far.

I understand that the payment is by cheques within three weeks of the payment (or transfer). I have great difficulty processing UK cheques and hope they can wire.

One slight "quirk" is that they seem to be transferring the domain name to a Net Sol account in my name first, rather than transferring to a holding account in their name, or direct to the purchaser.

 

[mole]

Mole I would be interested in your experience as a buyer.

My offer of $1,000 just got rejected today after 3 days :-( But yes, they prequalified, pre-charged my card for that amount too, bludy nonsense. Since it is a debit card, the money is wiped off my debit for 7-10days.

 

[izoot]

Sorry to hear it was rejected. You could always counter
Ya I ca see where a debit card would be a pain. But with normal
credit card shouldn't pose an issue.

From a sellers perspective its cool that offers are prequalified,
and that the buyers are at least serious enough to pay $19 to
make the offer and pick up the sales fee. So more for the seller.

I think people will still make low ball offers ( why start high? ) but
at least they are commited enough to drop a few bucks to try.

Thanks for the feedback...I'll post when I close and let ya'll know
how smoothly it goes.

z

 

[mole]

I think people will still make low ball offers ( why start high? ) but at least they are commited enough to drop a few bucks to try.

True, zoot. I was testing if that admin contact email was still alive and not sure if the emails to the registrant was just being eaten up by a spam filter or something since they never repled. Thought an email from Netsol might wake them up. Well, now maybe its because of a low-ball. :-D

 

[NameTower]

I hope it wasn't a .com mole

 

[izoot]

True, zoot. I was testing if that admin contact email was still alive and not sure if the emails to the registrant was just being eaten up by a spam filter or something since they never repled. Thought an email from Netsol might wake them up. Well, now maybe its because of a low-ball. :-D

True, zoot. I was testing if that admin contact email was still alive and not sure if the emails to the registrant was just being eaten up by a spam filter or something since they never repled. Thought an email from Netsol might wake them up. Well, now maybe its because of a low-ball. :-D

I think for names like you are talking about ( mail never returned ) its a good idea with names your serious about. Theres a few I have considered trying this for, and if just one responded and went through it would be well worth the $19. I think way too many of our offers are being filtered these days.

As to being lowball...$1000 is not a terrible place to start. I see way too many " Well I see your not using the name .. I will be good enough to offer $10 for it" . So who knows, with
the number of people farming mail for names ... we're lucky anyone answers at all ... ever.

 

[David G]

......since it is a debit card, the money is wiped off my debit for 7-10days.

I recently learned the hard way (large amount of money involved for almost 30-days!!) to never use a debit card for anything which checks for product price credit confirmation as it seems to actually take the money from the debit card acct immidiately rather then upon shipment as with a normal credit card.

Also, yes, it is amazing how few buyers reply and some who do, simply say no, and do not even bother to make a counter-offer. That happens both at the forums and emails sent via Whois. Sometime I may offer say $300 but really willing to go to $500., the seller perhaps wants $700 but may go down to $500. However, we never come to a deal as the seller is too dumb, insulted or lazy to make a counter-offer. I fear this will happen with the NetSol Certfied Offer service too, of which I just used for the first time today.

 

[oohdale]

I recently learned the hard way (large amount of money involved for almost 30-days!!) to never use a debit card for anything which checks for product price credit confirmation as it seems to actually take the money from the debit card acct immediately rather then upon shipment as with a normal credit card.

Also, yes, it is amazing how few buyers reply and some who do, simply say no, and do not even bother to make a counter-offer. That happens both at the forums and emails sent via Whois. Sometime I may offer say $300 but really willing to go to $500., the seller perhaps wants $700 but may go down to $500. However, we never come to a deal as the seller is too dumb, insulted or lazy to make a counter-offer. I fear this will happen with the NetSol Certified Offer service too, of which I just used for the first time today.

I have learned to accept Paypal only and take the hit upfront when paid. I will just add in the fees accordingly when pricing my domains. I have been took a few times so I will not be taken again by anyone. No matter who they are. Or I will take a check by mail and then I will wait till it clears the bank. Even cashiers checks can be forged. Or the big sales - they can fly here with the cash or I will meet them at the bank somewhere. near here of course. No pay no play with me from now on. Am I bitter? Nope just cautious next time.Well I got that off my chest, - I feel better now.