pyronaut
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- Dec 9, 2008
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Hi there guys! I'm looking for some help as to what the hell to do about a site I just sold on Flippa. And I guessed you guys would be the best place to ask.
I sold a website on Flippa (For the second time, first time buyer fell through) for $455. So not a lot of money. But enough that I don't reaaalllyyy want to be scammed. It wasn't a flipped site, it was a site I owned for a couple of years but didn't really need to do any work on it. I said in the auction I would only accept Flippa Escrow.
Auction ends. Buyer is someone who has 100% feedback, has Buyer Certification, and has 20+ transactions totaling 28k+. All seems normal.
I start the Escrow process. Buyer immediately cancels it and sends the full amount to my Paypal (I think?). I suppose he can see my email on the auction screen so.. he just sent the money there. The email of his Flippa account DOES NOT match the email on the paypal account. Now I say I think, because weirdly enough, Flippa seems to have made a transaction to immediately withdraw the success fee from my Paypal. I'm not sure how they would do that if the escrow got cancelled. It looks like this :

http://i.imgur.com/gZjoFPc.png
Anyway. When I go to the escrow page, it says "Transaction has been cancelled. No payment will be able to be made. Please do not deliver 'Flippa listing #123456'. If this cancellation is unexpected, please contact support.". And I can't do anything on the page. Ontop of that, I never got an email saying that escrow was cancelled or WHY it was cancelled or who cancelled it etc. Seems like very very poor user experience.
I've messaged the buyer asking why we aren't doing Flippa Escrow. But with Xmas etc, I don't expect a response right now. (He also asked for me to snail mail him an invoice which I found slightly weird... I am literally on the other side of the world from him).
My question is where to from here? I've opened a ticket with Flippa to ask why Escrow was cancelled. But have you guys ever run into this? Where the buyer just decides to not use escrow for whatever reason? The buyer seems to have a lot of legit feedback. So I'm unsure if I should just send him the site anyway....
I sold a website on Flippa (For the second time, first time buyer fell through) for $455. So not a lot of money. But enough that I don't reaaalllyyy want to be scammed. It wasn't a flipped site, it was a site I owned for a couple of years but didn't really need to do any work on it. I said in the auction I would only accept Flippa Escrow.
Auction ends. Buyer is someone who has 100% feedback, has Buyer Certification, and has 20+ transactions totaling 28k+. All seems normal.
I start the Escrow process. Buyer immediately cancels it and sends the full amount to my Paypal (I think?). I suppose he can see my email on the auction screen so.. he just sent the money there. The email of his Flippa account DOES NOT match the email on the paypal account. Now I say I think, because weirdly enough, Flippa seems to have made a transaction to immediately withdraw the success fee from my Paypal. I'm not sure how they would do that if the escrow got cancelled. It looks like this :

http://i.imgur.com/gZjoFPc.png
Anyway. When I go to the escrow page, it says "Transaction has been cancelled. No payment will be able to be made. Please do not deliver 'Flippa listing #123456'. If this cancellation is unexpected, please contact support.". And I can't do anything on the page. Ontop of that, I never got an email saying that escrow was cancelled or WHY it was cancelled or who cancelled it etc. Seems like very very poor user experience.
I've messaged the buyer asking why we aren't doing Flippa Escrow. But with Xmas etc, I don't expect a response right now. (He also asked for me to snail mail him an invoice which I found slightly weird... I am literally on the other side of the world from him).
My question is where to from here? I've opened a ticket with Flippa to ask why Escrow was cancelled. But have you guys ever run into this? Where the buyer just decides to not use escrow for whatever reason? The buyer seems to have a lot of legit feedback. So I'm unsure if I should just send him the site anyway....