I've just be offered good money for my website

salhammers · Nov 9, 2011

I've just been offered a good sum for my website, even though it did not sell on flippa. I've agreed the sale but buyer wants access to google analytics which I can understand.

Thing is, I have multiple sites in my analytic account. How do I prevent him from viewing other sites?

mukeshgbg · Nov 9, 2011

You can make a video of your screen of the sites analytics you want to show the buyer.

BlackHunt · Nov 9, 2011

How about teamviewer season?

salhammers · Nov 9, 2011

Thanks guys and some good ideas. Can I share reports instead from analytics? If you were buying and knew what you were looking for, would the PDF reports tell you everything?

whatisthis · Nov 10, 2011

Just throwing it out there, OP. I've heard of guys getting ripped off on a site sale even when they used escrow.com. Not sayin' this isn't legit, just saying watch your back.

bryanon · Nov 10, 2011

salhammers said:
How do I prevent him from viewing other sites?

When you're in the process of granting them access you can select the sites they will/won't be able to see. Simple as.

CoolAmp · Nov 10, 2011

salhammers said:
I've just been offered a good sum for my website, even though it did not sell on flippa. I've agreed the sale but buyer wants access to google analytics which I can understand.

Thing is, I have multiple sites in my analytic account. How do I prevent him from viewing other sites?

if you block him from viewing those other sites in your analytics, all thats gonna do is scare him away from buying the original site. then again, thats precisely why you dont him to view those other sites in your analytics aint it?

salhammers · Nov 10, 2011

Oh god, now I'm panicking. This guy is just too keen to hand over money into my paypal account. I smell shit all of a sudden.

I have worked hard for three years on this site. Not gonna see it swiped. However, dude could be legit.

Can't take any chances. What's the best way to do this transaction?

bryanon · Nov 10, 2011

CoolAmp said:
if you block him from viewing those other sites in your analytics, all thats gonna do is scare him away from buying the original site. then again, thats precisely why you dont him to view those other sites in your analytics aint it?

How come every 2nd "helpful" post over here is made by someone who hasn't got a clue what they're talking about?

Just so you know - when you grand someone guest access to your GA you're not "blocking" them from seeing any sites. You're GRANTING them access to a particular site / sites and not only will they not see the URLs of your other sites, they won't even know that other sites exist in your account.

salhammers said:
Oh god, now I'm panicking. This guy is just too keen to hand over money into my paypal account. I smell shit all of a sudden.

I have worked hard for three years on this site. Not gonna see it swiped. However, dude could be legit.

Can't take any chances. What's the best way to do this transaction?

Don't do PayPal. Or if you do then make an agreement saying that you will hold the domain name for 45 days after the payment (as that's the deadline for opening a dispute). Escrow.com is only slightly more expensive but 100x safer.

But you should obviously still do your due diligence on the buyer. Google their name, get them on phone, etc. .. in short, make sure that they seem legit. Scammers often enough look/sound like scammers, generally avoid phone conversations etc. etc.

salhammers · Nov 10, 2011

bryanon said:
How come every 2nd "helpful" post over here is made by someone who hasn't got a clue what they're talking about?

Just so you know - when you grand someone guest access to your GA you're not "blocking" them from seeing any sites. You're GRANTING them access to a particular site / sites and not only will they not see the URLs of your other sites, they won't even know that other sites exist in your account.

Don't do PayPal. Or if you do then make an agreement saying that you will hold the domain name for 45 days after the payment (as that's the deadline for opening a dispute). Escrow.com is only slightly more expensive but 100x safer.

But you should obviously still do your due diligence on the buyer. Google their name, get them on phone, etc. .. in short, make sure that they seem legit. Scammers often enough look/sound like scammers, generally avoid phone conversations etc. etc.

Escrow it is then. Never used it but looks the way to go. Big thanks!

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Gide_Gnome · Nov 17, 2011

Just curious, did this end up going well?

salhammers · Nov 19, 2011

Gide_Gnome said:
Just curious, did this end up going well?

Thanks for asking. Well the buyer has transferred the money into Escrow, and the domain name has been transferred to him. Now he's in an inspection period, (5 days) before he confirms all good.

My only worry is that he'll f@ck off with the domain and ftp info and tell escrow he's not satisfied. Then all he needs to pay is a small charge to ecrow for pulling out.

Anyway, day 2 of inspection so we'll have to wait and see. Still don't feel right about this somehow.

meathead1234 · Nov 19, 2011

salhammers said:
Thanks for asking. Well the buyer has transferred the money into Escrow, and the domain name has been transferred to him. Now he's in an inspection period, (5 days) before he confirms all good.

My only worry is that he'll f@ck off with the domain and ftp info and tell escrow he's not satisfied. Then all he needs to pay is a small charge to ecrow for pulling out.

Anyway, day 2 of inspection so we'll have to wait and see. Still don't feel right about this somehow.

He can't just say he's not satisfied and vanish with the domain, cash and files.

Escrow doesn't work like Paypal where you'll almost always lose as the seller.

As long as you can prove you transferred everything per the agreement, you'll be fine. If he's not happy after the inspection period, he'll have to return the domain before getting his cash back.

salhammers · Nov 20, 2011

meathead1234 said:
He can't just say he's not satisfied and vanish with the domain, cash and files.

Escrow doesn't work like Paypal where you'll almost always lose as the seller.

As long as you can prove you transferred everything per the agreement, you'll be fine. If he's not happy after the inspection period, he'll have to return the domain before getting his cash back.

Thanks meathead. That makes me feel better knowing that.

random227512 · Nov 20, 2011

If you do not mind me asking.. how much did you sell your site for?.

Greybeard · Nov 20, 2011

I'm curious as well.

Could you tell us how much the site made per month? I find that most people on flippa sell sites for about 10X the site earned per month.

halifax123 · Nov 21, 2011

whatisthis said:
Just throwing it out there, OP. I've heard of guys getting ripped off on a site sale even when they used escrow.com. Not sayin' this isn't legit, just saying watch your back.

So how'd they get ripped using escrow? I'm just asking...

Hali~!

dvdplus · Nov 21, 2011

[meathead edit: please keep on topic]

halifax123 · Nov 21, 2011

BlackHunt said:
How about teamviewer season?

dvdplus said:
teamviewer is the best

GO SPamm YOur Crap Somewhere else!

Maybe a Mod can get rid of this garbage

That two different posters/clowns spamming this "IRRELEVANT" garbage so far

BAN THEM BOTH!

xstyle · Nov 26, 2011

So OP how has it gone now? did you sell the site and got your part of the deal?

I've just be offered good money for my website

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