Re: Selling Domain

At 12:25 AM 3/27/2003 +0000, you wrote:
>when the cheque clears transfer the domain.

But how does that protect the buyer? Really, the only logical way to do 
this is through a broker, but for such a small sum, it makes no sense.
beno


>----- Original Message -----
>From: "beno" <lists(at)TheWebsons.com>
>To: <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
>Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 11:19 PM
>Subject: Re: Selling Domain
>
>
>At 05:58 PM 3/26/2003 -0500, you wrote:
> >At 05:19 PM 3/26/2003, beno wrote:
> >>At 08:13 AM 3/27/2003 +1100, you wrote:
> >>>This one time, at band camp,
> >>>beno <lists(at)TheWebsons.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> > Hi;
> >>> > I have an opportunity to sell a domain I own. How do I do this in 
> such a
> >>> > manner as to make sure I get the money and he gets the domain without
> >>> > having to *trust* each other?
> >>>
> >>>Simple way would be to draft up a sale agreement and have both parties
> >>>sign. Then if one party defaults the other has legally binding document
> >>>of the sale agreement to fall back on.
> >>
> >>Well...I live in the US Virgin Islands, he lives in Guatemala: what's the
> >>venue? That doesn't make sense in this instance. Any other ideas?
> >>TIA,
> >>beno
> >
> >You are looking for a way to hold money in escrow, that is have a mutually
> >trusted party hold the money until the transfer is consumated.  A bank or
> >lawyer should be able to help you set this up.
>
>Yeah, but we're only talking $150: hardly worth it. I guess my only real
>option here is to trust the guy. To be honest, it's up for renewal and I
>wasn't going to renew ;)
>beno

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