Not checking trash box in email costs one domain investor $100K (1.Viewing)

For most it goes without saying, you check all your email boxes, not just the inbox. Stuff that is not trash gets into the trash box, stuff that is not spam gets into the spam box. When you are in the business of having email be a vital part of your communications you need to be on top of everything.

Namepros member @DomainNews posted a story of losing out on a $100K sale. They did not reveal the name but there is a screenshot from Escrow.com.

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Go to the source every few days and manually check the marketplaces and escrow services you are a member at. This only takes a few minutes but it can pay off bigtime because a lot of stuff slips through the cracks, and not just for email.

I'm assuming the sale was negotiated on some marketplace or directly, and later set up the escrow transaction. Even if he didn't see the escrow email in junk, would he have inquired or wondered what happened to the sale?

David said:

I'm assuming the sale was negotiated on some marketplace or directly, and later set up the escrow transaction. Even if he didn't see the escrow email in junk, would he have inquired or wondered what happened to the sale?

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It may be a case when he listed that domain for sale at $100K and some one agreed to that amount. It has happened to me.

I get at least a few each month, sometimes a few each week, where people use the Bodis lander with the buy-now price integration through Escrow.com. The buyer has to supply an email to Escrow.com and that starts the transaction, I'm not even sure if Escrow.com first validates the email before contacting me with this new transaction email. Maybe they finally started doing that because it does seem to have slowed down. So I get an email notification that there's a new transaction and that I'm required to choose my payout method (which is very premature at this point). Then the buyer ghosts.

I've asked Escrow.com to stop doing that, no need to notify me or tell me they need me to pick a payout method until they've actually received some damn payment first. Its just annoying.

So chances are probably good that this supposed transaction was never going to go through regardless. This happens to me all the time and I'm betting this was just used as some click bait for an attention seeker.

rlm said:

So chances are probably good that this supposed transaction was never going to go through regardless. This happens to me all the time and I'm betting this was just used as some click bait for an attention seeker.

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I think so too.