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Old 12-09-2004, 11:40 PM  
arg
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DailyDiapers, if you haven't gotten the idea from the above comments, just don't seek an appraisal. That's the buyer's job. A "certificate," implying some officiality, really means nothing.

If you want a valuation for your own purposes, because you're concerned that you're selling too low, then put the name on afternic, and tell all the bidders who were interested that they can bid there. The top bid is your real appraisal. Put in a reserve price of $2000 if you don't want to sell it for less than that.

My feeling is that if you've got more than one bidder asking for an appraisal certificate, there's a 99%+ chance that they're trying to scam, and have no serious interest in buying the domain.

I would avoid offers even from probably-well-intentioned people like Raulph. I don't know him or anything about him, and he probably has some knowledge and means well, but domain appraisals in general are extremely arbitrary, and if it's not the buyer doing the appraising, with a real offer, it means nothing.
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