| Lord Aga |
05-27-2005 03:01 PM |
Dombuyer and scamming?
Dombuyer says ...
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I'm going to say one more thing and put this to bed:
There are lots of people both supporting me and slagging me. Thanks to those who have properly condemned AGA as the welcher he is.
As for Slavik, more and more people seem content to defend him, and that's admirable and understandable. Slavik has to me, in the past, and through lots of different deals, been a very good guy. I don't know him personally, but only know him through the deals we've done.
I'd also like to point out that some time ago, when I felt that Slavik owed me a commission on a large-ish deal, he immediately wired the money and solidified my respect for him.
Which is why this current situation had me so upset, and perhaps emotional. There's very little that anyone can teach me about the domain game at this point in my career, when it comes to the psychology and pursuit of good names. Most of all, I see it as a GAME, one in which emotion has little part., and these days, I rarely let emotion enter into any deal or dealing.
Scammers are scammers. Why would I care why they scam or spend my precious time hand-wringing over them or lost deals.
But we all have weak spots, and this particular deal, with a scammer on one side doing a backdoor deal with a decent but very crafty guy on the left...well, this one got me emotional.
More than anything else, it left me in shock. I really do think that Salvik snookered me. I cannot say for certain that he knew about my deal with AGA, but I suspect he did know. However, once he DID know about it, his explanation and ultimate shirking of me sealed my anger.
Many of you don't seem to realize that without escrow.com having a trap door out (which i did not know about after millions of dollars worth of deals), I would have sued AGA for the name, and effectively had the name returned to me from Slavik. It wouldn't be personal, it would be business.
In this instance, I also made the mistake of thinking that Slavik is like me: that he would see that it was me knocking, check with AGA that yes, there was an escrow in process, and no, I had not violated any terms of the escrow, and utimately make a deal with me so that everyone would win.
The fact that he paddled with me, humored me, and then ignored me, made very angry and disappointed. It's not what I would do.
I guess I expected more from this guy. It's not how I would have handled it. I look for a win-win to make people happy.
One more thing: All you armchair domainers who keep saying I was trying to steal the name @25k:
First off, get a life. My job is to get names cheap.
Second of all, Chris Chena sold three identical typos of download(s) for $60k each some months back. I consulted Chris very closely on AGA's name, and we compared traffic and conversions to the names he sold, and we came up with a max purchase price of:
$40k. That means the absolute highest we would ever pay for that name would be $40k. Others with a brain would value it similarly. So my buy price was creeping into the range of what most domainers would pay.
But of course, that's not the point
Bottom line is that all you guys who are busy defending Slavik and talking about how I have no right to implicate him in all this mess:
You're so wrong, and his brilliance is that you still don't understand why.
But I do. And our relationship won't be the same, which is too bad.
Back to business. I just picked up a couple of great names. Who want's em?
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I say..
Stop whining and grow up crybaby.. get your Tax avoiding Antigua corp to sue me if you think that you have been hard done by.
Subject to a quick consultation.. your "scamming" comment above may bite you in the ass once I get past your P.O. boxes etc :) |
