Who here is currenting buying or has bought websites before ?
 

If you have some experience in this field I'd appreciate some advice.

When purchasing websites what is the best service to use to make sure neither the buyer or seller gets fucked over ?

https://www.escrow.com looks very good, would you recommend this or a different service

When buying websites did you write up any contracts for the purchase or is that not nessecary ?

How did you transaction happen, did you part with the money first or did the seller part with the website first or did you just use a service to prevent any complications

Also if you've got anymore advice or info on how best not to get screwed when purchasing websites I'd love to hear it

I used escrow.com for a domain sale with great success.

How long did the total transaction take ?

Also anyone got any stories of deals gone bad ?

Bump

I just bought 17 domains using escrow.com and it went very smoothly.
Buyer deposits the money, then seller transfers the domains. Once escrow.com confirms the domains are transferred they release the money to the buyer.

escrow.com it is then :) I'll bump this a few times today for the UK people and then when the US wake up

If I am buying from someone where we know each other, I just get the domain transferred to me and then wire or otherwise speedily transfer the dough. The one time I got badly domain-jacked by someone outside the US, I used escrow.com and, although the seller demanded I cover the escrow.com fees, it was totally worth it.

escrow, always worked out great

Thanks for the replies people, much appreciated :)

escrow.com seems like the way to go

Anyone else care to add some input ?

If someone didn't want to use escrow.com for a website sale and wanted to use paypal instead what would that suggest to you ?