I sold a site but the owner didn't take it.. WTF.

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About 2 months ago I sold a site on sitepoint, the auction winner sent me the money and just disappeared, No Contact, No Nothing.. I still have the site and it's still making me money, so yeah What do I do in a situation like this, (Oh and I billed him for the money so he can't charge back) but Im not a scammer so Im going to keep the site for maybe 6 months to see if he will claim it or not...

What would you do in a situation like this? (Btw it was for a small amount, lets say low xxxx.
 


patrick24601 said:
Keep it forever. As long as it keeps making money. This is a no-brainer to me.
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I know this will sound stupid but the site was making about $300/month and I sold it for like 3-4 months revenue just to buy new clothes, (Yes in highschool)... lol but i guess god has given me a second chance with this site hahaha.
 
johnny- said:
About 2 months ago I sold a site on sitepoint, the auction winner sent me the money and just disappeared, No Contact, No Nothing.. I still have the site and it's still making me money, so yeah What do I do in a situation like this, (Oh and I billed him for the money so he can't charge back) but Im not a scammer so Im going to keep the site for maybe 6 months to see if he will claim it or not...

What would you do in a situation like this? (Btw it was for a small amount, lets say low xxxx.
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I'd hold onto it. Make an effort to find his phone number. If I can't find him and it's still making money...shit, I'll just let it chill and make money.
 
I agree, leave the site up. In the meantime you should put some effort into finding him. I'm not talking hire a P.I. - But you should have the person's information from the payment processor? How was payment made?
 
jdprgm said:
For all you know he could very well be dead or something...
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fuck that would be a bonus I never thought of that method before, sell a site for mid XXXX get the money spend XXX to some bum to wack the guy and pocket the site and the money but you should wait for payment before you kill him off that would just be bad business.

Thats what I talk about good outsourcing haha.
 
It all depends on the size of the transaction -- if we're talking a sale price of $5k plus; I'd say a putting decent amount effort into finding the guy would be the right thing to do. Regardless, I would leave the site up for as long as the situation lasts -- no point in neither party banking that cash. Lucked out, enjoy it.
 
Happended to me about 2 years ago. Sold a high earning site, about 2 weeks went by and It just popped into my head. Emailed him about it and he was as casual as anything, "Oh yeah thanks for that, will get onto it soon... etc etc" - He definitely was a big player.
 
I sold one of my first sites for like $1,000 and the guy took the actual site down and didn't do anything. It went to a parked page and then was dropped.
 
I actually looked up his username and found he had asked a few question on some mercedez benz forums, so yeah he def. is a big player and probably just forgot, LOL.
 
I have had a similar situation on sitepoint. I sold a site, got the money, transferred the domain and now the new owner is just lazy to transfer the site on her hosting account and change the adsense code. I have sent her at least 10 emails and It's been 3 months no replies... I guess the new owner is just lazy to transfer and I am still making money from the adsense on the site as it still sits on my hosting.
 
Perhaps we should form a list of all these lazy fucks with their e-mail addresses. Give em first crack at all our sites. I could handle getting a few thousand bucks for free.
 
If they don't claim it and you've made every reasonable effort to contact them, then that's their problem. Let the site sit until they contact you about it.

Unarmed Gunman said:
I've sold sites before and had the new owners be too lazy to take my adsense code and aff links out. They own the sites and I still collect...Fuck 'em, I got my own kids to teach.
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I sold a site like 9 months ago for low $XXXX and the guy never changed the adsense even after I instructed him on how do it. Still making $$ from it. Haha.
 
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