In honor of the 4th of July I wanted to let you know about several great deals today:

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In honor of the 4th of July I wanted to let you know about several great deals today:

First off you can save 40% on web hosting today only through my hosting provider, HostGator.com.  If you have been looking to add additional hosting or get some hosting for your websites, then now is the time to do so!  Click here to check out all that HostGator has to offer.

Another great deal that is ongoing is that GoDaddy is now offering $1 domains again.  That’s right, you can get one domain for just $1.18 (that includes ICANN fees).  It’s only good for one per customer and expires after a certain number of uses, so hurry up and make sure you get in on this deal now.  See the end of the post for the promo code to use for this great deal.

If you need some suggestions on a domain to register here are some great picks that were available at the time of this posting:

To get your discount be sure to enter promo code JILLIAN1 at checkout.  Note you must you a credit card for payment to get this deal.

One last deal today…be sure to check out my Steal Of The Day page where you can get today’s great domain for under $15!  Check it out here to see if it’s still available.

Have a happy, fun, and safe 4th of July!

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If you are a subscriber on my email list, then earlier today you received my week’s available domain picks.  These were domains that were currently available to register and could easily be resold for a potential profit!  Here are just a few of the domains I posted:

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If you would like to get my available domain names lists as well as opportunities to win free domains then make sure you have signed up for my email list via the sign up form in the left-hand column of my website.  I just gave away the domain AutoLoans247.net this week so don’t miss out on your chance to win similar domains.

Have a great weekend!

Talk to you later!

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Taking  a break from my daily domains I wanted to give a big “Thank You” shout-out to all of the men and women who serve in our armed forces.  Thank you for risking your life each day to protect our freedom.  Your dedication and bravery do not go unnoticed!

We salute you for all you do!

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Recently, I had an incident with a buyer that I wanted to share with my readers in order to get feedback.  As you may know I’ve been selling domain names on eBay for many years now and I’ve always had the following disclaimer in each eBay listing:

If the domain(s) purchased are not accepted by the buyer into their own Godaddy account within 30 days then all rights to the purchased domain(s) will be forfeited and no refunds will be given. Please accept your domains in a timely fashion. Multiple attempts will be made within 30 days to remind the buyer to claim the domain(s) purchased.

Now my normal process is that once I sell a domain and receive payment for it I will not consider the sell closed until I have received confirmation from Godaddy that the domain has been accepted into the buyer’s account.  Each week I check all outstanding domains that have yet to be claimed and I send a reminder to each buyer to claim the domain paid for.  I will usually continue to do this for about two or maybe three months before I will consider the domain unclaimed and at that point will mark it to be resold.

This current incident began when I sold a domain on eBay in May 2009.  The ending price was around $15.  The buyer paid for the domain and all was good.  I pushed the domain to the buyer but they had not accepted it.  I sent reminders each week and in July (almost two months later) the buyer replied to my eBay message “Thanks for the reminder, I haven’t had time to do it yet.”.  I continued to send reminders until the end of July at which point I stopped reminding the buyer.

Fast forward to May 2010.  I marked this particular domain as unclaimed by the buyer and put it up for resell.  Someone purchased it, I pushed it, they claimed it and all was good.

Now move forward to September 2010.  The buyer that purchased the domain from me on eBay in May 2009 sends me an email asking why he was not able to setup his website with Godaddy?

I responded to the buyer telling them that they had not claimed the domain within the alloted time and I had sold it to someone else.  I also stated that per my terms no refund would be given.

The buyer responds back that it should not matter how long it takes them to setup a domain that it should be “theirs” once they pay for it.  I continue to reiterate my policy and pointed out that they had not claimed their “product” after multiple reminders and even after they had acknowledged it.  In further email correspondence with the buyer they explain how their spouse was in the hospital at that time, they had to support their kids, and work full time, etc. Now I understand that people get into bad situations and I did feel a bit sorry for this person, but the fact is that they never claimed the domain which takes all of about five minutes to do.  In addition, they never contacted me letting me know their situation or to ask me to keep the domain on “hold” until they could get around to claiming it.  Another issue I pointed out was that since they never claimed the domain I had to pay renewal fees to keep the domain so the $15 they paid me was really going for the domain’s “upkeep”.

At this point I have not given the buyer a refund.  Even if I did offer a refund I would only want to give them about 1/2 of what they paid since I had to pay for renewal of the domain.  In addition, the second time I sold the domain the price was only $10.  So all-in-all my profit on this particular domain was quite low.

Now the buyer felt that I came across “angry” at them in my responses and that I should be happy since they gave me money for nothing in return.  If it had not been almost one and half years after paying and the fact that I made almost no profit off this domain then I might feel differently toward the buyer. Had we been talking a huge amount of money (and I know the word huge is relative) then I would probably have a different view on this matter. It would seem to me that since they did not contact me sooner then they did not care about the product they purchased.

Now I’m asking you, my reader, to give me feedback as to what you think I should do?  Am I right in sticking to my policy and not giving the buyer a refund?  Should I make the buyer happy no matter what and refund his money?  I have hundreds of happy buyers and always strive to make my customers happy, but their has to come a point where you be sensible about it.  Am I being too harsh or is this the price of being negligent on the part of the buyer?

You’re feedback is greatly appreciated.  I’m trying to look at both sides of the picture here.  If you have had a similar experience then I would love to hear it.  Please comment on this post or if you don’t want your post read by others you can send me your comment via email or via my contact page on this site.

Thanks for reading and I look forward to your responses.

Have a happy day!

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