Warren

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I appreciate your comments GW, but as I said, I don't think the court will agree with your viewpoint because in reality that would pretty much invalidate any electronic contract if a person could back out on those grounds, and besides I think the court would see straight through it as an attempt to wriggle out of the agreement to sell.

Anyway, the lawyer is working on it and I will be following his advice. If he thinks there is a reasonable chance of recovery through the courts this is the way I will go, and then I will also seek compensation for at least some of the development costs to date. But its all in the lawyers hands now... Judging from some of the cases he has won recently, and add the fact that he is a member here, and I think I am in the best of hands!

BANNEDfromTV

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I'll be interested to hear (or see if there is an electronic judication) the results of this for reference. I personally don't think you will win this case as there are too many variables. And if the domain is resold prior to the court appearance you would have no recourse with the new owner to obtain the domain from them.

You may get recompense from the previous seller (if you won), however I feel this is a difficult case to win.

Keep us informed though.

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scooter

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If the case was one, would the new owner not be forced to hand it back as he is not the true legal owner, as in fact, the original owner had agreed to sell the same name twice?

Double selling?

A bit like buying a car and then having it taken off you as there was outstanding hp on it. In other words, somebody already legally owned it when you purchased it.

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robert911

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Warren

I know how you feel. It happened to me in reverse

I sold a domain last month for USD $20K on Sedo. The buyer then stopped responding to Sedo, and disappeared into thin air. The address given was that of an attorney in New York, who had no knowledge of the transaction apparently

What annoys me is how little or no vetting takes place on large bids by auctioneer

Its high time that for significant bids e.g. over $5K, the action houses demand a 20% deposit from buyers. And become registrant in escrow from seller prior to sale. That stops people playing games, because they either forfeit or have to go thru with it

Robert

rob

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Had similar buying and selling (£15k deal was one) on Sedo. In some cases it seems Sedo is quite happy to have the user in question maintain an account with them.

I am not sure why a straight ban policy is not in place, if not use some of their size to back a name-shame system to help protect domainers worldwide.

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