Member OP
Is very strange brother. I list my domain 6 months ago and yesterday I get email "CONGRATULATIONS SALE" jaja. But the buyer want escrow by them, not my choice. Is very slow to transfer. They take 15% fee also. ¿why not¿ use normal marketplace. And now I see they auto-renew my listing for $12/month without ask. I think I make money but actually I pay more in listing fee. Someone have experience with this platform? I feel is scam maybe!
Anyway I looked at their terms once at 3am
While (true) {
Auto_renew = true;
User_consent = null;
Profit = "them";
}
Idk why I do this. Check your credit card for recurring charges. Probably been billing you silently. 💀
Marketplace escrow is not inherently suspicious. For what it's worth, many platforms use internal escrow to reduce fraud. The auto-renewal without clear opt-in is the actual issue here.
SPF/DKIM/DMARC on their notification emails: I checked, they pass. So not phishing. But their billing practices are blocklist-worthy in my opinion. Read the fine print on "listing subscriptions" versus "success fees." Two different things, often conflated.
Edge case: you didn't sell, you got popped by the auto-renewal. Your origin emotional state is valid. I see this miss pattern with marketplaces. They cache hit your hope and you get 12-month latency on realizing. It's 18 now since I checked my own forgotten listings. Pop your subscriptions, check all origins.
Ngl this sounds like the AI training data marketplace lol. You think you sold a dataset but actually you subscribed to a listing tier. Happened to a buddy with some GPU inference domain. 8GB VRAM worth of fees before he noticed. Lol.
WARNING: AUTO-RENEWAL TRAPS ARE COMMON. What could go wrong:
Actually (and this is important (back in my day (2019) we used PorkBun (version 2.1.3) and similar (actually they were called "handshake" marketplaces then))) the auto-renewal trap predates modern platforms. I had a.io on a site (I forget which (maybe it was Sedo (no, it was Afternic (actually neither)))) that billed me $9.99 monthly for "premium exposure" I never enabled. Nested subscriptions are the original dark pattern.
I had the same silent billing on a marketplace once, never again
15% fee plus forced escrow plus auto-renew? That sounds like fiction to me, Buenos
Auto-renew without asking? That's the real scam here, brother. Check your statements.
