In all candor, we would like to think everyone has a good heart and wants to be honorable when selling their website, unfortunately that doesn’t always happen. And sometimes an anxious buyer may be burning of excitement to make a deal but not realize that they may be getting themselves in over their head. Below are a few tips to help you evaluate a website seller.

• Consider using a marketplace where sellers are rated based on their past transactions. For example, on eBay, every seller has a “feedback rating.” The higher the rating, typically the more trustworthy they become. Other marketplaces such as DigitalPoint.com, DNForum.com and Flippa.com offer a similar rating system.

• In marketplaces where prospective buyer’s can ask the seller questions, notice the responses. Is the seller answering a direct question or avoiding a specific question all together. Are the answers one or two words or does the seller respond with thorough answers?

• You may want to avoid a seller from another country. My comment may come off as being cruel or intolerable but I make that from a legal standpoint. Should you have a dispute with a seller and they live in another country, it can make it more legally challenging should a problem arise. That doesn’t mean that everyone from a foreign country is a scammer but you
should be more cautious when dealing with someone who is not from your own country.

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