Many Internet users are not smart enough and popular domain brokers are using this fact to make money. They offer them cheap appraisal services. But if their customers would have something in their heads they'd understand experts could not make a professional research for $15-$20. These appraisals are made by machines. Easy money for such appraisers as http://www.Afternic.com and several other major brokers that offer cheap auto-generated appraisals. So don't use Afternic.com! In my eyes, all services under $50-$55 are not manual and the results are generated by special scripts. I don't trust auto-generated appraisals. I may recommend you http://www.EasyNameSale.com They provide very fast support and good service. Their appraisals are reasonable and are based on quality of your name and current market prices. They have good reviews too. Manual service is always better. I sent you several of my names  Have you received them? 

Hi Don Williams, 

I will buy those three dot com names we discussed previously. I've alredy sent $4,100 to your PayPal account. Please check it. Hope this is a smart investmenet. I did not hear about these companies before but their appraisals are reasonable enough. Thank you. I offer you to split the transfer costs 50% / 50%. Do you want to use escrow service?

Mr. Rancour,

I see your payment in my PayPal account. We can use Escrow.com. If you want to use Escrow.com you'll have to pay the escrow fee. Anyway, it's nice to do business with you. Thank you very much again. 

Sorry for possible off-topic. Looks like NameSeller is a very experinced domain seller. Earlier I used http://www.Afternic.com and http://www.eBay.com but without success. My names have not received any bids. I don't want to waste my time anymore. Could you be so kind to recommend me a good domain broker. I don't want to waste my time anymore.

What are your thoughts on  http://www.Afternic.com ?

Platzer,

One of my friends had a bad experience with Afternic.com. You can read his open letter at http://forum.icann.org/nsi2001/3AC75D7900000305.html  

This is an open letter I have sent to and posted at Afternic. 

Revisions?? They need to fix the security holes FIRST!! On February 27th, I bought properties.com at the Afternic.com auction. I paid in excess of $60,000 for this domain and Afternic, your escrow agent and register.com handled the entire transaction. I would hope you are familiar with this. When I tried to pay for the extended payment of 10 years I kept having a problem that register.com (Your parent company) kept saying was fixed but was not. I also started hearing rumors of Afternics involvement in selling stolen domains. Then I heard about someone that spent $5,000 at your auction and then lost the domain after the transaction was completed. Afternic has not answered his emails from my understanding or just sends a form reply. Afternic seems very cavalier in trafficking in stolen domains. The fact that Afternic handled the entire properties.com transaction with your escrow agent and then your parent company register.com registered it in my name only to take it away from me 3 weeks later with NO notification, NO reason, NO explanation, No nothing, shows a TOTAL DISREGARD for your customer and NEGLIGENCE on the part of ALL your companies that boarder criminal activity. As of this moment I STILL have no OFFICIAL word and can only speculate like others are. The rumors are flying and it is caused because of the lack of communication with me and everyone at the Afternic community. Seems you can feature "Notable posts" but ignore serious issues. Afternic heavily promoted these domains by featuring them on your home page. You did this with several other domains even AFTER you had reason to believe that they might be stolen. Turning a blind eye does not relieve you of responsibility. Quite the opposite:..It proves negligence and Afternic's reputation is turning into the "Chop shop for domains." Imagine a car dealer selling stolen cars! How long would the dealer stay in business if everyone knows that they sell stolen cars? Matter of fact, as of this writing I have heard NOTHING from any party involved. You guys made your fees and it seems meaningless to Afternic and Register.com that I was hoodwinked out of $60,000 and YOUR COMPANIES profited from that transaction. Would you care to clarify Afternic's position in regards to this matter? I would like something not pulled out of your self serving disclaimers. Something perhaps genuine that shows an understanding of the seriousness of this matter. I am perhaps the #1 buyer and developer of .com domains in the world. I own a total of 3500 domain names headquartered at http://www.erealestate.com/. I buy them from individuals, companies, auctions like ebay, afternic, etc. So far I have spent millions of dollars obtaining these domains. My purchases include such notables as men.com, porno.com, ass.com, voyeur.com, tradeshows.com, bulkemail.com, dirtyjokes.com, widgets.com, homemade.com and most recently properties.com. I am also president of DomainDevelopers.com which is a watchdog group that is forming to alert the public about stolen and hijacked domains along with other issues important to domain owners. Your immediate reply would be appreciated. If I do not get a quick response from this URGENT matter I will have my attorney, Howard Neu, institute legal proceeding that will make this private matter a very public one. I believe the entire credibility of your company is at stake. How you handle this issue may determine the future of Afternic. I know this is a pretty hard hitting letter, but what would you do if you were swindled out of $60,000 and a prime domain that you bought at Afternic?? Would you just lay down? Especially when on your site you CLAIM,"The only safe way to buy and sell domains." So I ask.....what would you do?? 

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After reading this letter I'm trying to avoid this site.