Hello everyone,

Since I left Afternic and their lander and then moved to Efty. Finally settled for NamePros lander, I started dabbling several external escrow services more extensively because that’s going to be used more frequently than ever before.

I’ve mostly used GoDaddy custom checkout link, Sedo, DaaZ.com and Dynadot.com for selling my domains but recently I came across this issue a couple of times where I sent two different buyers GoDaddy checkout link and both said the amount they see was more than what we agreed upon. It was really not good because the amount I was seeing at my end was the same. I even discussed this with my Afternic rep and he told me that it’s most probably the VAT which is getting added.

Now this was troubling because first of all, GoDaddy should not be adding the VAT. Secondly, even if the VAT is added, there is no breakdown given on the checkout page. This may create doubts in the mind of a buyer that the seller might be sending the domain purchase link by increasing the price and that doesn’t give a good impression. After explaining this to my buyers, we then used another escrow service which went smoothly and no hidden addition of VAT charges. After doing some research I came to know that this VAT is added especially for EU buyers. Anyone from GoDaddy can clarify in this regard if anything I’ve shared is not correct information.

Going forward, I’m planning to use the GoDaddy custom checkout link only if they stop adding VAT or only if the buyer insists on using them by knowing that the VAT will be added to the agreed amount of the domain sale.

Excluding those couple of situations, I had a good experience using the GoDaddy checkout link but this issue must be resolved by them as soon as possible.

I would like to know if any one of you have faced this embarrassing situation with the buyer before?

Thank you!