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Originally Posted by Dale Dough
I've decided to go for the $1000 education program. But I'm a dumb card player with no real world financial transaction experience other than bank wires to the Bellagio.
I read that you should make sure that ownership to 'everything relevant' is transfered to you. How does this work? What's sufficient proof? There's no way I would be able to tell the significance about some scanned piece of paper with a signature. How will I know I'm not getting screwed, like 'yeah well that's not my signature' or 'lol pwned I still own the copyrights to that database system you're using!'
I mean I kind of have an 'I'll ship you the money and you ship me the site, takes 5 seconds' mentality, but it prolly doesn't work that way. When dealing with online purchases or poker sites I just assume everything is on the up and up because so far it's been going OK, but I would have no idea how to actually check that mysel.
EDIT thanks a lot all for all this advice by the way, and great blog! Cool that you're willing to share all that.
EDIT2 also I remember you from that ok guys lets set a timeline and all build our own site thing back in the day. Guess it paid off for you to go through with that!
Dale,
The transfer is more complicated than that, but the domain name transfer is very simple and can be done in 5 mins. If you have ever uploaded or downloaded a large file, then you know that some transfers can take some time. This could be the case with the site you purchase, depending on how much data there is.
Two things can complicated this process beyond a simple file transfer.
1. Transferring a database(s) - You'll need to read through a tutorial on the internet about how this is done. For small-medium sized databases, transferring through cpanel/phpmyadmin is fairly simple. There are guides on how to do this, and I think I remember writing about it on my blog at some point.
2. Different server settings - This is a less common problem to run into. Most LAMP servers on the internet are set up similarly. For example, I have run into problems where I needed to install some kind of graphics plugin and another problem where my php settings needed to allow larger file uploads.
My advice would be to try to get the seller to agree to do the transfer for you. He'll know the ins and outs better than anyone, so is probably the best man for the job.
If you actually are serious about this, please post/PM the auction listing you are interested in. $1000 is a lot of money, and I wouldn't want this thread to give any kind of false impression that this is a super easy thing to do.