She’s waiting on her payout for her retirement.
Epik owes a lot of money to its customers. I’ve heard stories from several people waiting for their promised cash to arrive. They’re stressed. They’re worried they’re never going to see their money.
In a video posted to YouTube over the weekend, one said she’s getting sick to her stomach and having trouble sleeping.
Kathleen Kalaf says she sold a domain through Epik for $100,000 on September 27 and still hasn’t received her money. She’s counting on the $91,000 proceeds (after fees) for retirement.
Kalaf also posted a review about Epik on TrustPilot.
Epik responded by saying that she shouldn’t leave the review about Epik because it’s actually about Masterbucks:
Hello Kathleen – Masterbucks is who you are reviewing here, not Epik. Please remove and place your review on the appropriate TrustPilot account. https://www.trustpilot.com/review/masterbucks.com You have been paid out to your Masterbucks by Epik which is where the transaction took place. Epik is not holding your funds, you were paid out. You are currently waiting on Masterbucks to process your cashout. Masterbucks is working on processing cashouts daily. Thank you.
I talked about this a bit on my podcast today, but to suggest that Epik paid it out by putting the money at Masterbucks strains credulity.
Note that Kalaf began her transaction after Masterbucks went “down for maintenance.” So the company knew it didn’t have the money available to pay existing customers, but still accepted her transaction and the buyer’s cash, ostensibly to pay off other creditors and put her in the back of the line.
Kathleen Kalaf-you are Very credible not like the Swetha’s case-
Hope you get your money and sue for pain and suffering.
Avoid anything to do with Rob and his hair brained nonsense.
$100K is serious money for a 60 day+ hold.
I always thought the Masterbucks thing was odd.
After seeing numerous crypto companies that used these in-house ‘tokens’ to take customers real cash, I’d give Epik/Masterbucks another 30 days to pay up or file suit against Epik, MasterBucks, and leadership.
She should not be waiting for her money. John Berryhill previously gave her great advice that I hope she is taking,
“ As a reminder, the Washington Attorney General receives consumer complaints and looks for potential patterns of illegal activity
https://www.atg.wa.gov/file-complaint
”
Michael, I am taking his advice.
Jessica at Epik is very high up, and very involved best to press her also
Forget Jessica ,she is in the same ”prayers” club as Rob M.
She would never go against her mentor and job provider.
Gong Show!
The view from the Ivory Tower is fantastic, Rob. Watching Epik collapse is Epic!
Rob is clearly majority shareholder, and knows where the money is going. All this spiritual talk he talks about, he should step you, and do the right thing. He took what a million dollars plus out of Digital Town, his wife runs a medical clinic on the community, how can he do this to everyday people?
Another victim screwed by Rob and his Christian Taliban. Why is it all the hypocritic right wing bottom feeders preach the gospel and live the opposite?
I understand what you are going through Mrs. Kathleen Kalaf, you were the owner of Candida.com, is that right?
My question is if you have kept track of where this domain is that you bought in 2010 and sold on Epik.com on September 27, 2022
Please look at these links:
https://whois.domaintools.com/candida.com
https://sedo.com/search/details/?language=us&domain=candida.com&partnerid=55490&origin=partner
I thought it sold to someone in New Zealand, but as soon as the online sale took place, my communication with the buyer was cut off. I have no idea who bought the domain, but it appears to be showing at Epik?
https://candida.com/ is parked on Epik.com
I saw that! However it is all showing Epik and Anonymize, I can’t see who owns it.
Might as well call it MonsterBucks – because your bucks belong to him.
I’ve sold a domains name even to a publicly traded company. Probably one of the highest amounts in history. NEVER would I use a landing page that was not my own? Having been well versed in finance for decades “don’t ever use any service to buy and sell domains.” He who holds the money wins. You can use “Whois” and “Wayback” which will tell you all you need to know about how to directly email contact the buyer even if the address is private. Sorry, this happened to you but since “you have not been paid consideration the transaction is null and void and outright constitutes fraud.” You have legal recourse PERSONALLY against the CEO. This is the same as a general contractor taking your money without doing any work. Sure you can say work was done but the burden of proof of payment will require banking statements from the company.
Since I believe in free speech I was thinking of bringing my portfolio of TLD names over. After this horrific story, it’s a no go for me at Epik. Now in defense of TOS does it say a 60/90 day hold back of funds for fraud? If it does then all might be ok. If I were a buyer I’d want both sides covered. In any event its all about transparency NEVER about deflection. It seems like kicking the can to another party.
get on this link fast
https://www.icann.org/compliance/complaint
Hope you win your domain back.
“caveat venditor,” meaning “let the seller beware and “Caveat emptor,” buyer beware. Everyone better learn fast!
Thank you so much for the information Mike.
no thank you.
I am with EPIK for many years. I am experiencing the following EPIK issues at this time:
1. EPIK does not register or renew domains even though they take the money out of your account right away and send the receipt showing domains have been registered.
2. You have to spend days begging the Epik support to make it right and they keeps saying their engineers are working on the issue.
3. EPIK now saying they do NOT cash out the money in the “in-store” credits. I have high $$$ in this and they refuse to cash out.
4. I have around mid-four figure ($$$$) in the “Master Bucks” account and requested a withdrawal on Jan 16. I verified the security etc and it’s still in pending. I need money to pay health expenses urgently. I checked with Epik support and they said they it’s accounting have not cleared funds for people who are ahead of me and told me to just keep waiting indefinitely for it’s accounting to review/send funds.
5. My rate dot-com registration/renewal bulk account rate was set at $8.03 which is now set at $9.99 without even informing me or sending any email notification etc.
Do you have similar issues at EPIK?
Please advise what should I do to get my funds totaling about $5k.
Note: Andrew, please interview EPIK CEO to get some answers.
Thank you.
@RKB It is true about the renewals and the engineers I contacted support and after three days they were renewed for 2024 today I have renewed and everything is correct.
The rest I feel for you, but I have already written in another comment that I do not sell from Epik, there are many safer marketplaces.
You might have had good luck renewing, but I have $300 in domain renewals which did not go through, and for which I have not received a refund or even their currently worthless store credit.
I’m moving my 500 domains out as fast as I can.
-J
In 15 years as a Domainer, I would never risk $300 on a troubled company.
You do what suits you best, I wish you luck.