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I had a visitor to the ABSALE directory send an email asking "what is Absale?"

The answer is Absale is an English surname. We are not selling abs or anything!

I have had a lot of problems recently with partnering on web projects. This post will offer general advice on how to avoid basic mistakes when looking for someone to work with.

The main problem is finding a web partner is finding someone who is compatible with yourself. A person whose skills make up for your weaknesses or improve on your strengths. Think of it like this, if your strengths are SEO and traffic building, you want to team up with a web designer or web developer to produce a well-rounded website. 

In a recent episode, I was communicating with a guy who wanted to partner. His online appearance was someone who was doing well on the internet and had experience of creating successful websites. After he sent me a contract that looked like it was written by a 10 year old, I started to do a little research on him. It turned out he was basically creating a false identity and was desperate for someone to pay for his dedicated server. The thoughts of partnership ended right there. If you know some one offline, it may be advantageous partnering with them. Or, ideally, if you have the funds available, go for a freelancer. It works out better in the long term.

Hmm, where to begin with this Triple.com review?

I'll start at the beginning. It was back in October 2007 when I saw triple.com promoting .com domains for $5.55. To test them out I registered one domain – istio.com. You cannot buy things outright on their website, you need to deposit funds. Now, the first annoyance, they deduct PayPal fees from your amount deposited without mentioning that it will deducted. So, my $5.55 became something like $5.20 and I have to deposit more in order to get this $5.55 domain name. Eventually I found out the fees by going to PayPal and added some extra funds. I now have an unusable 14 cents in my account.

 A couple of days ago I sold the domain on dnforum.com. I seemingly, and according to the account history, pushed the domain to the buyer's account. Done and dusted. Or, so I thought. 

 24 hours later and I receive a PM asking where the domain was!? The buyer had not received it. I asked him to check again and I checked to see if they had placed it back in to my account. No sign of it. The next step was to email support and get to the bottom of it. 48 hours later, no reply. So, I call them and there 24 hours phone support turns out to be an answering machine… Next option. "Live Support". Unfortunately there was no life in the live support.

Triple.com is like a ghost town, nobody around. I'm not the only person complaining either. NamePros search shows numerous similar troubles.

My only suggestion — avoid Triple.com