After 10 years of using Escrow - This is the worst experience so far After 10 years of using Escrow, doing roughly $1M in transactions, this is the transaction that gave me the most grievances. I was scammed by fraudulent seller and Escrow.com didn't enforce the refund as they should. I don't care what their terms are. This is a big Ls from Escrow.com part. Transaction: #12349981 Fraudulent Seller: Glenn Akers I recently had a really disappointing experience with Escrow.com that I feel I need to share. I was trying to buy a domain name, and the whole thing turned into a mess, costing me not just time but a lot of stress. First off, the payment process was a nightmare. We had a third-party person ready to fund the final payment of the purchase, but Escrow.com just couldn't handle it smoothly. They verified our funder so late in the transaction, only two days before the deadline, which already set us up for trouble. Despite their efforts, we hit roadblocks which led to payment delays (even though we paid it on time, and Wise - the payment provider showed that it arrived on time, before 5PM EST on that day which was before the actual deadline) Escrow.com tried to pin the blame on me, saying I didn't pay on time. That's not cool. The date was March 29, and everything from my end was done to meet this deadline. They even brought up how using Wise (our payment method) can take 2-3 business days, saying we should've planned better. But honestly, Wise made the payment arrived on time, it showed up on their transaction history page. To top it off, there were accusations made about unauthorized email access which felt really out of line. As a customer, I expected support and solutions, not accusations and blame. The support staffs really shouldn't make such legal assumptions. They claimed to know the legal agreements between buyer and seller outside the scope of the transactions? The back-and-forth with them has been exhausting. It's like they don't listen or take the time to really understand where things went wrong. I've tried to resolve this through the BBB, but even that has been a runaround with more demands from Escrow.com for information and clarifications. All I wanted was a smooth transaction and what I got was stress, delays, and a bunch of blame thrown my way. If you're considering using Escrow.com for your transactions, please think twice. My experience has shown me they might not be the trustworthy, efficient service you're hoping for. Fraudulent seller Glenn Akers is already reported to the FBI.

It’s been a month and they’re still… It’s been a month and they’re still holding the money. They keep asking to submit random information and documents without ever actually progressing with the transaction. It seems no matter what you give them they want something else immediately after. You have a better chance of not getting scammed by sending your money to the seller without using a third party service such as escrow. Avoid at all costs and do not ever consider using them.

overseas fund disbursement I had an issue with the overseas fund disbursement due to some mismatches in the beneficiary info, the Escrow team worked it out effectively and professionally, all the way very helpful and genial

Absolutely awful experience Absolutely awful experience. they wouldn't release the money into the account when it was sent for days and days until prompted. Then they appeared confused about how boat transactions work when the boat is transferred at a slip and even when I approved releasing the money to the seller, they refused to release it to the seller. I now have a person I respect angry with me and I have absolutely no recourse, I have a large sum of money trapped by a company which doesn't understand that large vessels are habitually transferred at the slip. They advertise that they transfer boats but they know NOTHING about how boats are transferred and they think that somehow this boat is going to show up at my house on an 18-wheeler or something, idk. This is insane and humiliating and I can't get through to them that the transfer has already taken place in law and in fact. This is in regard to Transaction 13013630. DO NOT USE ESCROW.COM FOR BOATS. Update from 04/23/24: Escrow.com contacted me as you can see below, via Trustpilot instead of their online software. I then had to call them. They are demanding a mutually signed consent of release form from both the buyer and seller--which is nowhere in their descriptions of their process. United States Coast Guard Form 1340, Bill of Sale, OMB No.1625-0027 does not require the signature of both parties, it requires the names of both parties, the signature of the seller, and the signature and stamp of a Notary Public witnessing the transaction. I am having to provide them a consent agreement between myself and the seller on an ad-hoc basis which is over and above the FEDERAL legal requirements for a vessel transaction. Still one star.

They are holding my 1500$ They are holding my 1500$ When I demanded to refund Scammers call support has no idea what they are talking