I have some questions about professional appraisals. I'm looking for appraisals based upon two factors. One, I'm looking for a site that will obviously give me the highest appraisal. Can anybody recommend a site that may have given you or a domain you were interested in buying a rather high appraisal that was higher than it should have been? The second would be, price. Are there any cheap appraisers out there that would qualify as reputable. I'm not talking about some PR1 1 year old domain with a landing page... Something legit, just offers them for pretty cheap. I've seen Sedo for $30 and am not really wanting to put that kind of money into it unless I know my buyer is for real. If it makes a difference, the domain is related to future technology and the initial offer by my buyer was around $5,000 USD. This will be my first appraisal and first domain sale so I don't really want to waste my money if he's not for real, and if he is, obviously, I'd like the highest appraisal possible. Sorry if this is the wrong section, the appraisal section didn't seem to be geared towards these questions rather just getting your site appraised by members here.
Honestly, appraisal services are generally useless as no companies put their money where their mouth is. The best advice you can probably get is by asking for free appraisals in the appraisal sections of forums like DigitalPoint. Sedo/GoDaddy/Any other "professional" appraisal will differ greatly and none of them will offer to broker the domain for you (unless it's a $25K+ domain, usually). If you don't feel comfortable posting the domain in a public forum, you can always PM a couple of people that routinely post appraisals you agree with. I know that I'm still new at DigitalPoint, but I have established myself at other places so you can always feel free to PM me for some free advice backed by stats.