Flippa is dead

[ofuture]

leperrine,

You have made a really good amount of money. Can you please give me some tips for selling my onlineearns 3 years old blog.

I really want to sell that for some cash out!

Thanks in advance!

 

[hgear]

Flippa is not dead at all. I do pretty well on there.
I would advise against selling brand new sites on there with no traffic. Everybody on there wants sites with traffic and making money. It's also about presentation.
You have to know the difference between features and benefits. Almost 99.9 % of auctions I see the descriptions are feature based. I can re-write and sell it for more just by changing description...presentation is important

 

[jpatrick85]

I stopped using Flippa and find the most success through the forums.

 

[dollaboy]

Its sad but flippa may be dying. Not only are fees rising, but many more sellers are using fake screenshots.

 

[sasmachine]

I agree, it's getting really difficult to sell anything on Flippa and the prices and fees are getting out of hand!! I've seen some similar sites but you wonder whether they get the traffic that Flippa can!

 

[flipmysite]

Ok I am new to flipping but I have a couple of really good domain names that I need to do something with can anyone point me in the right direction? I can not pm as I just joined today....

Thanks
Ms. J

 

[easy7]

Let's celebrate!

Pop the bottle!:drinking5

 

[OldBike]

its funny how many sellers what to sell brand new sites, with 0 traffic. They do have alots of promises how this site will start to make money really soon, but we all know, thats probably wont happen.

 

[livecrunch]

You can say flippa is dead and probably because you paid $50 for advertising and went unsold

Made over $50K so far , I guess it all depends on how well you sell your "product" and if it's really worth it. I seen people wanting $5K starting bid for site that makes $1K per year? I mean come on!

 

[cinereus]

What are the best alternatives to Flippa for sites earning a steady $1000+ net profit?

 

[bryanon]

What are the best alternatives to Flippa for sites earning a steady $1000+ net profit?

There's not many to be honest.

$5k - $25k deals are, generally speaking, the worse because the price is already too high for forum-based marketplaces and the like, yet too low for most brokers to be interested in it.

 

[darahen2004]

i bought a site on flippa , and it not going as planned at all, i could really use some help as far as redesign, traffic, and what the seller called a wso thread

 

[darahen2004]

There's not many to be honest.

$5k - $25k deals are, generally speaking, the worse because the price is already too high for forum-based marketplaces and the like, yet too low for most brokers to be interested in it.

can you sell the site i made a mistake on buying , i bought it on flippa...im hoping i could actually make a profit..even though i have yet to make a sale...

 

[darahen2004]

its a shame that you cant even trust flippa anymore...i bought what i thought was a website only to find out that it was a template...flippa responds by telling me to hit the dispute button during the 72 hour period , when it took the guy more than 72 hours to even transfer the damn thing...

 

[Shah_G]

You have to be extra careful on flippa now...alot of the new sellers joining are really pathetic, i dont know if they're scammers of just plain dumb.

Yes you can sell the site back on flippa, but you might lose some cash in selling it right away,

 

[darahen2004]

found out that the website i bought is a goddamn template...and im not willing to put anymore money into it...can anyone help me sell my site? yes i bought it on flippa...

 

[mp3man]

Flippa seems to have the traffic it takes for an auction site to be successful. I've had some luck selling there. However, I am a bit suspicious of the bidding process. For example, right before an auction ends, all these bids start to come in, moving the price up. Sure, you'd think that's just people dying to get a site but I suspect it's just some guy using proxies and bidding on his own listing thus moving the price up.
But, in the mix, there are many good sellers and good buyers on Flippa and I have not lost any money there. EBay has turned to crap when it comes to buying or selling sites. eBay is the only place that could compete and beat Flippa if eBay just got a clue and allowed digital downloads and improved its site for site-flipping. eBay could compete by simply having a listing price of say $10 bucks instead of Flippa's $19 plus success fee. What the hell is a success fee anyway? How about a failure fee? If your site doesn't sell Flippa credits you $5 for trying?

 

[J1218]

Flippa seems to have the traffic it takes for an auction site to be successful. I've had some luck selling there. However, I am a bit suspicious of the bidding process. For example, right before an auction ends, all these bids start to come in, moving the price up. Sure, you'd think that's just people dying to get a site but I suspect it's just some guy using proxies and bidding on his own listing thus moving the price up.

That may sometimes be the case, but from my experience, most people always wait til the last minute to place their bids. I've had sites sitting at like $500 with 24 hours left and in the last 6-12 hours, the bidding gets in the thousands from a ton of people placing bids.

I think it's because they want to try to get it for the lowest price possible. People just feel more comfortable bidding at the end when they have a better idea of the price the site is at.

I also think not as many people bid in the middle or beginning because they know they will be outbid anyways, so they just figure they will wait until closer to the end.

This is just my opinion and me speaking from my own experience, but I don't believe there's as many people using proxies to place bids as you would think. Not saying it doesn't happen, but it's definitely not a standard practice on Flippa. At least not from the legit sellers.