Is everyone retarded on Flippa or...?
- Thread starter SkyrocketSEO
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startupvalue
Newbie
- Apr 15, 2014
- 2
- 1
The buyers are not that smart which makes Flippa a gold mine. When I first joined I sold a legit site for $10K. Then a not so legit site for almost the same price. At the time I felt like I mis well keep my real making money sites and sell the others on Flippa. I rely less on Flippa now since I invested the money into my own websites. I was creative too. Had the buyers not knowing they was outsourcing to me, recommended affiliate products, and charged them for web design or SEO/ppc. People been making a lot of money off a newbies before Flippa ever existed. If your a Flippa seller, at least be more creative than others.
wisdomkid
Elite Member
- Jun 20, 2011
- 3,582
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First of all thank you to SkyrocketSEO for bring this on BHW. I really appreciate what he has done for everyone. It is all about the community.
Let's start with an apology to all members, who believe that I joined the forum to insult their views about my web-property. It is a free-speech world, you guys can say anything but all I can do is to provide the real stats and satisfy you.
As asked by several members in PM about the stats video recorded with either Camtasia or Screenr like services. I compiled a brief video of showing each and every stat about GeekSays.
Video: geeksays (dot) com / geeksays-stats (dot) mp4 ~ I am not able to post the URL
I know many of you have already decided and assumed a negative image of me, but all I do is request to all senior members and everyone else in the forum to take a look on the video stat from Google Analytics and Google Adsense. You guys can check out everything in the video. However, if you feel something is missing or you are not satisfied just reply back and I will host a live session for you to come and check everything over TeamViewer.
Since the thread is popping everywhere, it has damaged my business directly and indirectly. Many brokers are already asking me about this thread, and this was the only to clear the mess.
While everything is at peace from my side, I didn't able to understand why SkyrocketSEO approached the forum without even asking about the stats. I was only disappointed because of this, and you can clearly see my anger in previous posts.
Furthermore, some users there tried to bully me on the thread while running a simple search in Google about my username. I don't know why they are trying to do such things without even hearing or completely learning about the story.
Many of you had already claimed lot of things about my blog, such as no value traffic, no search engine traffic, fake traffic, cheap content, but no one able to figure the niche of the blog / website.
If everything was very low-quality then how I managed to get couple of Techmeme backlinks, and if the author was so dull than how he managed to write on other blogs?
Well, I am not here to pick a fight against my online business or myself. You guys have your own reasons to post aggressive replies but I cannot able to understand the fact. In fact, I never expected such thing from high-level forum members.
To anyone that might even consider that this guy is not a scammer. Just look at his facebook. 0 comments and likes on any of his posts. Look at the comments on his site. 0 comments.
A technology site like that would have tons of comments and likes, and would definitely put facebook comments directly on the article.
Your website has no traffic. No comments = no traffic.
Same thing on your twitter. You have 0 retweets and favorites. You're not even smart enough to use hashtags. Why would anyone miss out on the free traffic that hashtags bring if they were getting real money from real traffic? They wouldn't.
It's impossible to fake having millions of UV nowadays. Even if you buy tons of social media action, all I have to do is look through your likes and comments and see if they are real users. I'm sure some people offer real social media spam from real users, but I'm guessing these are expensive as fuck and would never work on the millions of UV scale.
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OnlineHustle
Newbie
- Jan 30, 2015
- 14
- 2
Just wanted to say thanks for the read, this was surprisingly entertaining
Whilst I definitely don't condone scamming, I do believe that anybody who thinks that it's possible to buy a $5,000 per month cash flow for $450 (!) should do some serious thinking about their strategies.
Some scams out there are fairly sophisticated and take some time and knowledge to spot but in cases like the above you don't even need to do any research to understand that something's off, as there's simply no sane reason why anybody would sell their property for an amount that it supposedly makes in three days!
Some scams out there are fairly sophisticated and take some time and knowledge to spot but in cases like the above you don't even need to do any research to understand that something's off, as there's simply no sane reason why anybody would sell their property for an amount that it supposedly makes in three days!
schleprock
Power Member
- Apr 10, 2014
- 745
- 69
I rarely visit Flippa anymore because of the BS. When Flippa first came out (or when I first became aware of them anyway) they used to sell site for between 3-12 times the amount of their monthly profit. Now sites are selling on Flippa for thousands that don't do anything. Blackhat, to me, is working the search engines, it is not working stupid people. I will allow for some "pomp" in marketing but outright faking numbers and otherwise deceptive practices are abominable. Black Hat practicioners are not con-men, we offer something of value for a price, not something with no value for an exagerated price.
azurous
Regular Member
- Jan 30, 2015
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- 75
Im a pretty frequent buyer on flippa because they probably are the biggest broker out there, but.. 98% of the sites are pure garbage. Most of the shit on there are 2 months old sites that claim to have 5-20k traffic and make 500 to 3k per month, unverified analytics or adsense, completely fabricated affiliate sales, and spammy, broken english.
It's literally harder to steal candy from a baby than to sell to some of the retards on there.
I'm even thinking of starting my own brokerage, like empire flippers but still auction-based.
It's literally harder to steal candy from a baby than to sell to some of the retards on there.
I'm even thinking of starting my own brokerage, like empire flippers but still auction-based.
thomaskbrent
Newbie
- Mar 20, 2015
- 5
- 0
good post. I like it very much.
The worst part is that Flippa often doesn't do anything about the scammers.
I've reported about 50-60 auctions [all of them selling sites 2-3 months old with big, direct traffic, and selling for like 20-30% of monthly earnings] and they took down only about 15 of them
I've reported about 50-60 auctions [all of them selling sites 2-3 months old with big, direct traffic, and selling for like 20-30% of monthly earnings] and they took down only about 15 of them
Franklin Hattchet
Senior Member
- Feb 10, 2015
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You can get restricted access to the seller's webmasters account. If they don't let you in then I wouldn't buy it. This is an example of a decent site on flippa.
