I have to agree with the OP...
I just now recently had 3 active bidders, I pm them letting them know about new sales the site in question had made.
The next morning when I wake up friends send me messages telling me my auction is down, I called Australia "sitepoint support" answered and said they would forward my message to flippa.
I had no idea what was going on, no email NOTHING!
So after 24 hours I get a email letting me know I got BANNED because someone had reported me for PM spam.
So I explain to them it was bidders and they say if I read the terms page they will unban me.
So I email them back and it takes them another 24 hours to unban me and my auction is live again.
My auction ended up a failiure, I looked at the stats for the bidders and they hadn't been active on flippa since I got banned.
So there is a big chance that I couldn't sell the site do to flippa banning me.
I spent a total of $170 on flippa just to list this site 3X $40 for feautured listing.
Funny thing is even when I pay for featured listing and end up on their homepage I still don't get much traffic like 30 views at most in 10 hours or so.
At the top of the flippa site you can read that it says 1,200-2,800 members are online.
I can't help but think that information is fake, it's more like a few hundred members.
I pay $170 and I get banned and I have no idea whats going on.
I've seen one of the flippa owners post at the warrior forum, I'm starting to think flippa is run by greedy noobs that don't care much about customer support.
I've had enough with flippa, spent a total of $400+ on them and no results at all.
I've decided to compete with them, I'll go public about a FREE alternative to flippa soon.
I saw the need for a free alternative and I've been treated badly by flippa so I have no doubt I'll get people to join.
Many people want to sell sites for $30-$100 for these people the flippa $20 listing fee is too much.
Anyway I'm glad I got that out of my system LOL