What the hell happened to flippa?
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ATuringtest
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- Mar 8, 2019
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eBay ? I never even thought of it until a week ago, then I looked on there and there's loads of Domains for sale or on auction
ATuringtest
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Just started to age a new eBay account by selling books from the charity shops this weekend, then I'll try and flip some cheap domains in a bout a month. Dose anyone know if domains website etc come under the risky categories ?
estimator
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PinguSpy
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Sometime I really dont understand, why big company like to destroy their 'HOT' asset like that.
Do they really have brain to think that logic?
Their current interface is too plain and really mess up.
When I login into my account i get confused, where i'm suppose to see all those listing page?
You will have 2 different accounts inside single website. That does not make any sense for single purpose.
Do they really have brain to think that logic?
Their current interface is too plain and really mess up.
When I login into my account i get confused, where i'm suppose to see all those listing page?
You will have 2 different accounts inside single website. That does not make any sense for single purpose.
Lamelo Ball
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- Oct 7, 2018
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I'm a domainer. Recently I visited Flippa and was disappointed with their design. Not only domains and websites, they have introduced many other things. I heard Flippa admins/mods were involved in insider bidding, especially on domains and inflating the value. There were huge uproar among domainers community. The site is going down fast and domainers are moving away. No more quality domains found there. I don't know about site flipping. But I'm disappointed with them.
GispanShlomi
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- Apr 26, 2019
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Also I had same issues with flippa. I think its over now? Any alternate suggestion?
- Feb 12, 2018
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Site flipping is a joke on flippa, in 2015 selling a starter website would make you about $3500 a sale easily, if you selling a website with very little profit even $6000 was simple to make per sale. In 2018 flippa lost traction, their marketplace crashed and i monitored the listings count weekly, i witnessed over 1000 listing drop off the face within just 2 months, at this point i knew trouble was coming. In 2017 i found flippa bidding on their own auctions and inflating sale prices, today making more than $150 per sale for a starter website is a lot to ask for. The reason i have lost respect for flippa is because today their are playing dirty and thats definitely not my game. You are not allowed more than one account on flippa for a reason, flippa "rewards" new sellers with much higher sales prices than old sellers ( Starter sites only ), if you list the exact same website on a long lasting established account and then list it on a new sellers account, you will find that the new sellers account gets a much higher sale price. The reasons are obvious.
Programmer here, who is interested in creating a new flippa? I can code it, but i cant bring in the business and run the business
Not entirely true since I have 2 accounts on Flippa, it was an issue but i explained the situation.. The rep. Josh i think said he marked the accounts that 1 household is using 2 and thats that. Using both from same browser always.. Since that rep seems to be gone now, not sure how long it will last.. Flippa is full of new ones and the names i dont recognize, Probably came with the new CEO.
I obviously can't prove it but i think that the so called "market crash" was a self-generated issue where they made extremely difficult for buyers to explore the sites listed for sale.
For whatever reason they made it so unpractical that as a long time user, it was hard for me to navigate around to find my own listings.. if it was complicated for me, how complicated it is for a new buyer?
Why i think it was self generated issue is because they now launched the new monthly service, where you need to pay them to get the latest info on the auctions and listings.. If you break the service down, you see it's completely useless.. They want 250 USD per month from buyers to recommend them some auctions based on the buyer preferences... before you could just use the search option for that.
Same goes for the support.. They disabled the option for you to hide any listings that you have sold, you need to purchase priority support to do that in a timely manner.. These are all self generated problems that they offer to solve if you pay to them.
EmpireFlippers will take the lead in here or already has and their rep. is present on this marketplace as well.
whiteblackseo
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- Apr 11, 2015
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Back when most of us used it, navigation and overall UI was much easier to use compared to now. Not to mention they hiked the price to list on there to $200 when before it was like $29 or something like that. It just sucks now (what I think personally).
dustin dubler
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- May 20, 2019
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Sama to.. i can't search website established now!
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The glaringly sad thing is, Flippa IS NOT listening to sellers or the buyers.
Since this quote, "update" I've had to contact support at least 2 dozen times.
Flippa is starting to remind me of how Yahoo ruined the Yahoo Forums and are now ruining Tumblr.
Since this quote, "update" I've had to contact support at least 2 dozen times.
Flippa is starting to remind me of how Yahoo ruined the Yahoo Forums and are now ruining Tumblr.