SitePoint, the popular marketplace where you can buy and sell entire websites, is turning its marketplace tab into a new standalone site called Flippa, and users are not happy. Having “outgrown its tab” on the information portal for web professionals, the marketplace is launching in public beta as Flippa. In the blog post announcing the launch, the company lists 10 new features, conveniently leaving the most apparent one for last: a new pricing model.
Since comments are closed for that particular blog post, we took a look at the forum entry on SitePoint where the spin-off was announced, and couldn’t help noticing users seem to be quite upset by the move.
While the migration of users’ entire auction history, bidding history and feedback rating was done automatically, several users are up in arms about the fact that they received no notice of the move prior to the actual execution. The new pricing model—which includes a success fee of 5% of the sale price for SitePoint with every successful transaction that gets closed (capped at $499)—is also a topic of lively discussion. Some messages from users:
—This is a really bad move guys. I hate it so much. Now do I have to create a new username / password? You had a good thing going at Sitepoint. Please listen to your customers here and revert. Flippa…. what a stupid name, and stupid design. I doubt I’m going to use Flippa, and prob will start using DP more from now. Guys… seriously… think about what your customers want. We want the old Sitepoint Auctions back.
—Just to add to everyone elses posts: I’ve been using the site point marketplace for along long time and I truly don’t understand why this has been created? The success fee is laughable – 5% of the winning bid? Are you kidding me? I won’t be buying or listing one single site on flippa – what a deadset ripoff, you guys are making Aussies look bad! So the success fee is going to increase prices of ALL sites listed and decrease the number of sites listed. Sounds like a great idea, wish i’d thought of it.
—I don’t like the move to flippa. At first I thought I had a virus taking me to some other site. Need to revert back to the old listing format. Looks like I’ll be spending less time here now.
—I regularly list websites on the SitePoint marketplace – more websites then 99% of the crowd there. When I first got the email I opened the website and I was horrified, the domain horrible, the design worse – many people think that yeah yeah design might be a preference but when it interferes with usability thats a problem especially if your talking about millions of dollars worth of sales. Splitting up the advertise your services / and the websites was also a horrible move. By doing so you nearly nulled the traffic on advertise your services and listing there is now pointless. The website sales traffic is what drove those listings to the point where they were slightly worth the price.
Plenty more where that came from.
I’ll give you a flippa!
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It’s a dick move but they’ve realized they have a pseudo-monopoly. SitePoint’s the only place to go to when you’re selling websites unless you’re willing to tackle the horrors of DigitalPoint.
And branding itself as Flippa is recognising the fact that 99% of the sites sold there are low-value flips.
Not a good move.
Come on now, any expansion is good. It’s just the first move and I’m sure that they will listen to its users. Without users it’s doomed anyway so they have to listen and adapt when something isn’t working.
i cant even navigate through “Flippa”, its so frustrating, the design is bad, the name is bad, the execution is even worse.
Hi Serg,
Any specific suggestions? The default listings page is very similar to what you’ll find on eBay or any number of other Marketplaces:
http://flippa.com/buy-websites
You can click on the stats icon for an “at a glance” view of key stats for the website being sold, without having to clickthrough to the full listing.
if your instinct is to use ebay as your interface goal, then there may not be alot we can say.
I was thinking the exact same thing.
Suggestions? LOL!
You’ve turned sitepoint marketplace to bright blue flippa.. What suggestions really?
i don’t follow this market too much, but what are the big sites for domain name auctions? i thought that sedo and ebay sort of dominated this area…
Flippa is primarily targeted at sellers of small, established websites that generate traffic & revenue as opposed to domain names.
Uh lol small established sites? obviously not, especially with a retarded success fee as well as a bidding fee. I hope this site crashes and burns. Meanwhile, someone point me to another website marketplace other than digitalpoint. Oh wait… shit. !@#$
domain name forums such as dnforum.com namepros.com and domainstate.com all have great domain sales/auctions (and way better stuff than what is posted on ebay.)
Sitepoint is mainly for established websites, and templates.
Flippa is just retarded. The design is such a cliche web 2.0 2008 tired attempt at revamping their marketplace. They could have done a much better job with all their elite programmers.
There are some up and coming site trying to enter the domain market as well, the challenge is building up listings/trust
SitePoint isn’t as big a player in domain name sales, but they’re the most active marketplace for selling a real website. I’ve sold 4 or 5 sites there in the $xxxx range over the past few years, a good way to get something out of a “web 2.0″ service that never went anywhere at least
I’m not happy about the 5% success fee either, but nobody was happy when they started charging listing fees in 2005, and it still grew into the largest website marketplace despite that.
I am concerned this will kill off the traffic to the old SitePoint Marketplace. Aside from the website and domain auctions that have been moved, the old marketplace had classified type listings to advertise services, sell scripts and templates, post jobs available, etc. I suspect a lot of the traffic there was a side-effect of the high traffic to the website sales sections.
The new design, name and pricing structure, well, suck! I am going to dedicate the next two weeks on building a free marketplace to compete against you guys.
talk about fearing change.
New site looks great.
Thanks! I think we definitely lots of room to improve, and we’ve received some very constructive feedback so far that we’re working our way through over the coming days and weeks.
Personally, I’m very much looking forward to replacing the ugly placeholder logo with something more permanent. I think we’ll post the project to 99designs
Why would you even put up that site without it being complete with a proper logo design? You knew all eyes were going to be on Flippa. Everything about it sucks. About 90% of the Feedback you received is bad. You being constantly being positive about it isn’t changing the fact that the design sucks, the fee’s suck. Why would a site like Sitpoint allow that design to go public….they are a leader in website design info and that’s what they come up with…good grief.
I heard that SitePoint was clearly THE place to sell sites. Now it looks like it’s headin to the deadpool, based on these comments.
I have a site to sell. Is Digital Point the correct alternative? Any other choices? Clearly Flippa is a HUGE risk now, and Site Point is not an alternative.
There are a few places. Sitepoint, unfortunately is one of the most popular ones. You can try dnforum.com and digitalpoint.com.
Unfortunately sitepoint is probably the biggest one. You can try sites like dnforum.com, namepros.com, digitalpoint.com
If you’re looking for an alternative, I would also check out http://www.websitebroker.com.
I’ve been a SitePoint member for some time (since early 2000’s).
It has really gone downhill over the years, with the change of the marketplace to the current one, the changes in pricing structure, and now an entirely new site (Flippa.com). The motive is very transparent (greed, not user experience) and I have since stopped using SitePoint to sell my sites. When I stopped selling my sites there I subsequently also stopped posting on the forums and such.
welcome to the world of business
Where do you go to buy & sell websites now?
Nice Jab Matt. Why not just come out and say what you really mean?
dnforum, digitalpoint, and namepros.
EH – agreed, but doesn’t mean it is the best way to do business.
This sucks, i’ve been selling and buying stuff on the SP marketplace since 2004 (even before they called it a “marketplace”) and now they go for this piece of nonsense, the site looks awful, especially since they have so many great designers on board and even books on designing,surely they could have cooked up something better?
I think the stab in the heart is that is looks awfully similar to the WordPress classified theme:
http://wpclassipress.com
I could go on commenting on the negatives of this site but thanks goodness i just got back from watching Transformers 2, that has calm me down a bit
Guys, guys we all in this for the money. Sitepoint has to turn a profit does it not ???
Sure they have to turn a profit. But they don’t have to screw their loyal customer base in the process.
One of the more well known posters at SitePoint estimated that they were making $20,000 – $30,000 a month from the marketplace listings alone, so revenue isn’t a problem. It doesn’t matter what they charge, just that people feel like they are getting a good value for the amount charged.
I was reading thru the comments and stumbled upon this one, nice one:
“@ Mark Harbottle, SitePoint Co-founder:
As s site co-founder, I’m really surprised at your moron-ism. Instead of acting like a jerk with people who made your site and marketplace successful in the first place, why don’t you actually get your head out of your *** and listen to what they have to say!?
If you think that going against those who basically made you, doesn’t have consequences, I suggest you talk to Kevin Rose (of Digg), he can definitely give you a few good tips and pointers… Arrogance can very quickly turn to regret and remorse if you decide to keep your head where it’s at right now…
Bring the old site back for now, while keeping the new one and give users the power to decide which one they want to use. If your new site is truly better then the old one, the users will see it and move there, trust me… we’re not as stupid as you think we are!
You handled this transaction as a bunch of amateurs. You should be ashamed of yourselves!
P.S. I would do this but I don’t have a lot of time right now but I suggest somebody start a group or something, start twittering, blogging, etc with a demand to bring the old marketplace back. Negative press will definitely make this guys re-think their stupid decision. Let’s take the old marketplace back!!”
They are doing the same thing they did with 99designs.com …
I like it, separate site, better design, better site – the old one was simple forum installation. Smart name also.
Thanks for the kind words, though obviously lots of room to improve & tweak the new site going forward as we receive constructive feedback from our users.
There’s also lots of great things coming up, such as verifying site stats via the Google Analytics API so that bidders can have more transparency in what they are buying.
Matt it’s very childish of you to only comment on the positive comments and ignore the negatives. Perhaps once your site starts dyign you will realize that its not about lining your pockets with gold, it’s all about us(the consumers).
Do you really think we’re going to start paying 5% on our hard earned work?
Think again.
The ‘Flippa’ re branding of the website ads has already gotten me to re-list all my websites on forums.digitalpoint.com instead.
I just hate the new layout, the new structure and navigation system. Horror move SitePoint.
Sad that they put the 5% fee and I understand every business has to have a revenue mode, but SitePoint was not doing bad at all in terms of revenue from what I hear. I will continue to sell sites there though.
I honestly don’t see why the change, it looks so stupid. I guess this is the perfect time for me to compete with it, =).
It’s always exciting to see growth in this market, and I think that SitePoint will be very successful with this new format. However, there are other active website marketplaces, including http://www.websitebroker.com.
Active website buyers are searching multiple marketplaces for their next purchase, so sellers can choose the venue that suits their needs best.
Hi Andy,
Thanks for your kind words…
One of the biggest complaints from buyers that we had in the old Marketplace, was just how hard it is to find what they are looking for. With Flippa, we’re trying to make life much simpler.
Buyers can now setup their own custom buying criteria, and automatically receive email notifications when new sites matching their needs get listed.
Nothing is perfect on day #1, but we’re committed to getting there over time!
Matt,
I’m sure you might get some good feedback amidst all the negative criticism. Having a product that is not based entirely on advertising is a smart business model.
There is clearly a need for your product and new site.
I liked when the moved the contests to 99designs, and I think this is a fairly positive move as well.
I just think the name is very unprofessional and will hurt them in the long run. Next time a client wants me to help him sell a site, I’ll tell him to list in on Flippa!
“Wait, what? Flippa? You mean, from 1964? I loved that show! Anyway, so where are you going to sell my site?”
As I demonstrated, the name was not the smartest decision.
I’m primarily a buyer but I occasionally sell stuff too and I think the works fine. You guys did a great job with it and I’m sure you will do what you can to make it even better…
If I may make a suggestion I would make it so the category structure “Established sites”, “Premium Sites”, etc.. is a bit more visible on the home page for users to pick out especially in the early stages..
Thanks for the feedback.
We actually hope to encourage buyers to setup their own custom filters going forward.
What’s “Premium” to one buyer, is “Established” to another. With our custom filters option, buyers can now define exactly what they are looking for, and then screen all listings against their own personal criteria.
We even let buyers setup automatic email notifications, so when new sites get listed that match their buying guidelines, they get an email from Flippa.
I’ve used the Sitepoint marketplace for quite some time (mostly selling, but a tad bit of buying), and since I’m very open to seeing new things and changes, I was quite excited about Flippa at first.
But now, as I prepare to do a bit more business there, and after reading a lot of the valid constructive criticisms…I find that I’ve changed my mind. I have nothing against a business that wants to increase revenue and expand their platform, but man, I already get nailed for what..3.5% on Paypal, and now another 5% for Flippa?
All I have to say – that’s a bit steep, mates
Perhaps a compromise on the percentage or some type of monthly plan for active sellers should be considered. I’m sure something could be worked out that would satisfy the majority?
Get your thinking caps on!
I have to say this must be one of the greatest blunders I have ever seen.
The #1 place to sell a site has just flipped itself into yet another 2-bit money grabbing enterprise.
The beauty of Sitepoint was that it was ‘integrated’ into the main site which supported many facets of web-design and site-building.
Now it shamelessly punt a 5% charge for selling a site and all we seem to get for this is a funky wordpress theme and alot of grief.
Apparently the users asked or this. They wanted to give money away and flippa delivered.
The guys at digitalpoint must be laughing their heads off. Not only has Sitepoint died but all their goodwill has gone with it.
I can understand spinning off the design part of Sitepoint to a new site, this would mostly cater for low cost design orientated jobs but in many minds Sitepoint was the website marketplace.
Stupid on so many levels, just plain stupid.
If Digitalpoint is smart, they should take this opportunity seriously. All they need to do is clean up that Sites For Sale a little. Plus, I like to see everyones iTrader front and center. Plus, you can’t delete comments people leave.
If someone could create a quality marketplace to compete with Sitepoint in the next two weeks, I think they would do well. Sitepoint has been shot and they are severely wounded. Not only has the site been hurt but their brand has been hurt. There is a lot less trust of the Sitepoint brand now. Trust and loyalty are what build a brand and Sitepoint has broken all the rules and will see its impact soon.
I sold two of my websites through Sitepoint both were pretty large sales, one for over a 250k. Both auctions and transactions went smooth. I really can’t stand the new website, but I understand the need for the spinoff. The fact is 90% or more of the websites being sold on it are garbage.
Some advice…. Find a way to isolate and highlight the real websites or it will reflect what people post most (garbage).
I agree with Paul. Digitalpoint must be pooping themselves with joy over this move.
I can’t tell you how many people have been saying on various forums they would be moving to DP, myself included. I will NOT be using Flippa as a buyer or a seller, and I know alot of people who will also not be using it.
This was a stupid, stupid move. They are completely screwing the people who sell smaller sites. $19 listing fee plus 5% success fee with a min of $10 is a minimum of $29 to list a site.
Look at this example:
Start up site with a final selling price of $100.
$19 listing fee
$10 success fee
$9 domain name
$3 in Paypal fees (approximately)
That’s $41 total to make $100. That’s just slightly over 50% profit, and that is IF you build the entire site yourself. If you were one of those sellers who outsourced design or writing, you make nothing now.
For small start up sites, the fees have tripled. TRIPLED!
And they dare say people asked for this? Who?
Hi Kathy,
Thanks for the breakdown.
Our goal is to continue growing out in the higher end of the market — sites that sell for $500 – $25,000+.
If your average selling price is only $100, I would encourage you to think about ways you can move up the value chain, increase your offerings, and get rewarded for it with a higher selling price. Happy to jump on the phone with you and brainstorm some ideas when you have time.
Matt,
While I appreciate what you are saying, it takes days or weeks to create a site that sells for $500+. Some people don’t have that long to bring in money to pay their bills.
Take a certain man I know who flips a lot (or did until Flippa) on Sitepoint. I won’t name him out of respect for his privacy, but he is an older gentleman who is disabled and doesn’t bring anywhere near enough in via his disability to pay his bills. Without selling these small start up sites on Sitepoint, he would be homeless. Quite literally.
I myself have needed this kind of emergency income in the past. Had I needed to create a $500 site I would not have been able to make the cash in time. With a $100 site I could.
There are all types of business models out there and I think Flippa should respect all of them. There is plenty of room for start up sites.
One thing you should note is that not every BUYER can afford $500. Alot of buyers only buy start up sites because they can’t afford established sites and don’t know how to build their own. It’s a bit short sighted to talk about leaving out those buyers as well as the sellers.
I have to agree with Matt here. Creating a site and running it as well cost well over 100 dollars usually (if you include your time and labor). If you site is smaller than that, then it would seem that its more about getting rid of it and getting something in return rather than nothing.
For all the sellers who are getting 50-100 dollars should think about:
1) going somewhere else – people keep mentioning Digital Point
2) selling the site on their own through advertisng such as Criagslist and personal calls
3) Invest further in their website idea and MAKE it worth more
I think more small business owners should look at number 3. When I start selling some of my websites, I hope to get way more thant 50-200 dollars for them, BUT I do realize that is exactly what I will get for them if I don’t do my research, add value to the brand that is the website, and provide a valuable selling point as to why this site is a 10,000 site (or even 100,000).
Flippa is a lousy name and maybe the pricing scheme hurts the guy who was just trying to make a quick buck. maybe Matt can compromise here, but I think some of the people posting need to think like they are in business (because they are) and find ways to get thier product sold. Sometime that means making a better product.
Based on all the feedback, we’ve lowered the minimum success fee to $5 effective last night, to reduce the burden on start-up sellers.
Please check out our blog for a list of other changes & improvements: http://flippado...m.wordpress.com .
Many more to come!
1.) I agree that all the small $50 no effort flips are a clogger and nuisance that devalues the marketplace. Anyone who says it’s too hard to make a $500+ REAL VALUE flip is just making excuses for their laziness.
One membership style site with just 25 – 100 members paying a low $19.99 per month can EASILY be achieved and flipped for thousands.
2.) I’m also not super thrilled about the Flippa move and design.. But it works and Matt’s doing a GREAT job at keeping up with the user suggestions.
Point blank… There is no “better” place to go, so whining about it is useless. Flippa is the king and the king makes the rules. Not willing to play by the kings rules? Ok, that’s fine… Move out of the kingdom and see how well you do without him on your own! (You’ll be back with your tail between your legs)
3.) Matt, I got your back buddy and I’m doing all I can to try and hep teach people how to sell their sites with more value added so we can clean up the marketplace. Anyone who needs help can call me or email me, Google my name and you’ll find my blog… Blog has all my contact info.
Matt,
Quick Question,
If your goal is to continue growing out in the higher end of the market why kill of sitepoint for sales less than $500?
Its a little disingenuous to suggest a seller should develop sites that are in a higher value level when most likely it was the high proportion of sellers/buyers which focused in the low price range (bargains, dead sites, startups etc..) that actually enabled you to make this move to flippa in the first place.
Based on the feedback, we’ve lowered the minimum success fee to $5 for sites that sell below $200 to reduce the burden on sellers of start-ups.
That being said, it’s definitely possible to built great web apps and sell them for thousands of dollars.
Have a look at what’s possible in 48 hours. 5 web apps, built & sold on the SitePoint Marketplace for prices ranging from $500 – $4000:
http://www.site...der-the-hammer/
It’s admirable that Matt would be here in the comments answering these issues.
The site will most likely become very popular. What’s the deal with all the naysayers?
Don’t like it? Build your own. Nice move Sitepoint!
Remind me – which floor of the Sitepoint offices are you on?
Nice try, but I don’t work there. However, I think that people in general are full of sh*t that talk smack about companies and their products.
It seems like the new pricing will not hurt the sellers, it will really hurt the buyers. Sellers will just up their prices by about 5%.
I am a buyer and like the site.. but I really hate the domain name… flippa? It seems like a dumping ground for “flipped” websites.
This is bound to become what eBay’s websites for sale category has become… thousands of crap websites for sale.
I have bought about 5 websites from sitepoint, 2 of them were “stolen”, then quickly sold. I just gave the sites back to the rightful owners. So anything done to make it more transparent I am all for.
Hi Peter,
We hope that the $19 listing fee will discourage the type of $50 and $70 sites that you see getting listed on eBay in droves. Our target market is sales in the $500 – $25,000 range.
The name, Flippa, is more like “Flipper the friendly dolphin” rather than “Flip websites for fast cash”. At least that was the intention… So hard to find a good name these days that doesn’t cost 6-figures.
wow… I have allot to say about this but I will save it for my blog. I will make these 2 points:
1) the name Flippa is just horrible as many here have stated
2) the 5% fee that has a cap to it is NOT a bid deal. Too many people here are claiming that SitePoint is being greedy for asking that much not realizing that it is them who sounds gready for thinking that 5% is allot. 5% of 100 dollars is what? 5 dollars! Add paypal and it ends up being 8.5 dollars out of 100. I will wait for some one to say howthe percentage adds up. Then I will respond “how much did you make from the deal again?”
It seems odd that so many business people who use the site can be so down on the cost structure that has a cap on it. But I am sure if it was THERE business then it would be ok because its worth it, right
Phil, have you even read things?
There is a minimum of $10 on that 5% success fee. That means on a $100 site it would be TEN percent, not five.
If someone is selling a site for $100 and has to pay $10-$20 it doesn’t necessarily mean their profit is $80 to $90. For many people the 10-20% is their profit because the site cost them something to build or they paid someone else to buy it before.
Flipping $100 copies of a template thrown on a new domain as a “website” is not a real business. Welcome to the real world. Build something of value or perish.
If it sells, it means someone is willing to buy it. This means there is value.
Totally agree. If it costs $100 and there are buyers, then there is a market for it and thus its a real business.
btw in this new site is there a way to verify sellers so that the buyers wont be cheated into buying a stolen site?
Yes, we force all auction holders to verify that they have access to the domain name that they are selling by uploading a unique file, that we then verify exists on their domain name.
Matt. Do you really think the site is that great? Now that people are pointing out the flaws, you have to be seeing them.
I can no longer scan the listings like I used to. When I look at the listings now it looks like one big paragraph. Its hard to quickly distinguish between the lines. There is way too much unorganized text. Also, the blue background with the blue text is hard to read. Another thing is the lack of column borders. Why not put in table borders so everything is separated and easy to see like on the old sitepoint marketplace?
Flippa is one mess of a site. Honestly, if I didn’t know it was the real sitepoint, I would think it was one of those sites people sold on the old sitepoint for $99. Its really bad design.
There’s definitely room for us to tweak the design and improve the usability of the site.
If you want to create a mock-up of what you think a listing page should look like, I’d love to share it with the team here.
Flippa sucks. What a ugly name and design. arghh
Anil — are you high? Have you looked at (what I presume is your site) thetechmonster.com? Not exactly high quality there buddy.
Flippa is a memorable and friendly name. I personally like the way it looks, too.
What are some other sites I can use to buy/sell websites? I know about websitebroker.com
What else? How hard is it to make a competitor to Flippa? It cant be that hard. You can use a modified script, and have a site up in no time.
Anyone working on a competitor yet?
We have one called, sitedeal.org
Just opened yesterday, it is free, and people are seeing results!
I’m a disgruntled Sitepoint/Flippa seller and have moved my listings to SiteDeal.org. They just launched, but their listings are free and within a couple of hours of listing, I started getting pms from potential buyers. I’m excited about this new marketplace and hope it prospers. I seriously don’t like being called a whiner and complainer, as the co-founder of Sitepoint did (to all complaining members) in the Sitepoint forum … particularly when I am paying the company a lot of money for it’s services.
As a frequent visitor of their marketplace I was pissed and we opened up a FREE marketplace that is so much better for buyers and sellers.
I think Flippa was trying to weed out the low valued websites, but ended destroying 85% of their market.
We are seeing exciting growth, and one site sold already, with very happy members of a complete FREE auction system.
http://www.sitedeal.org
I didnt like what they did with the flippa site. I am now looking for a new website where i could sell me site without the 5% success price.
WHAT A RIP OFF!
I don’t know what Sitepoint thought before transferring to Flippa. Its looks like a cheap website with no category for different type of listings and the fees is really weird. I think a good alternative to Flippa is http://www.webm...marketplace.com. They are giving free credits to list any site at their marketplace and its a win-win situation for old Sitepoint users like us.
Im sure that the Flippa website will be exceptionally successful whether the selling community likes it or not, however i have never been such a huge fan of sitepoint (as a buyer) because i am based in the UK and want to buy only UK sites (co.uk).
As there are basically no UK specific website marketplaces i have set one up (free) http://www.websitejunkie.co.uk
hey Sam SInton,
Where can I get the script your website or similar to flippa?
I don’t know what people’s problem is. What does it matter what the name of the new site is?? This is not a community for you to hang out in and leave meaningless “dude your site sucks” comments. This is a marketplace and its accomplishing its purpose.
Calling Flippa an upgrade to SitePoint marketplace is unfair. Its a whole new way of buying online properties. Its a whole new site, the functionality of which is beyond what SitePoint could ever offer. It was a smart move to take it to its own domain. The new features are great (like Activity Feed) and are really useful, the bidding process is simple and to the point, the listing format is also easy to scan. There is also an ability to actually grow and improve the marketplace as it has its own engine now.
Those who sell 75-dollar websites are complaining its too expensive to list. Good! I am tired of looking at your garbage listings – hopefully this will clear the clutter. I am tired of listings that sell on nothing more but “massive potential”. Built a real product based on a business model, not on stolen articles. Go sell your sites on another kiddie central DigitalPoint.
But if you DO have a great resource for sale (occasionally they do pop-up), a success fee of 5% is fair if you were to successfully land a qualified buyer. If you can reach that many eyeballs somewhere else – simply use those channels.
I am not sure what’s on Flippa’s next to-do list, but it would be curious to find out.
If you are looking for a free website marketplace to sell you website look at http://sitebin.com
I don’t mind the look of the new site, everything looks odd when it gets a new look, and I’m actually quite happy about the charges if it stops all the 3rd world dross getting through.
But, and this is a HUUUGE but, Flippa? I hate it. You go to all the trouble of creating a sophisticated site, even adding charges to frighten off the little people a cheap site flippers… then you go and call it Flippa so everyone thinks it’s for small scale site flipping, it makes no sense at all… not even in a funny ironic Ausie way.
I monitor flippa daily for quality websites with steady traffic and stable revenue generation; however, it seems after the cutover, quality sites seem to have decided not to list on Flippa.
I decided to wait for the storm to abate before making a comment or two about Flippa/Sitepoint.
I really LOVED Sitepoint and I like Flippa. They have incorporated some great features but they lost me as a customer. The pricing structure is very high no matter what the sale of a website is. It is worth noting 80 % per cent of Flippa business comes from the little people. You know those smaller website.
In development is a brand new Web Auction Site that will allow you to auction like Flippa, but also allow you to sell Adult related website.
I curious to know what the public thinks about that.
From a buyer’s standpoint, I do like some of the features the Flippa.com website offers. However from a seller’s point of view, it can be must costlier. Nonetheless, they seem to have the edge since the traffic is continually building.
I hope that Flippa takes off. I am also not surprised that they upped their fees. Sites selling for over $50,000 were not necessarily common but they did build a marketplace where there is enough interest to both sell and buy sites with that price point.