Comments on: Why I’m not selling Upstart Blogger on Flippa

By: Dougymak

Dougymak — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 16:08:38 +0000

Is Flippa having bots post in these comments or what? Firma and Luke sure know how to talk someone into using Flippa with their generic copy and paste responses.

By: firma rehberi

firma rehberi — Thu, 27 May 2010 07:21:59 +0000

Ashley, it’s a shame you’re not interested in listing on Flippa. Although there are plenty of low-end sites being bought and sold, we do also regularly list larger online businesses. Over the last 2 days we’ve seen a $70k and a $90k auction and Retweet.com is just about to sell for over $150k. If you change your mind, let me know.

By: Richard S Davies

Richard S Davies — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:59:53 +0000

Might be worth selling UB as a business? BusinessesForSale.com has a few sites on there, but if you are looking for $100k plus, and you can justify that price, it might be worth listing it there? Might have more chance of finding someone who doesn’t necessarily know a lot about the net, but looking to invest?

By: Ashley Morgan

Ashley Morgan — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:28:15 +0000

That’s exactly the kind of thing that I noticed happening. Lots of people building blogs and then using every trick in the book to offload them as quickly as possible. Again, it’s not Flippa’s fault, nor PayPal’s, it’s just that Flippa seems to attract an awful lot of bad sellers.

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:36:44 +0000

My experience with Flippa hasn’t been good. I bought a small site, paid for it, soon after the site (server) failed, seller attempted or at least made signs that he was working on it. That went on for a couple of weeks, in the end I suggested he perhaps just refunded me and we looked at it again once it was all back up and running. This is when he dissappeared.

Flippa can’t do anything, the don’t hold any money. Paypal won’t do anything because it’s technically a digital transaction – nothing “to hold and smash on the floor” (in their words).

Just one bad experience I know, but still, it leaves a bad taste.

By: Ashley Morgan

Ashley Morgan — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:41:42 +0000

Thanks Luke. I think that my aversion to Flippa comes from some of the people that are so heavily pushing it. Not you, I hasten to add. And that group of people are advocating the sort of domain buying tactics that make my skin crawl. Building websites quickly, just to flip them and make a quick buck. When in reality those quickly built sites are absolutely worthless. In terms of traffic and reputation Upstart Blogger is very old school and I think that an equally old school approach to selling, in order to move things to the next level, is probably the best bet.

However, the fact that you have taken the time to contact me speak volumes about you and your company. Perhaps I was too quick to speak critically of Flippa when, as I said, my real problem is with some of your customers and an issue that no company can control.

By: Luke Moulton

Luke Moulton — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 03:28:56 +0000