Comments on: Introducing Flippa: The New Place to Buy and Sell Web Sites

By: Anonymously

Anonymously — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:43:07 +0000

I think someone (not flippa) is positioned to make a lot of money from the new apparent void in the market.

By: mycolumbus

mycolumbus — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 11:54:23 +0000

This is bad news. I don’t like this new Flippa site, the layout. And where’s the Established vs Premium websites?

Really, I hope you revert back to the old and successful way.

By: Skribblez

Skribblez — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 08:28:29 +0000

I think it'd be better if you got rid of the 5% success fee and instead made the listing fee higher. Easier, less hassle that way. - Neil Sydney Webmasters

By: Scorpiono

Scorpiono — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 12:56:26 +0000

@dannyjohn
I agree, way too much. I’d rather increase the fixed amount for premium websites or so, but don’t take %, it will encourage bypassing the marketplace.

By: Scorpiono

Scorpiono — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:31:40 +0000

I had posted a comment a few days ago, you might have not liked it?

I’ll say it again: The current marketplace is perfect, the new one is too much graphic, web2.0-ish and overall bad usability. Don’t take my joy of browsing the marketplace, SitePoint’s current marketplace is one of the most well developed marketplaces out there.

Thank you,
Scorpiono

By: aspiring

aspiring — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 19:51:35 +0000

I don’t really care about the site design or that it will be at a new url. But, I don’t understand the rationale for the new pricing structure. The problem with the marketplace is that there is too much crap. I look to buy quality sites with decent content or some value to offer. Moving from a fixed to a proportionate fee system encourages people with low quality sites to list their stuff. If they don’t sell their site, they are only out a relatively small listing fee. I understand that you want to raise prices, but why not just raise the listing fees all around? This will increase the quality of site making the site more valuable to sellers and buyers. Besides, the 5% commission is just too high. That is almost what a realtor charges to sell a house and you aren’t providing anywhere near that level of service.

By: Matt Mickiewicz

Matt Mickiewicz — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:54:44 +0000

@RenFromPen: Check out the advanced search option. We encourage you to setup your own custom filters for auctions, and then set yourself up to receive email notifications when new listings matching your criteria show up.

As for Premium/Established/Start-up sites, we don’t actively differentiate between those categories, but you’ll find the “filters” for these three options listed under the “Saved Searches” Button.

By: officmarktrzzc

officmarktrzzc — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 04:21:55 +0000

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http://offic-markt.ru/

By: dannyjohn

dannyjohn — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:51:36 +0000

$19 & 5% is way to much..

By: RenFromPenn

RenFromPenn — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:22:57 +0000

Okay, first off, where are the auctions by category? I don’t see Established Sites, Premium Sites, and Turnkey Sites. It looks like they are all thrown together now.

As for the site itself, it doesn’t feel as professional as the Sitepoint version of the marketplace.

Lastly, I’m surprised that you guys would bother spinning this off. The listings in the marketplace as so terrible that I can’t imagine that there would be a need to create a site solely for the marketplace. I remember when some of the sites in the marketplace used to be quality but now they are pretty much all junk.