Old-school restrictions like this are kind of silly. Hell, the newspapers don’t even have restrictions like that. Imagine if wanted to advertise in a newspaper and they said you couldn’t advertise in other newspapers if you advertised with them? That paper wouldn’t last too long.

Travis

Isn’t that the truth – that everyone thinks their sites are worth something…lol. My point was that if you have a simple startup site with little content, no traffic, and no revenue, then Digital Point is probably a better marketplace because it’s free to list there. But as you’ve pointed out, if your site is worth at least $50, then by all means Flippa is the place to go. Your other tips are spot on as well. Thanks for sharing them with my readers.

Travis

It’s certainly not in sellers’ interests to prevent them listing elsewhere.

It’s a shame Shawn at DP went for a tit-for-tat response and blocked double listing to retailiate.

Grow up, guys! This doesn’t speak well of you as marketplace owners.

Seriously, though, for sites worth beyond the odd $50, Flippa is probably the best place. But there are numerous exceptions. Flippa aren’t brilliant at anything involving a premium domain – SEDO, Namepros, DNF etc., are better. There are some types of sites that Flippa won’t accept (including adult sites). And Flippa certainly don’t have the right audience for $100K+ sites.

So Flippa is best …. for a certain type of site. And that’s it.

Thanks, Justin but my forums aren’t the best place to sell, we aren’t even in the top ten. We aren’t a marketplace as such. But I’d certainly advise any seller to drop in and talk to us before listing their site. Depending on the site, we could advise on the best place to sell, likely market price, how to present the site to maximum benefit etc. And some folk do end up getting cash offers via PM as we do have many buyers with budgets all the way from a few hundred to a few hundred thousand dollars.

Travis

I recommend hanging out on forums like experienced people and nagging the owner until he gives in and buys your site

On a more serious note, a double listing will be a violation of both site’s terms, so you may want to try Digital Point first and then Flippa should that not work for you.

Being new is a PITA sometimes:)

Thanks for the clarification. I should probably say Flippa is #1 among mass market, “public” auction marketplaces.

Regarding your comments to Justin, those are some pretty amazing numbers. Compared to what you’ve experienced, Flippa is no doubt “chump change” compared to them.

Travis

When I was an active buyer there were occasions I tracked broker listings and price drops at businessesforsale.com type sites, and monitored which businesses were selling and how long they were taking to sell. It was very labour intensive.

Sorry, mate, if you want those stats you’re going to have to collect them yourself
My <1% at Flippa is a guesstimate based on those studies and the fact that a good broker can sell more in dollar terms in a week than Flippa can shift all year (some of them have publicly available annual accounts if you wish to verify).

Most buyers of bigger businesses ($50K+) do their own in-house due diligence and contract drafting. A few – very few – come to people like me (and I used to take on only select jobs among those). Yet in one twelve month period I was involved in one way or another with purchases worth a total of about 8,000x the average Flippa sale price. I'm a small player. You won't be surprised to know that for every online property I was involved in there were more than a few where I wasn't.

The Flippa anthill is such a busy place that it's sometimes difficult to appreciate it's just an anthill and it's in the middle of one of the most interesting and biologically diverse savannahs in the world. Thousands of keen buyers and sellers in the $10K+ market would find it very useful if smart guys like you and Travis covered more of THAT market.