Any Ideas Where To Sell My Successful Electric Human Transporter Business?

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Hey Warriors,

I have been building a successful online business selling electric human transporters to customers around the world for around 3 years now. We currently offer six different models of electric transporters, e-bikes, and electric unicycles, we also have a very clean new responsive website that receives around 2K unique visitors per month, I have a mailing list with Mailchimp with over 1000 leads and customers and growing which I built over the last few years, I have 100-150 videos on YouTube, two of which have over 1.2 million views, 1 million views, 131K views and another with 30K plus and then of course many others with hundreds of views and some into several thousand views and growing, 1500 Facebook fans and Twitter around 7K followers. We are also about to launch on the biggest online retailer in the US on June 6th, which is Hammacher Shlemmer and they are going to feature one of our products on the home page of their website and on their print catalog that ships out to hundred of thousands of homes. We also have a very clean and nice Responsive website so we can sell to mobile users as well. I'm sure we have more online assets I may be forgetting, but you get the point.

I am having to sell this business because my wife who is a producer here in LA has some BIG projects that are going to be produced and I will need to be working on them with her, so I will have ZERO time to run this online business that I have been building relentlessly for over 3 years now. Can anyone tell me where I should go to sell this business online? I need to sell it quickly and all of its assets because we will be filming in Europe in June, so I have less then 30 days to make this transaction happen.

Are you a business broker or know an online business broker that can find a buyer ASAP? I am willing to share in the profits with you and offer you 10%-15% if you can bring me a serious buyer.

I am going to be very reasonable and negotiable with the price of this business simply because I am not a greedy person and I just want someone who will continue to grow the business and push the GREEN transportation movement to more people around the world as I have done. This really is a very hot market and growing each year. Please post any suggestions here or if you want to chat in private just message me. Thanks for your time and any input.

Regards,

Charley
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  • Profile picture of the author Cobaki
    The only site I can think of is businessforsale.com. I haven't tried buying or selling there but it's a pretty big community they've got.
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  • Profile picture of the author malia
    around 2K unique visitors per month
    Is this a typo?
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  • Profile picture of the author Danceparty
    Hey Charlie, I may be able to broker this for you. PM me your site and quick info please
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    • Profile picture of the author Robert Domino
      Originally Posted by Danceparty View Post

      Hey Charlie, I may be able to broker this for you. PM me your site and quick info please
      lol.. this guy recommends Flippa to sell established ecommerce sites and wants you to have him be the broker for your business...
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      • Profile picture of the author Danceparty
        Originally Posted by Robert Domino View Post

        lol.. this guy recommends Flippa to sell established ecommerce sites and wants you to have him be the broker for your business...
        lol, and you are trolling around the forum because your website did not sell on Flippa, what a shame, maybe try harder next time.
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        • Profile picture of the author Robert Domino
          Originally Posted by Danceparty View Post

          lol, and you are trolling around the forum because your website did not sell on Flippa, what a shame, maybe try harder next time.
          I've bought and sold websites on Flippa.

          You said, and I quote, that Flippa is the "best place" to sell websites. Which is complete misinformation.

          Sure, if you're selling $100 make money online scam websites. Mr. online broker got offended.
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          • Profile picture of the author Danceparty
            Originally Posted by Robert Domino View Post

            I've bought and sold websites on Flippa.

            You said, and I quote, that Flippa is the "best place" to sell websites. Which is complete misinformation.

            Sure, if you're selling $100 make money online scam websites. Mr. online broker got offended.
            Flippa IS the best place to sell websites. If you're selling a business then talk to a business broker, and good luck finding a buyer that understands what a website even is, let alone run one efficiently.

            Seems like Robert over here is a typical failed attempt at Flippa, a dreamer of soaring valuations and high expectations. Your agenda is to hate on everything that has to do with Flippa and everyone who does well with it.

            Like I said before, if you dont know how to use the tool, dont blame it, blame yourself.

            A lot of people seem to get upset when their precious little website doesn't get valuations that a local restaurant for sale gets. Asking for 5 years of annual revenue for a website is absurd when 60% of your business relies on "rankings". Those rankings can disappear in a snap, should someone in google decide to change small variable in their search algorithm. They will call it Monkey update, just watch and see. All your revenue will be wiped out overnight like of those hit by Pandas and Penguins.

            No one wants to fork out serious cash when your "website business" sits on the uncertainty of search engine rankings, banks dont loan money to purchase businesses like that.

            Lets not get upset at each over here over peanuts, and instead focus on Google having too much market share and acting as a gatekeeper to the internet. When that is resolved, your websites will be much more stable and worth a lot more than you THINK they are now.
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            • Profile picture of the author Robert Domino
              Originally Posted by Danceparty View Post

              A lot of people seem to get upset when their precious little website doesn't get valuations that a local restaurant for sale gets. Asking for 5 years of annual revenue for a website is absurd when 60% of your business relies on "rankings". Those rankings can disappear in a snap, should someone in google decide to change small variable in their search algorithm. They will call it Monkey update, just watch and see. All your revenue will be wiped out overnight like of those hit by Pandas and Penguins.

              No one wants to fork out serious cash when your "website business" sits on the uncertainty of search engine rankings, banks dont loan money to purchase businesses like that.
              I don't think this forum is a good place to argue about it so I'll leave it at that. I love how the guy mentions the exact reason why Flippa isn't the best place to sell an established ecommerce business, which I explained previously, but still insists he's right and Flippa is THE BEST.

              Not good. Not okay.

              THE BEST.

              Go look up their sold listings. I rest my case.
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  • Profile picture of the author Gambino
    To be honest, Flippa probably isn't a terrible place to try to sell it. Considering you get pretty decent exposure for $100 or less. I'm sure brokers and investors at least glance over Flippa pretty regularly. Which could put you in contact with a decent broker to sell it.

    I've seen plenty of domains and sites attract quite a bit of publicity from a simple listing on Flippa.
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  • Profile picture of the author Audarah
    Not to butt in on the conversation here, but where IS the best place to sell a website? I guess everyone will have a different point of view on this, but I am wondering about that myself. The question I would have is to the person who buys an online ecommerce store- that store, if it is dropshipping, is selling products from suppliers. So whoever buys that store would have to make some type of agreement with you to get the supplier information (and account) OUT of your name. I was just wondering. I have absolutely NO idea on where to buy or sell.
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    • Profile picture of the author Robert Domino
      Originally Posted by Audarah View Post

      Not to butt in on the conversation here, but where IS the best place to sell a website? I guess everyone will have a different point of view on this, but I am wondering about that myself. The question I would have is to the person who buys an online ecommerce store- that store, if it is dropshipping, is selling products from suppliers. So whoever buys that store would have to make some type of agreement with you to get the supplier information (and account) OUT of your name. I was just wondering. I have absolutely NO idea on where to buy or sell.
      The answer is it depends, which is what I was trying to explain before.

      If you have an established ecommerce business, you will attract more serious buyers if you sell a "business" than a "website".

      What typical investor goes online looking for a website to buy? Mostly make money online types and lowballers. Regular Joes that want to buy a business go through business brokers and look through "business for sale" websites.

      How often do people actually sell websites for 100k+ on Flippa and the buyer pays? Think about it.

      If your website isn't established and you have a few thousand in sales per month then Flippa is fine.
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