Flippa silently raises base listing fee to $29

That's insane. Flippa listing fees are getting out of hand, need to get a serious alternative.

$79 for a front page listing that lasts for a day or so.

Those prices are not crazy if you are listing legit sites that have legit traffic and are making money. The prices sellers get for those sites easily allows them to pay to get access to such a huge marketplace.

flippa has grown and a big part of what you are paying for with the listing fees is access to their marketplace of buyers. They have more buyers so now they can charge more... pretty much business 101.

This really only seriously affects those who have made a business out of selling sites to others. A good percentage of those are not the most quality sites or transparent listings. No harm really done to the core of flippa's customers.

I just hope it cuts down on the number of garbage sites/domains that you have to sift through to find something decent. The hike isn't that high, and it seems like it will hurt new sites more than established ones.

This is getting even more unethical. Someone mentioned about the fee increase as a comment on Flippa's facebook profile, and they removed his post (As facebook page admins can remove comments) without responding to it. They are evidently trying to hide this.

Hi all.

Can confirm we've recently adjusted the listing fee - the first time since Flippa started over 3 years ago and something clearly displayed to all sellers as part of the listing creation process.

In the last 3 years, we've implemented industry-leading features such as Google Analytics and Google Adsense verification, advanced search functionality, escrow integration, listing syndication to our partner sites and tools and, most recently, the introduction of proxy bidding. In parallel, we've increased our customer support team to cover weekends and reduced our response time by 50%.

To this end, we continue to get a record number of sellers along with the most qualified and active buyers anywhere. Be assured we're not now sitting idle - we still have a load of amazing features still coming through later this year.

The main reason that we didn't do our standard blog announcement for this change is that it only impacts sellers who start as listing this week - sellers are made aware of it at checkout which is arguably the point at which it matters. Blog posts go to everyone: buyers, sellers, and everyone in between.

Any price adjustment is only relevant to sellers at the point of listing and this is where the new pricing is displayed (email was not really a strong option here as we have no way of identifying which users are about to create a listing). Apologies if this came across as silence on our part as this was not the intent. Not sure what was being referred to wrt our facebook page but I've just come from posting this there too ...

i think flippa need alternative..

its expensive...

shame they cant have different price points ie $19 fee for site worth upto $100 and $29 for ones over $100 or something like that.

They also put their success fee up to a min of $10 so now for every site you sell you are out $39 before you start making a profit

Good for them.

can anyone tell me what is flippa/???!!!
i really want to make money>..!!!

Very expensive for me.

Any company that is serious about their business let's clients know they are raising their price, it's not brain surgery, just common business practice.

Don't forget about the Warrior Forum - Complete Sites for Sale section. It was actually created in response to the Flippa switching from Sitepoint marketplace and raising their prices the first go round.

You can still use escrow simply by going to escrow.com and submitting the transaction and when you post in Complete Sites for Sale for $20 it stays on the front page for a few days at no additional cost, and it only costs another $20 to bump it when it reaches the third page.

So people who want an alternative without paying $29 + success fees + what is it - $79 now for featured, use the WF. It's become a really busy section.

As soon as possible I am putting a developer or two on this and creating some competition for good ole Flippa, just surprised no one has done it sooner.

That is a great alternative, will check it out now. Thanks sbucciarel!

Hello,

I've just advertised one of my Website Traffic resellers site, I never even noticed the price increase. I just paid the advertising fee, from the sites profit for June.

Maybe I should read how much I'm paying before hitting the payment button.

Matt

They should charge whatever they want to charge. If their service benefits you, buy it. If it doesn't benefit you, don't buy it. If they are priced too high, competition will step in. That's the very nature of business.

Smart move, less junk to deal with.

$29 is not that much to list on the most popular domain/website flipping website on the internet.

Any other good alternatives out there ?

To be honest when I use Flippa I add all of the extras in anyway such as featured listing etc...

If you can't afford the listing fee or are unsure it probably means that you are not confident the site will sell.

Didnt know that - thanks.

I believe that until Flippa Cleans up the mess they have on there with regard to all the game playing that is going on, and if your a serious user on flippa you know what I am talking about, shills, bots, questionable domain names, unrealistic income claims, and a host of other very questionable practices the value of the service is in doubt.

In any business the more you make from your clients and vendors the higher your profits are, this is why Ebay became such a success, initially it was very cheap to list, however they changed the model over time it is still not a bad marketplace, but they really changed it up and so caused a ripple in the market.

Flippa is in a place where they should be at a $9.95 listing with a membership fee for sellers, who are serious about selling on flippa, the idea of increasing the listing fee tells me one thing they are not as successful as they want you to believe.

They are not allegedly well managed or even organized in a meaningful way.

Over all the word I would use to describe the company at this time would be Dubious.

We use Flippa all the time, not much lately tho, but yeah I think the price increase is to filter all those awful sites being listed and all those outsourcing websites that sell for a few bucks.

Maybe it is time for someone to start a "serious" flippa competitor.

I like Flippa for the most part but it's definitely worrisome that they are raising their fees so much, so quickly. It is a large marketplace with lots of buyers but unless you purchase the front page upgrade many auctions end up getting relatively few listing views.

I see more and more quality sellers moving over to doing private sales off of their own websites and lists, so they can avoid Flippa altogether. That trend should increase greatly I think. Also, it's only a matter of time until 1 or more serious competitors show up to give Flippa some real competition.

I would LOVE to see a well-managed auction site that's focused on lower-end sites in the $150-$700 range. The key to success would be to keep fees low but also keep crappy spam site listings to a minimum!

I think Flippa are going to over-step the mark very soon.

People were already pissed when they increased the minimum success fee and that was only a $5 increase.

They do seem to be getting quite greedy. If you don't have a high-end website to sell then basically you can f*** off is what they're saying!

Of course they are a business and there to make money but getting greedy is good for no person or business and it'll bite then on the ass sooner or later. Probably sooner too at the rate they're increasing their fees...

It should be at least $100. Hopefully that will cut down on nasty low-value listings on that site. People rely on Flippa for good value sites worth buying. They shouldn't have to wade through cookie cutter 'made for flippa' sites....

29$ It worth for seller who serious about their business.
If seller have a good website, good traffic.
Many website cost thousands of dollars.

Put yourself in buyer shoes, if you cannot pay fee only $29
how can the buyer trust your website?

The price increase ain't gonna deter those junk sellers. Better make it $100 or more per listing so that most (not all) listings will be those of quality websites. But the dilemma is that if Flippa raises the listing fee too high, people will start looking for cheaper alternatives.

I'd still pay it, It's the front page listing fee's etc I don't like too much for the short time it actually is on front page