Is there any hope for my flippa auction?

12 years ago

In my experience with Flippa auctions or any auction for that matter most of the bids come within the last few hours to minutes of the auctions ending. This sometimes extends the auction longer than the created time because two bidders go into a bidding war. Your auction lurkers could be watching the auction to place a bid at the last minute to try and win the auction at a steal. I'm a firm believer in getting fair market value out of an auctione if I've given all details to the intersted prospect.

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sbucciarel

Banned 12 years ago

Most bidders won't bid until the last day because they don't want to get a bidding war started. Some are merely interested in the auction, but will not bid at all.

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ivan4443

12 years ago

listing view :62
people watching:6
13hours to go and still 0 bids, hope you are right about last hours bidding, although the opposite happened to my first auction

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ivan4443 12 years ago

10 hours to go and still 0 bids
looks like i am going to get maximum 25$ for this site
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sbucciarel

Banned 12 years ago

Some sites go unsold. Kind of bites, especially with the exhorbitant fees you pay to list, but that's the reality of it.

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Karen Barr

12 years ago

I don't know what site you're selling, but I will say that in my experience people are slow to buy a site that can't prove any income. Even if you have proof of income, people are still slow to pay more than 6x monthly income.

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mosthost

12 years ago

Flippa is a dud marketplace for most sites. You really need to HYPE your site to hope it sells.

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ivan4443

12 years ago

5 Hours to go and 4 bids - 15$ -havent put a reserve so this might be the final amount i receive. Even if this happens i am not goingt to quit.This time i will persist until i succeed

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Myles Sinclair

12 years ago

In your description on Flippa you make reference to another site - Best SEO Results Apart from the colour scheme, it's exactly the same website as you are currently selling in your signature. I think a lot of potential buyers will be put off by that.

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ivan4443

12 years ago

Originally Posted by Myles Sinclair

In your description on Flippa you make reference to another site - Best SEO Results Apart from the colour scheme, it's exactly the same website as you are currently selling in your signature. I think a lot of potential buyers will be put off by that.

I didnt know i had made this mistake.
So stupid of me

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mosthost

12 years ago

Originally Posted by ivan4443

5 Hours to go and 4 bids - 15$ -havent put a reserve so this might be the final amount i receive. Even if this happens i am not goingt to quit.This time i will persist until i succeed

You paid $39 to sell it for $15? You can't persist too often with that business model.

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ivan4443 12 years ago

Originally Posted by mosthost

You paid $39 to sell it for $15? You can't persist too often with that business model.

Auction still hasnt ended, i hope it sells for more ofcourse
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- sbucciarel Banned 12 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by ivan4443
  
  Auction still hasnt ended, i hope it sells for more ofcourse
  
  Well, if not, you can learn from this auction and do it better next time. Good luck with your future flipping.
  
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  ivan4443 12 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by sbucciarel
  
  Well, if not, you can learn from this auction and do it better next time. Good luck with your future flipping.
  
  Thanks!
  I definetly have a lot to learn, also have to avoid making stupid mistakes like the one in current auction
  
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- mosthost 12 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by ivan4443
  
  Auction still hasnt ended, i hope it sells for more ofcourse
  
  I hope so too Good luck.
  
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  ivan4443 12 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by mosthost
  
  I hope so too Good luck.
  
  Thanks! I need some at the moment
  
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  ivan4443 12 years ago
  
  So how do they do this? Any idea?
  
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MaryPabelate

Banned 12 years ago

I'm waiting for your next post if you recover what you had paid $39 to sell your website, from your bidding moment, I'm also learning!

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SteveFinch

12 years ago

I just viewed your auction, but when I then went to view the site, I was getting page cannot be found. Might be my connection, but I am able to see everything else I've visited. It might pay for you to make sure there is no hosting issue at the moment.

Update:
It's Ok, I can see it now.

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ivan4443

12 years ago

Originally Posted by SteveFinch

I just viewed your auction, but when I then went to view the site, I was getting page cannot be found. Might be my connection, but I am able to see everything else I've visited. It might pay for you to make sure there is no hosting issue at the moment.

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It's Ok, I can see it now.

Wow you scared me for a moment

I also checked everythink is ok

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Lyfe Lyte

12 years ago

Indeed....most people wait until the last minute to bid. Even if you don't sell your site...don't be strayed from this business model. I know people that make 5 figures monthly creating sites then selling them. If this is what your looking at doing...selling the more successful sellers and see what they are doing...why they are selling so much.

This works in any area your trying to make money in...not just online....find the most successful people in that area....and research research!

Lyfe

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ivan4443

12 years ago

hahaha Flippa is such a scam place, just previewed some listings from a couple of successful sellers, and i noticed one common thing- Each one in super many of their listings have a bidder like this one-Bidder 2has bid on 673 listings from 254 sellers. Obviously they have a second account to boost their sales and extend their time.

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ivan4443

12 years ago

And do they get caught ? Or Flippa doesnt care?

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sbucciarel Banned 12 years ago

Originally Posted by ivan4443

And do they get caught ? Or Flippa doesnt care?

They get caught and Flippa does care. There was another discussion the other day on why two sellers were banned. That was the reason they were banned.
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- ivan4443 12 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by sbucciarel
  
  They get caught and Flippa does care. There was another discussion the other day on why two sellers were banned. That was the reason they were banned.
  
  Can you please share link to the thread?
  
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  sbucciarel Banned 12 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by ivan4443
  
  Can you please share link to the thread?
  
  http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ed-flippa.html
  
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ivan4443

12 years ago

Thanks for sharing sbucciarel, some people might really get banned, but i already found 4-5 people that have done this and are still doing it and are not banned. Also they are making some decent money (:
But who knows they will probably get banned if they continue like this...

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ivan4443

12 years ago

Site just got sold for 75$. Having mixed feelings at the moment

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Nick888

12 years ago

How much you were expecting, did you sell any new sites on flippa after this, any pointers you want to make so that it helps others?

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galmiar

12 years ago

I know it is a bit worrying at this late stage but often people don't react and place their bids until near the end as they onviously want to get the best price and aren't too keen on showing their hands first.

At least you have watchers, all you need is two people that really want it to set off a bidding war.

On one of my filpper sites there was only one watcher i knew wanted my site but come towards the ending time and another really keen bidder reared their head. Back then flippa extended each bid by fours hours. The bidders and myself ended up stay up 48 hours waiting for it all to end. I got a great price that day, was very exciting.

Depending on how much your site is worth, you could advertise your listing on the front page of flippa. I usaully get another few watches doing this.

Good luck!

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Gleelea

11 years ago

I currently have a site listed at Flippa for auction. I followed the advice I read over the net that the best way to do it is start the auction at $1 to maximise the number of bids. I have 11 bids in the first four days, all under $200. Then suddenly I accepted the bid which jumped from $120 to $1200. By that time I had 30 people watching my auction. The moment I accepted the latest bid, all 30 watchers disappered. Kind of weird.

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BuyExpiredDomains

11 years ago

Originally Posted by Gleelea

I currently have a site listed at Flippa for auction. I followed the advice I read over the net that the best way to do it is start the auction at $1 to maximise the number of bids. I have 11 bids in the first four days, all under $200. Then suddenly I accepted the bid which jumped from $120 to $1200. By that time I had 30 people watching my auction. The moment I accepted the latest bid, all 30 watchers disappered. Kind of weird.

That is weird. I am selling one of my sites right now as well because I have gotten way to busy with my offline business. I hope things go OK. Good luck to you!

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