Selling something in Flippa and unexperienced.

Thanks,

Yeah, there is a website that will come with it.

I have WpTwin + I use a back-up plug-in.

Hopefully it should just be as easy as e-mailing them a copy. I have other websites on my hosting.

[quote=Cataclysmic;5681695]I've sold a website on Flippa before for ,XXX. Let me try to answer your questions...

1 - If I sell it, how will I deliver website?

- You have to transfer 2 things - the domain, and the website (if you actually have a website... or is it just a domain?).

To transfer the domain, just phone your registrar (i.e. GoDaddy). The process is slightly different depending on whether you're both using the same registrar, or whether you have to transfer the domain from one registrar to another. Just phone your registrar and they'll walk you through the process.

To transfer the site, you can create a backup of the site and send them the backup. If you're using Wordpress, there are backup plugins that can help with this (one that a friend of mine recommends but that I haven't used personally is "Backup Buddy"). If the buyer knows what they're doing and you don't, you could also just give them the login info for your hosting account (as long as you don't have anything else in your account, and as long as you have your own backup in case they screw up your site and then back out of the deal or something). That's what I did - gave the buyer my hosting account login info and let him deal with the whole thing. It's more risky, but in my case the buyer had a great reputation on Flippa and I know that he was competent.


2 - Is there a good chance someone will buy, then decline to pay.

- Of course there's a risk that that will happen, but just make sure you don't transfer the site or the domain to them until after they've paid you (or uploaded their payment to Escrow.com). You can read more about how the process works here:

This is excellent sound advice.
I also suggest don´t just throw up a sales ad. Do some research of people who are successful on Flippa and take inspiration from their threads. Provide details and support and offer extras or bonuses to encourage people to buy your site.

Hi Fin -- Ophelie from Flippa here.

Using Escrow is the best way to protect you from fraudulent buyers. In the Escrow process, the seller sends their money to Escrow. Once Escrow has received the money, they (Escrow) will direct you to send ownership of the website to the buyer. Once the buyer is satisfied with the site, the money is released and transferred to you.

We're actually posting a blog post from someone at Escrow in coming days, so keep an eye on the Flippa blog for this!

Hi Temlawn,

A BIN has to be approved by the seller before it goes through, unless the seller has selected the PayPal to BIN option. This option requires a BIN bidder to pay the BIN amount into the seller's PayPal account.

We recommend that sellers review the would-be buyer before accepting a BIN. Once that BIN is accepted, they have the same recourse as for any other non-paying high bidder.

That's something we often see, actually, from legitimate bidders, and this type of sale usually goes through with no issues. The logic here is that the bidder is expecting someone else to out-bid him. A BIN is a gamble on time: if you don't buy it now, someone else might, at any moment. Bidders who really want to win sometimes choose to BIN even when it seems illogical to spectators.