Has Flippa Become More Expensive And Less Profitable?

Websites are selling for less in general right now. Mainly just because the economy worldwide is struggling. Honestly though, if $10 is going to make the difference on your profit from selling a website, that website may not be worth selling anyway.

If you don't like their fees, you don't have to list with them. They're not in the business of making as little money as possible.

Personally I think Flippa are going in the right direction.
A $10 increase in listing fees isn't going to hurt the bottom line of only those people who are selling $100 websites - and quite honestly, 1 out of 100 sites like this provides any actual value (the rest are just targeting gullible buyers and/or are a borderline scam) so getting rid of this kind of listings is only a good thing for the sellers of revenue generating sites.

flippa become expensive, Because the websites are not selling with higher prices like before especially after the penguin updates. so, only list there if you have a site with over 300$ worth.

For me, who I'm used to sold 0 day websites, the continuous price increase of Flippa has got me abandoning site flipping for a while.
That's why $19 becomes $29, and the final fee if you sell is doubled (probably not all saw this).

More, if you add domain name price, contents, time and so on, it's no more valuable to sell new websites for flip. Also because people wants to pay them $5 to $10 each, so no way.
The unique thing you can sell on Flippa are great site, no less than PR3 anyway.

For my opinion Flippa is killing itself with this continuous price raise.
If someone will open a Flippa clone, allowing annual access for a basic fee (say $47 each year) and advertising its opening as a WSO, Flippa will be left with no customers at all.
If someone wants to try, I will be available as a partner.

Thanks and see you soon,
Alessandro

flippa is trying to make it site lean more towards high end value sites which will be a huge help to there brand.

A lot of people have turned to selling websites on their blogs. You can bypass the whole fee system.

For site flippers what this means is you just have to nurse your sites along for a little while before selling them.

For example, if you get a site up to just $30 revenue per month you should easily be able to sell it for around $300 if done the right way.

And by the right way I mean it will be most appealing to buyers if the income is from AdSense, Amazon or one of the other "big" sources people know well, and that the amount of time required to keep it going is as low as possible.

(PRO TIP: If you also promote smaller independent programs you can sell an entire affiliate account along with a website, with the unpaid revenue included. For example, you might promote something that takes 60 days to pay out. When a buyer knows that unpaid revenue is guaranteed to come to them when its due, it makes them a lot more comfortable with the whole purchase.)

If your site truly does have the potential to be an income earner you'll only have to hold onto it and run it a few months to get it to that small level. If not, the truth is it's probably not something that should be sold to an investor anyway.

So you might have a little downtime as you "raise your first crop" of sites, but you'll then also be able to sell for more and easily cover fees when you get back into the marketplace.

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I'd say it makes selling cheap websites almost impossible. This may be a good thing in order to improve quality.

flippa is too overpriced

It's hard to sell a starter site because the supply is so high compared to demand. If you have a little technical knowledge you can setup your own Wordpress website with a high quality premium theme for under $100. If you have a starter/turnkey website that is unique, you shouldn't be pricing it like any other starter site.

Anytime I've sold a site with custom design, unique content, etc., I've charged for my time to build the site. So, setting up the site (Wordpress, theme, domain, etc.) is not the only expense. I calculate my cost to write unique content, design a logo, customize theme layout, etc. In the end, a starter site is priced anywhere from $200-400, even if it doesn't have traffic.

Most people go to Flippa looking for a site that has traffic and makes money. But some people just want a website that functions, looks good and allows them to make changes and add content themselves. The key is to market the site as a product of all your hard work, not a money maker.

Imagine you had a client that asked you to build them a website. Think of everything you would need to do to transform it into a quality site. With starter sites it's the same scenario, except you've done all the work up front, anticipating a client will need the site.

When you put it in that perspective, the $29 listing fee is not that big of a deal. Also, Flippa tends to give free re-listing options if the site doesn't sell. I have a site listed right now that is on it's 3rd free re-listing. They make their money on sales, not listings.

On another point, I have found the quality of sites on Flippa to be deteriorating rapidly. I've actually initiated two investigations into sellers that have resulted in their ban for falsifying income and providing exaggerated information on their sites.