Flippa listing - $600/month adsense verified and only 2 bids. Whats wrong?

Some really simple answers here.

First off, as one of the other posters already mentioned, 5 bids up to $1200 with 9 people watching with over 7 days to go is a GOOD thing, not a bad thing.

You may be new to Flippa auctions so you might think it's bad but its very good for a site similar to yours.

NOW, if the auction does not end up commanding what you originally thought you could get, here are the things that I would think about as a potential buyer that would turn me off.

1. It's listed on Flippa. I automatically assume every listing is a complete fraud and then work your way backwards. You will be much better off.

Me too. I am always at flippa and its hard to find a good deal.

2. You keep saying you have 12 months of 'verified' adsense data through Flippa. First off, Flippa will only verify 3 months, NOT 12. Secondly, it IS possible to fake this. Everything must be taken in context including the rest of the bullet points I will mention here that might raise suspicions in someones mind.

Sorry but flippa verify those 12 months! You can check the graph! My graph have a line made in red that means verified. I dont know if someone can cheat, but what can i do more to explain that i am not faking anything? I showed printscreen, i verified adsense revenue... what else?

3. You are a brand new Flippa seller - Automatic red flags

Hum... My idea is that if the user is new, maybe he will offer something new and good because its the first time. People that sells a lot usually, for me, are just creating websites to flip with low quality.

4. You are doing some kind of wierd redirect on the site where the site I ger forwarded to is no the one that is actually for sale. If I'm a serious buyer, I may not have the time/energy to try to understand the reason for this even though it may be perfectly good. I just move along and tag your auction as a probable scam.

I explain the redirect on comments. The redirect is because google adsense sent me an email saying that the first domain was not family-friend (because means something like NO-NO-NO-NO-.me in Portuguese. So i changed the url and its fine already with the traffic for long time now)

5. You are selling a .Me domain, which is still very new to people. If I see a .Me domain/site, I immediately think 'newer site' or 'Flippa scam', NOT great aged adsense site

That doesn't mean anything. .me its like most of domains... lol? I dont get your point... More, .me means the same thing in portuguese, the .me domain is only to write a phrase like F*ck.me like.me...thats another why its popular arround here, easy to remember

6. You are telling me in the listing to go ask someone in portugual how great your site is - Really? Scam.

Scam? You think everything is a scam? lol I say that because people can ask someone here in portugal if they have friends or family... The odds are good that those people know the website. Why scam? Scam because i am beeing honest?

7. To me, you site looks boring and I wouldent want to spend any time working on it. Probably because it's in Portuguese, but remember, most Flippa buyers are based in US, and a good portion of them will have zero clue what your site is about.

You are right, people on flippa are mostly form US, but that doesnt mean people cant buy a website from another country when they dont need to work on it.

Would you make a sizeable investment in a site that you had no idea what it was really about?

8. How is a non-portuguese speaking buyer supposed to grow the site? They would not have the first clue how to add new content. Remeber, MOST people on flippa are looking for sites they can IMPROVE upon, not sites that will sit around collecting 'auto-pilot' revenues, because most people are aware there is no such thing for long term success.

They are not "auto-pilot" revenues, they are auto-pilot, people already know the website and visit it directly... I dont understand why its so dificult to understand... =/

9. When I go to your site taking a look at it wil the SEO book toolbar, I see big fat ZEROS next to two big things that I use to judge if a site is faking revenue - COmpete Uniques and SEM rush traffic value.


I know your site is not a US and that is the reason , but as a US buyer, why would I waste my time paying a huge multiple for a site that I can't build out and that looks very dodgy with all of the above items.

Hope some of that helps.

Seriously? That tools with toolbars doesnt work for Portugal or other small country, only works good for big one's like US, UK, and so on... If that toldbar its like the alexa toolbar, its normall since here in portugal people dont use that toldbar at all so the data is not acurate.


Wel... I think a serious buyer will try to understand and ask questions and that type of things instead of think that everything is a scam. Let me tell you one thing. Scam is 99% of flippa listings. 3 months old with like 8k revenue per month and things like that, for me that is a scam. If i was in buy-mode and saw a website with 12 months adsense verified earnings and other things, i would pay attention to it....

I understand some points, but other not because you think everything is a scam...How can i solve that after everything i posted on flippa listing? Only if i post a video of the adsense loggin or connect via teamviewer or something... There is not much i can do for that.