Comments on: How has Flippa settled in?

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:03:26 +0000

I think one of the nicest features of Flippa is the ability to get so much third-party information just by scanning the left column. Although it’s much more expensive now, some of the costs can be offset such as splitting the success fee. Nice post.

By: ibuysites

ibuysites — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:13:54 +0000

Hi Dave, thanks for dropping in. Sorry, it wasn’t worded well. I meant that the transaction can be completed immediately only via Paypal. When you click the Buy Now button on any listing – whatever the BIN price – you get told: “…you will be redirected to http://www.paypal.com where you must pay (the BIN price)… ”

It looks like either you didn’t realise that Paypal has a $10K limit … or you figured that the $10K+ sales are such a small percentage it didn’t make sense to tailor the landing page to take into account that some sales are for over $10K.

I’ve added an image if that helps explain it.

By: Dave Slutzkin

Dave Slutzkin — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:19:13 +0000

“For example, anyone interested in buying a listed site at the BIN price is expected to complete the transaction immediately via Paypal.”

Can I just correct you there? Sellers can choose to take BIN payments via PayPal – with convenience benefits but with the $10k limit – or they can have BIN payments via any other payment method and have no upper limit.

And since you ask, we’ve had twenty or thirty sales in the last month over $10k. In fact, if you look at our High End listings, they’re ALL aimed to sell over $10k: http://flippa.com/buy-websites?filterby=listings-highend We think Flippa’s the best place for anyone wishing to buy or sell a website in that price range.

Always interested to hear other opinions, though!