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Ask HN: A better alternative to flippa?
Just read a comment on HN about flippa - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3714938
I have few questions for HN Community :
1. Are you happy/satisfied with flippa? If not, why?
2. Is there a better alternative? If not, do you want one?
3. Why isn't anyone from HN coming up with a better solution?
If there is a demand, I would like to come up with a better solution.
- PonyGumbo 15y agoFlippa is just really noisy. It seems like the majority of listings are short-lived scraping sites with no revenue, or sites with revenue being sold for outrageous amounts of money. As a buyer, I'd like to see a Flippa-like site that only sells established, legitimate sites and businesses. Basically, the high-end antique shop alternative to the flea market that is Flippa.
- AznHisoka 15y agoIf it was truly legitimate, and raking in cash, not many people would sell.
- PonyGumbo 15y ago'Legitimate' in this context is not intended to be synonymous with 'raking in cash'. I'm talking about profitable businesses with sustainable revenue models - not someone with a niche, keyword specific domain they registered three months ago that's benefiting from some temporary adsense luck. My business partner and I sold a business a couple of years ago because our hearts just weren't in it anymore. It was profitable, but not enough to offset the pain in the ass of running it. We sold it to a group with a collection of complimentary businesses, and they've had great luck with it.
- AznHisoka 15y agoActually I am happy with Flippa. I bought a lot of bargain sites there. I haven't sold anything, but that's because I get people to approach me privately (better offers that way).
- cheae 15y agoI listed one of my site on the site(to sell), I set BIN(buy it now) price to a reasonable one, considering the revenue and the effort required to maintain the site. The site is a legitimate one, making passive income, a good domain and more than 2 years old. I decided not to reduce the price even if I couldn't sell the site. (I spent around $60 to list the site). I couldn't sell it. For me it looks like buyers assume that reported income and traffic of any listed site is higher than the actual figures. So they expect a ridiculously lower price for sites. There are so many listings that wants to sell for 2 - 3 times monthly earnings. Why would anyone want to do that? Can't they just keep the site themselves for another 3 months and earn that money.