Flippa Blog

  First-time buyer? Long-time website purchaser? Either way, seller and website due diligence is incredibly important. As the saying goes, “knowledge is power”.  In this two-part series, we’ll be ringing twelve alarm bells that you can use when deciding which websites of worthy of your bid. Stay tuned, kids, there will be a second part [...]

  We’re rolling out a new feature today to highlight some of our premium website listings. With more than 1500 auctions open on Flippa at any moment, this new feature helps sellers of high-end websites really highlight their auction and make it stand apart from the rest.  Premium Listings have distinctive styling and priority placement [...]

  When Patrick needed to quickly turn an asset into cash, he decided to sell a website he had been working on, Reorder-checks.com, on Flippa. “This was my first consistently profitable site. It was exciting to build, and its revenue was up to around $2000 a month. Up until October, I had no intention of selling, [...]

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Flippa.com is proud to have received a Rising Star Award as part of Deloitte’s 11th annual Technology Fast 50 of Australian technology companies. The Rising Star award recognizes companies with the fastest rates of annual revenue growth, for companies that are less than three years old. Only eight technology companies were given Rising Star status, [...]

Just over a year ago, we introduced a feature that allowed website sellers to indicate whether their website was New or Established. The trouble we’ve been seeing as of late is that the distinction between New or Established has become largely arbitrary. Some sellers are listing websites created in the last month with zero traffic [...]

Recently, a few Flippa sellers have been concerned about buyers using PayPal eChecks to pay for websites. We wanted to let you know a bit more about the payment service, and show you how problems may arise so you can avoid it yourself. What Are PayPal eChecks? PayPal’s eCheck option allows its users to make [...]

We were thrilled to be awarded “Best in Class” by the Interactive Media Awards today for our recent improvements to website search refinement. The honor recognizes that the initiative surpassed the key standards of excellence that comprise the web’s most professional work. The site was honored specifically for excellence in the Auction category. The judging [...]

Robert Birming isn’t one to shy from adventure. So when the bricklayer-turned-musician-turned-web entrepreneur received requests to create an English-language version of his Swedish site Smidigt, he jumped right in. “I couldn’t have asked for a better start,” Robert explains. “Many of the major blogs posted about the fact that an English version of Smidigt, GeekAlerts.com, [...]

The ever-evolving nature of being the world’s largest website marketplace means we keep a close eye on how we work to deliver maximum value for both website buyers and sellers. To this end, we’ll occasionally make minor pricing adjustments to keep it all in balance. Even so, the changes we’re rolling out today will only [...]