Everyone uses Google Analytics for site stats, right?

Most listings have a bunch of Analytics screenshots and PDFs uploaded as attachments. But how much can a buyer trust a PNG or even a PDF which the seller has uploaded themselves? Most sellers are completely legit, but there’s a minority who can, shall we say, push the boundaries a little.

No-one wants this, so Flippa now helps both buyers and sellers to trust each other.

Sellers, follow the instructions through the Add Analytics Stats link on your listing to send an email from your Analytics account to Flippa. Once this is done we’ll upload the attachment to your listing.

As a buyer, you should look for attachments which have the Flippa logo and big text saying Verified. We’ve done checks on these and we’re almost completely certain that they come directly from Google to us, so you can trust the data in them.

A small disclaimer: as you all know, email isn’t designed to be 100% secure, so we can’t give a complete guarantee. However, we’ve done a heap of work to ensure that these emails can’t be forged, and we’ll be quickly banning any seller we detect attempting forgery—as we do for any attempted fraud.

Other features too!

Minimum Bid Increment

Everyone hates an annoying $1 increase in price when your auction is sitting over $1000. We’ve fixed up the bid increments so that now there’s a minimum increment. It’s a complicated formula, but basically, if your listing is over $100 the minimum increase is $10, if it’s over $1000 then $100, and so forth. This will be good for both buyers and sellers. Sellers don’t have to deal with tiny bids which don’t actually get them anything, and buyers don’t have to worry about being outbid by $1 right near the end of the auction.

Action Box

If you’re participating in a listing, and especially if your the seller or the winner, you can now see an Action Box on the listing page. This pops up near the top of the listing and gives you quick links to everything you need to do related to that listing, including leaving feedback, contacting the other party and paying the success fee. It’s a one stop shop which should help you keep better track of where you are in the process.

Confirm Before Accepting Offer

Private Sale listings were a new feature on Flippa, and they’re working really well with a lot of good sales coming through this mechanism. However, sellers who are used to Auctions can be confused when they get a free Private Sale listing, and might accidentally accept the first offer coming in, thinking it’s like a bid. We want to avoid this, so now you need to confirm that you know what you’re doing before accepting an offer and ending your listing.