{"id":3889,"date":"2015-03-23T20:41:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-23T10:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flippa.com\/blog\/buyer-interview-with-the-new-owner-of-seedandgarden-com\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T23:54:49","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T13:54:49","slug":"buyer-interview-with-the-new-owner-of-seedandgarden-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flippa.com\/blog\/buyer-interview-with-the-new-owner-of-seedandgarden-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Buyer interview with the new owner of SeedAndGarden.com, a website purchased at auction on Flippa for $22,500!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today we caught up with Paul Wilkins who, along with his business partner Phillip Croy, purchased SeedAndGarden.com for $22,500 on Flippa. Paul tells us how he and Phil got their start buying websites and what their plans are for Seed And Garden moving forward.<\/p>\n

Tell us about your background<\/h2>\n

My business partner Phil and I have been friends since we were in grade school. Phil has always been an entrepreneur. When most kids were playing hopscotch, Phil was selling bagged lunches and potato chips at a profit. His entrepreneurial spirit continued into high school where he made a bunch of money selling Pokemon cards online. It was probably these ventures that ultimately led to him becoming a CPA. On the other hand, I got more into entrepreneurialism as I started doing more and more residential property management. The fact that there was passive income available to people who were willing to think outside the box in terms of typical salaried jobs really inspired me.<\/p>\n

What brought you to Flippa?<\/h2>\n

I had the capital and Phil had the online sales background and business sense so we decided to acquire a business together. Not long after, Phil\u2019s cousin recommended that we check out Flippa, which he said had thousands of websites for sale<\/a>. Right away we found a young website called CheapMagicSleeves.com, and it was honestly too good of a fit to pass. Phil and I grew up playing the \u201cMagic\u201d card game, so we had a pretty good understanding of the customer base for Cheap Magic Sleeves. We bought the site for $405, and a year later the revenue has grown substantially. While the site still has a long way to go it has been a great learning opportunity.<\/p>\n

Tell us about SeedAndGarden.com<\/h2>\n

SeedAndGarden.com, an ecommerce site specializing in the sale of high-quality seed starting supplies and fresh seeds at reasonable prices, is our most recent acquisition. The site was founded in 2004 and came complete with detailed descriptions, high quality images, and a place for customer reviews to help home and professional gardeners make better purchase decisions. At $22,500 Seed And Garden was a much larger acquisition than Cheap Magic Sleeves, and it came with a new set of challenges.<\/p>\n

What are your plans for Seed And Garden moving forward?<\/h2>\n

Right now we\u2019re focused on improving the processes of the business such as those related to inventory control and customer support. We\u2019re also trying to get a better understanding of our customers. Luckily, Phil\u2019s wife is an amateur gardener herself with first-hand knowledge of many of the products we sell. She has been a huge help during the transition. Overall, we\u2019re both very happy with the purchase and we\u2019re looking forward to continuing to grow this top destination for gardening seeds and seed supplies. We\u2019re also excited to continue building our web business portfolio.<\/p>\n

Do you have any\u00a0advice for other web entrepreneurs looking at websites for sale on Flippa?<\/h2>\n

For anyone considering purchasing a website my one piece of advice is: get ready to work. An online business is a business that comes with responsibilities just like any other. If you are looking for a get rich quick scheme, go buy a lottery ticket. There is an almost infinite number of opportunities to make money online, but you have to be willing to put in the work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today we caught up with Paul Wilkins who, along with his business partner Phillip Croy, purchased SeedAndGarden.com for $22,500 on Flippa. Paul tells us how he and Phil got their start buying websites and what their plans are for Seed And Garden moving forward. Tell us about your background My business partner Phil and I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":1102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","content-type":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,11,34],"tags":[],"dipi_cpt_category":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flippa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3889"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flippa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flippa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flippa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flippa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/flippa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57925,"href":"https:\/\/flippa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3889\/revisions\/57925"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flippa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flippa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flippa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flippa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3889"},{"taxonomy":"dipi_cpt_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flippa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dipi_cpt_category?post=3889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}