Flippa.comReviews 139

Flippa has caused me to lose not one but two nights of sleep. As someone based in one the hardest hit Covid l9 areas who has sick loved ones suffering from it, the last thing I need is more stress heaped on me. We're suffering here in America.

I see that I can upload photo proof here which is great compared to trustpil0t.

After being a verified seller with 100% perfect feedback for over a year, I was banned by flippa.

The reason given was incorrect. When faced with this information, Flippa came up with new reason and tried to make me look shady INSTEAD of apologizing.

So in the midst of a very scary Pandemic where the whole world is incredibly stressed, Flippa creates strife instead of appreciating the FEW honest sellers like me on their platform.

Update more shortly.

Flippa.com is a house of scammers who are originaly from South Asia and they are professional scammers who sell copy right violated apps and websites and they sell the same copy to hundreds of victims and they provide the apps with no source code and keystore password and Google will suspend the app or the website eventually and when you try to Lodge a dispute flippa.com will till you sorry, deal with PayPal where they will also tell you sorry, your purchase is not covered under pay pal policy. Do not buy the apps or websites as these south Asian sellers stole a copy and illegally distribute it and Google will suspend it.

I was linking to my website for sale on Flippa and asking people to go there to see the details and maybe make an offer. Then someone I sent there via a link told me he was not allowed to read much about my site unless he opened an account, which he was reluctant to do. I am sure a lot of visitors (likely the vast majority) don't want to open an account to simply look. I would not do it myself if it's required.

This is a huge negative in my opinion which I am sure a lot of sellers have not thought much about or considered to be a negative. If i am paying $65 a month to list there they have no valid justification to seriously restrict the number of visitors who can look at my listing in detail.

Without an account the Flippa.com site visitor can only view short and insufficient info about the listing. When I asked their (very slow) support why the restriction all they would say is that's their policy for many years and it will not be changed and refused to answer the question about the reason why.

I buy a site to seller who looked serious 10 years old, 100% positive opinion. The site was 4 months old and would generate $ 3000 on average, it was very interesting. The seller promises to provide his own facebook advertising method. What I had is not the same thing, the seller has to delete the customer database because after him it's forbidden, he provided me facebook training found on the net and it dates from early 2018. The seller did not provide me these old advertising, so I do not know how he generated money during the 4 months. For me it was useless to keep the site. So I decided to give it back. This is where the problem starts, to make the referral on godaddy, it took 2 weeks. He claimed that the back link did not work, I had to contact godaddy about a dozen times, for nothing. So I decided to create a second godaddy account and try to send it to the new account, and everything works, so I send all his flippa, and the seller, and magically the return walk. Now that the seller has received the domain, he is no longer responding. And two days later I get a flippa mail that has suspended my account and close the dispute, saying that the seller has to prove that he will repay me! Unbelievable! I lost $ 1000 for nothing

Usually, the thing is that the people that are not happy with the service make an extended effort to write a negative review for the service and happy people don't really bother.
Anyway Flippa is a great service, Just made a clean transaction and the process was smooth through Flippa Escrow. Yes they deducted their 10% (Success fee is on the higher side) but overall really a good platform considering the alternatives.
Support is a bit slow and you have to be good at what you do so not don't get scammed, but this is the deal with the internet overall, you got to be smart enough with any sort of transaction over internet. Flippa is legit and a great service.

There support is quite bad. I have done one sales for more then 27 days, ask then to solve the issue with id versification there support team not even reply fore more then 15 days and not able to solve the issue due to which sale not able to complete ticket id:- *******, *******,*******

I try to contact all way but there team is not even checking the ticket for more then 15 days. Do thing after this any one will use it even after sale they not able to solve the problem i am facing due to which the sale not completed

See screenshot http :// prntscr [.] com/obyhxs hope flippa team will see this and do some solution

Flippa doesn't protect buyers from scammer sellers as they don't do a thorough check of the listed revenues and expenses. After the auction, I found out the seller, Mark Cambridge, omitted expenses related to freelancer fees from his P&L statement. Later on, I caught the seller inflating income numbers due to commingling of assets. Flippa support was not much help either as their advice boiled down to "I would direct you to Mark for any further questions or assistance you may require or questions you may have regarding the goods." In the end, you are screwed as the buyer that spent money on a site that was less than you expected with no recourse to rectify the situation. Please keep in mind that Mark is someone that described himself as a "trusted seller" in the auction. LOL

However, not all experiences at Flippa are negative. Another auction I won met all of my expectations and the seller was honest with all of the assets and not intentionally hiding anything unlike Mark. My advice to Flippa buyers is to be very careful who you decide to buy from and do not let the seller bully you into releasing the money too early without inspecting everything properly and asking several probing questions.

If you happen to be lucky, you may get a good purchase from Flippa however most of the sellers on Flippa are selling bogus products. If you happen to purchase one of these products from dishonest sellers, Flippa will refuse to help and will always close the case in sellers favor as they have a vested interest in the fees.
*A tip - never use Flippa Escrow, you will never get your funds back if there is an issue. It's best to use the real Escrow service or PayPal. If there is an issue you may have a chance to claim chargeback.

In a nutshell - dont use Flippa! I sold my site on Flippa and have been appalled by the costs and fees they charge in relation to the service they offer. Flippa now have enough competitors and if you dont want all your hard work going into Flippas greedy pockets, I suggest you use someone else. I wish I had.

Adding up the amount Flippa took from the sale of my site including listing fees, transactions fees, commission fees, it added up to nearly 25% of the total amount the site sold for. 25%! That is just stealing. I understand that they provide a platform to sell sites but their marketing is misleading and their service is awful, and 25% is just too much. Who takes 25%? Not even trading platforms or estate agents.

For the premium listing they say theyll feature your site on their homepage and in the newsletters. But if other sellers have bought the premium listing as well on the same day, your site will only be on the homepage until its pushed off by other sellers who have just paid. My site was listed on the homepage for around three hours! Then it was pushed to page two, then three, then four and into the void within a day or two. That was not worth paying $249 for!

I value the site I built and its quality and Im not surprised it sold at auction at a good price. And it would have sold equally well on Flippas competitor platforms (theyre easy to find). So in hindsight I regret using Flippa. Nowadays theyre nothing special.

If you are looking around now for an auction platform to sell your site or app, read all the reviews on Flippa, check out their competitors and make a good business decision. Flippa is not the default option by far and theyre massively greedy.

Plus I know of people who have complained and had their listings taken down, just like that.
Avoid Flippa people! There are other good options out there and you dont need to just give your hard earned money to Flippa in this way.

* is an abusive bully. The other reviews don't lie. He automatically sides with steady-selling-con artist sellers, and claims you're a liar if you file a complaint with paypal. He also says a particular seller was just *frustrated* if he sends you verbal threats. This seller called me a *big liar* and said he would sue me for defammation of character because I disliked his low quality duplicate saturated sites that he's sold to thousands of people. I'm relieved I got my money back. He has been selling these particular cookie cutters since january of 2017 and will "stop" selling once he runs out of inventory. (Yeah right). 2 months ago a prospect asked how long he would keep selling and he answered "2 more weeks." Ummm. It's June now. He receives negative feedback every other day which flippa removes. I asked flippa why this is allowed after they originally told me it wasn't possible to remove negative feedback, and they screamed at me in the email. If prospects ask about potential penalties based on duplicate content or general inquiries, instead of answering any questions the seller will snap to just not bid. I'm scrambling the name of this "sweet" individual: *

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