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Flippa.com Reviews Summary

Flippa.com has a rating of 1.8 stars from 139 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with Flippa.com most frequently mention customer service, personal information and negative feedback. Flippa.com ranks 5244th among Business Services sites.

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1 review
3 helpful votes
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Thinking of selling a domain on Flippa?
I would not if I were you...
First of all, you are to pay a $9 up-front fee, for which you really get nothing special other than a listing. You will NOT have ANY kind of exposure other than the "ending soon" auctions in the last few minutes of your sale.

You may have hopes of being featured in "editor's choice" but if you do not know who Kevin from Flippa is, you WON'T have either "editor's choice" OR "buyers also like" because these are reserved for Kevin's little domain racket. Trust me, you are better off selling a domain on Ebay.

Date of experience: May 30, 2017
Washington
1 review
6 helpful votes
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Terrible customer service. Flippa Escrow was not working and when I tried explainin this to them, they told me I was wrong. My response had swear words in it so they banned me lol. What a joke. All I wanted to do was give them my money lmao

Date of experience: January 29, 2017
India
1 review
5 helpful votes
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My profile have 100% positive review with 0% negative feedback from buyer/sellers both. I got banned & Flippa Give me below silly reason.

"Why your all bidder got banned? You know the reason behind this."

If any bidder in my auction is scammer or anything else, that was my Fault? Flippa banned few bidder who also placed bids in my auction & flippa also banned my auctions and my flippa account. Only reason is that banned bidders also placed bids in my auction. I got this email from guy name of Josh W. I replied josh 13 days ago, Still I have not received reply from Flippa.

Anyone need proof related this issue then contact me. Even Flippa must have to answer me. Dam poor support and Silly non-sense support team. Also need refund for my 2 auction's amount $9 x 2 if you guys not going to revoke my account.

Date of experience: October 17, 2016
India
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Really Very bad flippa
September 13, 2016

Flippa banned me without any reason and saying i have multiple account
Their analyzers are sick they don't know how to analyze.
Just banned me without ask any question

Date of experience: September 12, 2016
California
4 reviews
12 helpful votes
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Scammers?
August 15, 2016

Recently i have post a very positive review here about my experience with Flippa.
But unfortunately Flippa one day without any warning block my account. I get not explanation for the reason, support answer two times and still dont know why my account is blocked.
I have customers paid for their site and i am not able even to login and answer them and deliver the site that they have paid for! Money are in flippa escrow and customers cannot refund. What to say. I agree with strictly policy of Flippa but this one is like scam.

Date of experience: August 15, 2016
Switzerland
4 reviews
8 helpful votes
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I signed up in November. After buying 12 mediocre cookie cutter sites and 2 apps, I started being more prudent about the quality of product at Flippa. The last thing I bought was an app which cost $225. The Seller didn't mention before the sale of an additional transfer fee of $45 to use escrow.com. It wasn't in the listing. I communicated with the seller to find solutions, but he filed a dispute. I didn't agree and Flippa suspended me. Being the first time this happened, I immediately contacted customer support and explained and asked for help.

No help, Flippa's way of dealing with my concerns was to ask for a scan of my Passport, and a photo of me. My passport? I was cautious and asked why all my personal info for a $225 product that I questioned? They said it was policy. Who asks for passports? Ebay? Amazon? I was suspicious and concerned. Instead of reassurance, they started being rude and plain bad.

A certain *, one of their customer service integrity people decided in a rude and unjust manner to Ban me FOR LIFE. All because I asked too many questions and tried to have a fresh start with Flippa. My curiosity took me to a google search about Flippa dn *. Lots and lots of negative reports about flippa and * He is bad news. I raised suspicion about the products, my identity security, and unscrupulous sellers and * took his Napoleonic short man complex and banned me for life.

The lesson, I dont lose out, and probably save money not using Flippa. Flippa sells bad quality product, Flippa customer service is often rude, Flippa wants to make Money through an abundance of shady sellers from 3rd world countries cranking out cookie cutter template sites and apps. If a Buyer like me questions things, they get banned.

By the looks of all the negative reviews about Flippa Online, I'm not the only buyer who was treated like dirt by Flippa and also *

*Personal information redacted by admin

Date of experience: February 19, 2016
Greece
2 reviews
9 helpful votes
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Banned my Account
January 7, 2016

Banned my account because i ask seller why this pr6 site has no Traffic and they Ban my Account without any explain or investigate the case
Worst company, no support nothing, they only care about fees from sellers. They will find any reason to ban an account, and will NOT refund you the ridiculous price you paid to get your site listed.

Stay Away

Thank you

Date of experience: January 7, 2016
New York
1 review
8 helpful votes
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Customer support simply does not exists! I submitted the request to refund the money that THEY double-charged about a month ago. They marked it "solved" multiple times without the refund! When I re-opened it again and again, they asked me to send them picture of myself holding my ID close to my face so they "would know I am a real person" WHAT? You collected my money from PayPal without it but to get the refund to the same PayPal account I need to submit a picture? Thanks for PayPal ateam to get me my money back otherwise I would still be waiting for it!

Date of experience: November 2, 2015
Arizona
1 review
17 helpful votes
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* is the rudest, most condencending "support" agent at Flippa. Rather than helping me resolve a problem with a buyer who was sending me abusive comments through the Flippa message system, * proceeded to lecture me about how it was MY fault! This went on for days and I continued to get abusive comments and Flippa did nothing because the seller was one of Flippa's "pet" sellers (a famous marketing "guru). * defended the seller and did NOTHING. This man is so horrible. I've never received such foul and pathetic service online in my life! * takes the cake! So rude! Frankly he is ruining Flippa's reputation. A few searches for "* Flippa Support" shows many other complaints. WHY does this miserable person still have a job?"

*Personal information redacted by admin

Date of experience: May 16, 2015
Singapore
6 reviews
14 helpful votes
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Other poor customer support may never reply to you or give you months response time.

Flippa is similar to the second type, but worse because they do it during crisis moment and even deleted my replies in the ticket causing the whole ticket to sound like I am at fault based on my behaviour.

Also, they are very slanderous which I have proof. They promised that they would reinstate account upon submitting legal documents but they refused and continued giving reason. In addiction, when my friend emailed them asking why, they said because I did not contact them but I contacted them so much no response from them.

Although I am also at fault for breaching their guidelines without knowing, I bided my friend's auction listing and vice versa in addiction in same location, but I explained that my friend had his difficulty needed me to do it on his behalf and my friend even submitted legal documents since Flippa promised to reinstate but at the end Flippa got held of the legal documents and sent us an email saying our account has been banned.

Date of experience: December 29, 2014
Florida
8 reviews
23 helpful votes
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While the site (design, functionality, etc.) are really good, BEWARE, the customer support is HORRIBLE. They will find any reason to ban an account, and will NOT refund you the ridiculous price you paid to get your site listed.)

Buying and selling sites is a great way to make some extra cash, and it's tempting to use their service, but contact site owners directly, avoid dealing with these people.

Date of experience: January 9, 2013

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Flippa is the entrepreneur’s marketplace, where you can discover new business opportunities. We are the world’s number 1 destination for buying and selling online businesses.


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Founded in 2009
Melbourne, VIC, Australia