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Marketcake

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I've been looking at flippa for some time with some ideas.. Do these larger sites generally remain automated, or do they need constant upkeep to keep earnings at the same level.

This for instance
Site for Sale: Turn Key $5419/month Unique Male Enhancement Content SIte — Flippa

Could you buy like 3 or 4 of these sites and expect they would make that income for a year or more without doing too much extra work (aside from split testing the LP to perfection).

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T
 


All sites will need some tweaking and updating with new content and also link building
 
You could have answered this yourself if you thought about it. Give me one site that makes what it did two years ago without any changes to it, or any updating, or any new links. None.
 
It really depends on the site. There are some sites that will come crashing down in a week without any work on them, and others that are a lot more automated.

When it all comes down to it though, for most websites, you have to continue tweaking and adding new content and managing PPC campaigns or building backlinks etc depending on how the traffic is coming in.
 
Flippa scares me. Seems like everyone there is trying to pull a fast one or screw you over. I would be extremely careful with who you deal with.
 
r3p1v said:
Flippa scares me. Seems like everyone there is trying to pull a fast one or screw you over. I would be extremely careful with who you deal with.
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If you know what your doing you can still find some gems. But if you don't, and don't know how to verify independantly the claims on these sites, then yeah, you're probably going to get screwed.
 
I'd say 95% of the sites sold on Flippa are either dead or dying. There is no reason to sell a site making $x,xxx+ a month and say you need money. They could obviously just keep running the site and earn the money themselves. Usually something has happened, that the owner is usually not willing to share, that is causing the sites earnings to drop and they are trying to get a big payout (according to past monthly earnings) before it drops too much. Before buying from anyone, make sure you understand everything about the site and get all of the proof. Even then, its sketchy at best most of the time.
 
Bidding on a website called penisamp for 30k would probably not be a wise investment. I would say Make the website yourself or atleast hire someone to make it for you, it makes it a lot more fun and worthwhile .

I've messed with flippa, I do agree it seems everyone is trying to pull a fast one on you. I have yet to bite on anything though alot of websites look tempting
 
When you see the term "turn key" on a title of a sale thread, it usually means someone payed $7.77 for the privilege of signing up to someone else's affiliate program that pays you to get others to sign up to their affiliate program, all neatly disguised in a domain, free template and duplicated sales copy.

The program of course is to buy a shitty domain, slap up a free template and copy/paste some sales copy, then try to sell it on flippa as a "turn key" online business that could earn $5316/month.
 
I just saw a site that I used to own (I sold it off ~1.5 years ago for around $2k), get sold on Flippa for $10k.

It makes $1k/month, making it seem like a good investment at its final sale value.

I don't want to out the site. However I know (since I still have root access to the site, and access to analytics) that this site:
1. Is blatantly breaking the rules of its major income source (an affiliate program), and this affiliate program will not pay you any outstanding balances if they catch you (I have $5k sitting in a banned account myself).
2. The site has been banned from virtually every ad program including Adsense, Kontera, and Adbrite (which is pretty hard to do)
3. This site has around 25% of its traffic coming from illegal websites... stuff that would lead to the FBI knocking on your door.
4. The proprietary software that the owner claims (which I wrote) is a half finished piece of garbage that is about to fall apart any minute.

The buyer doesn't know any of this, and it would be very hard for him to figure these things out until they have control of the site. On top of that, the new owner has no clue that I still have complete root access to the site (and I could backdoor my way in even if I didn't), and he doesn't even know who I am.

Buyer beware when you are buying anything on Flippa.
 
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damn son. was it a hacking/warez/virus site? thats the only thing i could think of that would warrent the fbi...


either that...


or...









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I've hit two auctions where the seller set up fake accounts to artificially up the bid because they thought it was too low, fuckers
 
papajohn56 said:
I've hit two auctions where the seller set up fake accounts to artificially up the bid because they thought it was too low, fuckers
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I've seen that too, although you can set a reserve so my guess is it was done more to show interest in the site (ie. if other people are bidding on it, it must be worth it). Of course, that happens on eBay, Sedo, etc - nature of online auctions.
 
r3p1v said:
Flippa scares me. Seems like everyone there is trying to pull a fast one or screw you over. I would be extremely careful with who you deal with.
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^exactly.

In my case, the only time I sell any of my sites is when the income is dried up almost completely. So it seems to me a lot of people on there are dumping sites that are no longer earners, or they are pumping up sites that never earned to begin with.
 
cardine said:
I just saw a site that I used to own (I sold it off ~1.5 years ago for around $2k), get sold on Flippa for $10k.

It makes $1k/month, making it seem like a good investment at its final sale value.

I don't want to out the site. However I know (since I still have root access to the site, and access to analytics) that this site:
1. Is blatantly breaking the rules of its major income source (an affiliate program), and this affiliate program will not pay you any outstanding balances if they catch you (I have $5k sitting in a banned account myself).
2. The site has been banned from virtually every ad program including Adsense, Kontera, and Adbrite (which is pretty hard to do)
3. This site has around 25% of its traffic coming from illegal websites... stuff that would lead to the FBI knocking on your door.
4. The proprietary software that the owner claims (which I wrote) is a half finished piece of garbage that is about to fall apart any minute.

The buyer doesn't know any of this, and it would be very hard for him to figure these things out until they have control of the site. On top of that, the new owner has no clue that I still have complete root access to the site (and I could backdoor my way in even if I didn't), and he doesn't even know who I am.

Buyer beware when you are buying anything on Flippa.
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Out it dude! The curiosity is killing me :)
 
It's weird that SP went to all the hassle and expense of setting up Flippa when their old system worked well, and the relative quality back then was so much higher. Flippa is a child of the site flipping craze.


Frank
 
like everything/everywhere else, you have to weed through the craps to find the gem.

there's loads of craps on flippa, but sometime there's some truly awesome sites on offers, some almost 100% ( 100% doesnt exist, all sites needs some maintenance or will die eventually) - but they come at a much higher price tag.

sites under $1k arent worth it IMO, they're probably not earning the seller anything, hence the sale.
 
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