If you haven’t heard of Flippa yet, it’s the newest marketplace for website flipping. Although it’s only a couple months old, it’s the largest and most active marketplace for buying and selling websites right now, but they had just a bit of a head-start (sarcasm!). Flippa is actually SitePoint’s marketplace just moved over to it’s own domain. What used to be more of a forum style of a set up is now a web 2.0-ish style of site that is laser-focused on buying and selling websites.

Since SitePoint have been dominating the marketplace for years, when they made the move over to Flippa, there was an outcry from a lot of the long time members because of the missing features and changes that were implemented. One thing that was most apparent was the negativity surrounding the pricing changes. Flippa introduced a 5% success fee, which means you owe them 5% of the final sale price of any successful sale that you list there. The general listing prices also went up quite a bit. In fact, the listing fee for a site in the start up section went from $10 to $19 on top of the 5$ success fee.

This made things difficult for sellers who sell cheap startup sites that already had a minimal profit margin. Many think that the company was trying to weed out those cheap startup sites since many members would complain about how saturated the start up section was getting with really low quality sites for buyers to have to weed through.

Regardless of the reason, the fact is (as of right now), Flippa is the main player with the most buyers and you’re not doing yourself any favors if you choose another marketplace over them right now.
If you’re going to sell your sites publicly, it’s worth it to suck up the pricing and go where the buyers are because they have way more traffic consisting of interested buyers who like to spend money on sites than any other marketplace.

There is also a new featured implemented with the change to Flippa that can help you get more traffic than before. At SitePoint, the url of your site flip would always be something like marketplace.sitepoint.com/867907, but now on Flippa, your full title is in the site flip sale URL. I haven’t experienced any differences personally yet, but it definitely ca’t hurt to have a little organic seo on your side even though there’s already a pretty big flow of targeted traffic to your site flips on Flippa.

Bottom line is, more traffic to your site flips means more sales (and often for bigger prices), so if you’re selling your site publicly, use Flippa.com.