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  • Buying Websites

    How To Find Website Sellers Desperate to Sell 

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    Clinton
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    Published on October 17th, 2012 10:45 AM

    [[Update, Oct 17th: Tool now available here - Clinton]]

    This tool collects and lists all sites that failed to achieve a sale at Flippa.

    Flippa proudly publishes a Just Sold list. ...
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    New Tool: Easily find high value sites that have been abandoned! :) 

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    Clinton
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    Published on October 2nd, 2012 3:10 PM

    Some sites sell for a lot of money on Flippa, but then the new owner either feels he's made a bad buy or doesn't know how to run the site and abandons it.

    Those domains get expired or come up for sale at knockdown ...
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    Testing to see if the site was listed for sale in the past 

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    Clinton
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    Published on September 27th, 2012 1:26 PM

    When looking to buy a site it's useful to know if and when that site came up for sale in the past. Why? Several reasons:
    1. You can see the comments made by other bidders at the time
    2. You can compare ...
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    How to Spot Dodgy Sellers and Likely Shill Bidders in Flippa 

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    Clinton
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    Published on August 31st, 2012 5:02 AM

    This seller is called mycompanyname. I'm not saying he's suspicious as I don' t know who he is, but the new tool I released yesterday allows us to do some digging

    Flippa has uncovered two ...
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    Sending unsolicited requests to buy sites 

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    David S
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    Published on August 17th, 2012 4:23 AM

    I get a few unsolicited inquiries every year. I have intended to answer each inquiry, but it was never a high priority so ...
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    Website Buying Contract 

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    dsieg58
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    Published on August 16th, 2012 2:07 AM

    I searched this website looking for a comprehensive website buying contract and couldn't find one. Maybe it is here, and ...
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    My "golden Rules" of Website Buying 

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    dsieg58
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    Published on August 10th, 2012 10:17 AM

    1.) Any hint of a seller withholding information, don’t bid, or buy.
    2.) Never bid on an auction unless you have ALL ...
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    Quick ways to weed out the junk in Flippa: scanning the titles 

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    dsieg58
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    Published on July 31st, 2012 12:11 PM

    I would also add to this discussion "How To Weed Out Junk SELLERS on Flippa."

    I would add to this ...
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    Buying New Domains 

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    Fish
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    Published on July 1st, 2012 5:44 PM
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    If you are looking for mountainshoes.com, or the much better mountainbikeshoes.com, they are both owned by the same domainer, ...
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    Why Flippa's Verified Analytics and Verified Adsense is not to be relied on 

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    mikeb
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    Published on June 27th, 2012 5:27 AM

    Matt - Sorry I missed this.

    I did contact you guys through support to share what I know. It was like trying ...
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    Finance to buy an online business 

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    SusanH
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    Published on May 8th, 2012 2:32 PM

    Hi all,

    We are hoping to buy a business - it has retail premises but it has been established as an online retailer ...
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    How to make money finding web sites to purchase and improve 

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    KenW3
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    Published on May 3rd, 2012 4:59 AM

    The typical sources for websites purchased for improvement seem to offer little opportunity. There are resources that have ...
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    Do you think market tanked? Why not invest in Apps? 

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    delta4
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    Published on April 5th, 2012 8:38 AM

    Do you think market tanked like Clinton says? (I do!).

    Then stop thinking about websites and domains and maybe ...
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    Valuations of higher end online businesses 

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    FinanceGuy
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    Published on April 2nd, 2012 5:44 PM

    Caveat - just as in housing, there are always honest brokers so nothing here should be implied against iMA or WSYSBroker. ...
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    Discussions on trademarks - What's infringing and what's not 

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    KenW3
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    Published on March 20th, 2012 11:07 AM

    'Not sure' can lead to a world of difficulty. Ignorance of the law is no defense. I know you cannot possibly be suggesting ...
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    The future of domains? 

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    Kay
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    Published on March 19th, 2012 7:44 AM

    It's not uncommon to read articles, including those by some very savvy people, saying that maybe we won't even have domains in, say, five years time. After ...
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    Gross profit vs net profit vs cash flow 

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    akirk
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    Published on March 5th, 2012 4:07 AM

    hmmm - if that is BizBuySell's understanding of accounts it is worrying
    net profit is after tax, not before tax... ...
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    Emotional constructs with valuing websites 

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    KenW3
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    Published on March 3rd, 2012 2:25 AM

    Brandable domains have common attributes, many of which are applied to other domain names. Emotive response is a failing ...
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    What to look out for when buying turnkey websites 

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    Clinton
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    Published on February 29th, 2012 7:43 AM

    As crabfoot says, a turnkey site can get you access to a program you might otherwise not have access to. Turnkeys also remove all the headache of choosing a theme, tweaking it, adding content such as embedding youtube ...
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    Some tips on buyer protection 

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    David S
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    Published on February 24th, 2012 3:20 PM

    In significant deals this is handled in a number of ways, depending on a variety of factors:

    1. In today's ...
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