Precisely $500/Month Potential

[hooperman]

Has anyone else noticed an increase in the number of auction titles that name the exact monthly potential that the site has?

• $26,000 Monthly Op - Unique Content Network
• $400/monthly potential earning with HTC EVO 4G niche blog
• $1,800 Per month - Autopilot Biz - Perfect for a newbie
• CPA $500/mth Potential - Woman Health Niche -Automated Wordpress Site!

I find these listings even more annoying than the ones that declare "massive potential" because they imply that the seller has sat down and put actually calculated what the "potential" is. I assume they're just borrowing from the the "learn how I made precisely $21,467.19 last week in just my girlfriend's underwear" school of sales.

I think there are trends to the style of language used. For a while it was "anyone else want to earn $600/month hands free". There's also the "Godaddy are going to be p*ssed about this" line doing the rounds on domains.

Yawn.

I wouldn't mind if Flippa just did away with any free format text boxes where sellers can talk up (lie about) their listing and just presented a series of boxes for numerical input. i.e. just the facts ma'am.

[delta4]

In last week i didn´t even go to flippa to see new listings. Getting fed up of reading all those kind of texts and so i took a time off from that and keep focus on my own sites.

[Andy]

So, what are you saying hooperman? Should I stop bidding on these sites? What do I do with the precisely 500 I've won?

Andy

[hooperman]

So, what are you saying hooperman? Should I stop bidding on these sites? What do I do with the precisely 500 I've won?

I recommend that you reimburse the seller in the amount of the true profit you realise minus their understated estimation of profit.

And advise them to be less conservative in their projections in future.

[Andy]

I recommend that you reimburse the seller in the amount of the true profit you realise minus their understated estimation of profit.

And advise them to be less conservative in their projections in future.

Great idea - now if I can only find their phone number...