Non Paying Bidders in Flippa (Stats)

**Clinton** · June 30th, 2012, 3:40 PM

I'll work on it. In the meanwhile here's a spreadsheet of the last request 24x+

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You can play around with sorting by column heading.

**Clinton** · July 23rd, 2012, 10:55 AM

Percentage of sites sold ("claimed" as sold) in Flippa over last four months:

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And a bad week for sellers. Non-paying Bidders*:

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*Based on dollar amount, not number of sales.

**Thomas** · July 23rd, 2012, 11:00 AM

Originally Posted by Clinton

Percentage of sites sold ("claimed" as sold) in Flippa over last four months:

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And a bad week for sellers. Non-paying Bidders*:

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*Based on dollar amount, not number of sales.

Where do you get that NPB data from? I know that a $600k sale fell through (not sure if it's been disputed yet) and the $2m "sale" of ebookee (which is relisted). Admittedly, ebookee isn't worth anywhere near $2m so not sure that is technically a NPB, but still...

**Clinton** · July 26th, 2012, 5:02 AM

The $2M didn't make it into the figures. The $600K auction ended mid-June so the spike in my image should give an indication of when the dispute affected the graph.

**monty** · July 26th, 2012, 5:28 AM

Another possible anomaly ( on the Flippa sold page) is PlanetRx . Listed as sold 6 months ago at $1.2 million, but also listed for sale here : http://latonas.com/websites-for-sale/planetrx-com .

**Clinton** · July 26th, 2012, 6:25 AM

Well spotted! There are a lot of sites that Flippa claims as sold, but Flippa doesn't handle the transaction so doesn't really know and can't know. The most they can do when they publish their figures is provide a disclaimer explaining NPB and that their data is about "apparent" sales rather than real sales.

**grynge** · July 26th, 2012, 11:09 AM

I heard a RUMOUR today that latona did a sweetheart deal with flippa, flippa get some great sites up for auction, and latona gets some free traffic without having to pay huge success fees. The source wasn't from flippa but works near sitepoint in melbourne.

**Thomas** · July 26th, 2012, 11:53 AM

Originally Posted by grynge

I heard a RUMOUR today that latona did a sweetheart deal with flippa, flippa get some great sites up for auction, and latona gets some free traffic without having to pay huge success fees. The source wasn't from flippa but works near sitepoint in melbourne.

That might explain why they list hundreds of sites but none actually "sell"...

**Clinton** · July 30th, 2012, 9:02 AM

Originally Posted by monty

Another possible anomaly ( on the Flippa sold page) is PlanetRx .

There are a lot of anomalies.

On average Flippa sellers sell about $300K - $400K's worth of sites a week (according to Flippa's claims)

Have a look at Flippa's homepage today. In the last week they claim $407K's worth of sales, but the total sales figure has jumped by over $7 Million.

What's going on, or is it just that someone needs a new calculator?

**snowelephant** · July 31st, 2012, 7:24 AM

Are you able to see which buyers don't pay, or where they end up? It might be interesting to see where they all end up going. If not, I've seen a few sites that have scrapers that link websites by IP address/Google analytics/Adsense ID- it might be interesting to see if someone bought up a collection of "good" sites.