In the last few hours, Sitepoint officially moved their marketplace to Flippa.com. Content/services will remain on SP marketplace. Hopefully this won't influence Sitepoint marketplace traffic significantly, after all the digital goods market is vast. The new name annoys me but I won't get into it. It was probably a good choice though - it's hard to forget and appeals to a less geeky audience. All I can think of is dolphins.
It's quite strange as Sitepoint is one of those forums that I know well but I have never joined. I've just had a look and it all looks a bit confusing! In the SitePoint marketplace, do you need to pay to create a listing?
Wow, its now $19 to start an auction, even for new sites, plus a 5% success fee? I was going to be starting to flip 'new' websites but it doesnt seem worth the effort now. DP might start getting a bit more traffic for the lower end site sales
Yeah, I find that new 5% success fee pretty annoying aswell. I guess I'll only be using Flippa as a last resort for my website sales from now on.
exactly. on sitepoint the cost for new sites was $10, and thats fine with such a large audience who is obviously there for buying sites. But when it is $19 plus roughly $5 success fee thats a lot of money for sites that were selling on average around the $80 mark (for basic newbie sites) still worth it at the high end, but when fees start totalling one third of the cost of what you sell a site at (price, not profit) you basically eat away the profit margin and make it pointless. So many people will be looking at alternatives for selling start up sites - hence thinking DP will get a lot more traffic for them
I think it'd be better if they just got rid of the 5% success fee altogether and instead made the listing fee higher. Makes it alot easier for sellers. Couldn't agree with you more about the fees eating away at the profit margin.
I think it will still do ok, and I suspect the high listing fee is to get rid of the $50-100 price range worthless turnkey sites that you always see for sale on sitepoint.
thats my point - you are likely to see those come to DP now. they are far from worthless - by very definition they have a worth. Also it seems very likely they will go - which makes it odd that sitepoint are willing to change to a business model that means they are very unlikely to get that income stream ($10 a pop before, plus extras if needed) now. i am sure they have their reason and the new business model factors that in, just seems odd to basically throw away such business that was having large number of people using the service.
I'm trying now .... the sitepoint marketplace ... trying to sell a domain hope it ends well as all recomand that's the place to go to do serious sells ..
It looks okay, not a huge fan. The design looks fairly cheap. However, I think they have made the right choice to make it its own website. We'll see in the long run how it works out for them.
If you're selling a site for more than a couple hundred dollars, the fees are quite reasonable. Of course, everyone can determine for themselves whether or not its worth the price though. One important point: You can choose the split the success fee with the winning bidder, or turn it into a buyers premium (where the buyer pays the entire 5% to Flippa upon winning).
I'm with you on this one, the pricing will just result in deals being done outside of the site and just closed down. Wonder if they will learn to spot scam sites, or just let the scammers delete any comment that raises flags to a scam.
ruling out the huge number of sales that went on under that figure I would be very interested to see how they believe this will raise the profits they make. Everything about it, the bugs, the prices, the lack of differentation between types of site - suggests a very half arsed planning structure. I am sure this is not the case, it would be daft for it to be, but I just don't see what the thinking behind it is