I Lost $1200 on a Flippa Website - Avoid These Mistakes!

Published 2019-08-19
This video is about How I Lost $1200 on a Flippa Website. Flippa is a website that sells other websites as well as domains and online businesses. If you are not careful, you can get burned just liked I did. Avoid these mistakes that I made, and hopefully you can successfully buy a legitimate website on Flippa that will actually make you a profit.

Would I buy another Flippa site? See my answer here:    • Would I Buy Another Flippa Site?  

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They build all of their own sites ( no shady sellers from India) and they have full customer support and are U.S. company. The sites are cheaper for the most part and are in a highly researched niche.

All Comments (21)
  • I wasn't financial free until my 40’s and I’m still in my 40’s, bought my third house already, earn on a monthly through passive income, and got 4 out of 5 goals, just hope it encourages someone that it doesn’t matter if you don’t have any of them right now, you can start TODAY regardless your age INVEST and change your future! Investing in the financial market is a grand choice I made. Great video! Thanks for sharing! Very inspiring! I love this.
  • @darkprintsart
    I also got ripped off. We bought a site for about 900 dollars. Before we bought the site the owner even showed us the sales. Which looked legit but don't think it was true. Same like you the traffic disappears when they turnover the site. Even if you tried to verify, they have a way of faking it but making it looked legit. Like what you said... lessoned learned!
  • Tbh, I'm not sire if this was a scam like you say it was. You mentioned changing the theme immediately after getting the site and that's 100% going to affect your SEO and consequently your search rankings and traffic. It's not correct to asume that a theme changes the appearance and nothing more. It also could change the sites loading speed, content formatting, the user experience, functionality and meta data of the site. Plus having too many custom features that dont mesh with the native funtionality of wordpress (or whatever platform the site is using) could affect your SEO. The previous theme may have looked bad but could theoretically have been better if judges those metrics and that could have made a difference to your rankings. Not knowing enough about the technical aspects of a website can hurt you in the long run and that's not the sellers fault. Nonetheless i dont know anything about the seller or the previous work they did on the site so it could have been a scam and perhaps they faked the rankings and income info.
  • @majorlopez1992
    i think the 1st mistake was . You have to ask yourself, who sells a web site generating that much money for that cheap a price. That is a red flag to me.
  • @juanboria2354
    Thanks, Michael, for sharing your experience. It will help a lot of us not to make the same mistakes. You lost some money, but we all learned a lesson. If you had not learned anything, that would be a real loss. Robert Kiyosaki said, "If it cost you money, it was cheap". My best wishes for your future endeavors.
  • I am enjoying binge watching and liking the videos I missed ,. Thank you and thank Lizzie for all your hard work . 💐💐💐💐💐
  • @binhhuy5229
    Thanks for sharing ! I am a completely newbie so that kind of expericences on Flippa is so amazing and I'm sorry for your loss. Thanks so much :D
  • @leoengy
    hey, thanks for the great tips on flippa.I myself thought about doing business on flippa once. now I have an idea how it words thanks to your video.
  • @kajberrah9007
    Thank you very much for this super video I really appreciate it :)
  • Is it common for a site to sell for less then 5x it's claimed monthly income? That seems like a red flag to me.