Ask HN: What's Your Experience With Flippa?

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15 years ago

I'd like to build a website, cultivate it a bit, and then ultimately sell it so I decided to poke around on www.flippa.com today to see what people were actually buying. For the fun of it, I sorted by price and was looking through some of the sites that sold for around $10K (USD) and I was shocked to see that:

- a lot of them didn't seem to be much more than a hastily thrown together Wordpress blog

- a lot of the sites claimed high Google page ranks but the only way I could find them was by Googling their actual URL (They didn't specify the keywords they had high ranks for)

- a lot of them didn't even claim traffic numbers

What do you think is going on with that? Are there people out there that'll really buy a website no matter what and try to make it big? Have you ever bought or sold anything on Flippa? Any tips?

Thanks in advance HN!

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