Comments on: Sitepoint Founder to Flippa Customers: Stop Whining or Go To DigitalPoint

By: Ana

Ana — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 17:45:05 +0000

Totally agree. What a moronic comment and what a rip off site. Last time I use it and to hell with their regulations. I’m going somewhere else and you should too.

By: Suzanne

Suzanne — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:03:09 +0000

“There are plenty of free alternatives to Flippa to sell low end, low quality web sites. What we’re building is a quality marketplace where over 30% of the sites listed sell, and where thousands of serious cashed-up buyers frequent daily.”

There are emerging sites that will bury Flippa for it’s name calling and arrogant attitude towards the people who have made their former business, Sitepoint, what it is today and in the process, lined their pockets with our hard-earned dollars.

So you just go ahead and stand by your insulting and calling your paying customers names, Mark and see how that works for you in the long run. As for Flippa and it’s oh so savvy buyers … the site is full of the same scammers that were giving it a bad name to start with. You can try to dress a hog up, but it’s still going to be a hog.

Flippa fails to address all the fraud both from sellers and their oh so savvy buyers. They’re just trying to repackage it to make it appear high end. In the meantime, I continue to get pm’d by savvy Flippa buyers offering me pennies for my high end sites.

Flippa also fails to address the cheesy Web 2.0 design with the only thing showing above the fold is a big a** logo and enormous buy/sell buttons. They’ve stripped all real usability that the former Sitepoint had away and present us with this crap design that takes 3 or 4 clicks to do anything on the site … and charge us a higher listing fee, plus 5% success fee, while publicly insulting it’s customer base. Way to go Flippa.

By: Paul Annesley

Paul Annesley — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:58:52 +0000

Allen: I think you’re lucky that your readers (and authors!) aren’t the TechCrunch-type that need hours of placating before they’ll drop their pitch forks to go and find another witch-hunt :)

By: Allen Stern

Allen Stern — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:40:22 +0000

Thanks for stopping by Jason – good to see that Matt is willing to spend time with the techcrunch folks but not stop over here. I think I need to remember that next time ya’all ask for coverage :)

By: Jason Aiken

Jason Aiken — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:21:25 +0000

Full Disclosure…I work for 99designs.com so I know Mark Harbottle…and I can tell you that this is just a case of a poor choice of words.

Mark is a stand up guy…he is honest and direct.

Remember…this is the same person who just recently organized a huge fund raising drive that raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for the Australian Brush Fire Relief.

Knowing Mark…he was just trying to get people to see the big picture and not worry about the small stuff…it’s not about the name or the design or the minimal fee changes.

It’s about the fact that this is a vibrant marketplace…where the smart buyers and sellers go to do business…and it just got better with a host of new features that will make the buying and selling of websites easier than ever ( see here: http://bit.ly/Olv8m ).

So yes…a poor choice of words from a guy who speaks his mind…this time to a fault.

By: Anyone Who Watched Matt On Mixergy Shouldn’t Be Surprised That He Launched Flippa. — Mixergy.com

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:58:07 +0000

[...] are shocked and upset that Matt Mickiewicz, co-founder of SitePoint, took the marketplace section of that site [...]

By: Brandon Sheley

Brandon Sheley — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:25:54 +0000

That was a bit rude, but I personally don’t care how the site looks, as long as I can buy/sell websites and everything works, I’m good. But if you drive away everyone that is buying sites, than it’s a big #fail

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:09:14 +0000

What an @ss, DP is way better than Sitepoint in many categories.

By: Holden Page

Holden Page — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:37:51 +0000

Alright, so yes, that was a bit of an immature letter to say to customers, but I have to agree with him. People tend to whine about EVERYTHING that is wrong and I honestly think if he is willing to push a letter with so much confidence in it that he believes his buyers are staying, well then, I believe him. You don’t just push something like that unless

A) You want your business to fail.

B) You are amazingly confident in your product and the people that support it.

If he didn’t say this so rudely I would give him kudos. But he does bring up valid points and I am glad to see that they are willing make a change instead of conforming to the customers every whim. Businesses don’t move forward like that.

By: Wallace

Wallace — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:58:54 +0000

it’s not the right time to say whether Flippa would be successful.

By: Rich

Rich — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:37:51 +0000

It’s a shame because Sitepoint’s marketplace was good as it is. It’s not like they are in fierce competition with anyone, they were lightyears ahead of their nearest rival, which is digitalpoint.

I think it’s a good lesson for everyone to see how NOT to treat customers, but also to see if it actually gets better with all the PR that it will get

By: Darren

Darren — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:44:13 +0000

Shocking comment from Mark very arrogant and immature for a business man.

Reading the forum posts on sitepoint it seems he actually ignored people having problems with it and just slammed them.