How do bids and offers work?

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• In an auction listing, prospective Buyers place bids to meet or beat the listing's reserve price and win the auction
• In a classified listing, prospective Buyers make offers that the Seller can accept to make a sale, counteroffer, or reject and cancel negotiation

How offers work in a classified listing

In a classified sale, the offer amounts are kept private from other users, only the Seller knows the values of the offers that have been made.

• To make an offer, a prospective Buyer clicks on the Make Offer button and enters an offer amount of 15% or more of the asking price into the box and clicks on the Place Offer button.
• Any offer submitted via the Make Offer process may be accepted, countered, or rejected by the Seller.
• By accepting an offer, the Seller ends the listing and commits to selling the assets to that user at that price as the Buyer. In order to access Flippa's offer management tools, logged-in sellers select My Account, click on My Listings, and then on Pending Offers.

Rejecting offers

Sellers may reject any offer they choose. Only an accepted offer obligates the Buyer and Seller to proceed.

Automatic rejection

If the Seller doesn't accept or reject an offer within 72 hours of receiving it, Flippa will automatically reject that offer.

How bids work in an auction listing 

In an auction sale, the current value of the bidding is displayed on the listing page. We use Automatic Bidding (also known as Proxy Bidding) to place bids.

• If you’ve decided to bid on a listing, enter the maximum amount you’re willing to pay for the website or domain in the bid field.
• The seller will need to approve you as a bidder before your bid is valid. Once you’ve been approved, each additional bid will automatically be placed, up to your maximum.
• Our automatic bidding system will increase your bid by regular increments each time you are outbid, up to your maximum bid. This gives you the best chance to win the auction, while still controlling how much you’re willing to pay.
• If your bid is under the seller’s reserve, we will bid on your behalf up to your maximum, and notify you that your maximum bid is under the reserve.
• If your maximum bid is over the seller’s reserve, we will bid on your behalf up to the reserve. You will then be in the lead to win this auction.

Who can see the maximum bid amounts?

Your maximum amount won’t be shown to other bidders, or to the seller, but you can see your own maximum bid on the listing’s page, and increase it if you’d like.

As a seller, can I remove a bid that I've accepted?

No, remember that you have not accepted a bid, but a bidder, into your action (which we call a bid preference). That said, once you have accepted a bid preference, the bid(s) that have already been made cannot be removed. You can remove a user's bid preference, but once again this will not remove the bids already made - it will only remove the user's ability to bid further.

What if two bidders place identical maximum bids?

If two buyers place the same maximum bid, the one whose bid was placed first will prevail. Even if the seller approves pending bidders in a different order, the first bid placed will be the winner and the second bidder notified they’ve been outbid. This will be reflected in the bid history — if multiple maximum bids for the same amount were accepted, the first bid placed (the current winner) will be at the top of the list.