Hacker News Reader

Comment by ejb999 | Hacker News Reader

$99/month to see the list of what is for sale, without even a preview? thanks, but no thanks - the seller should pay your fees/commission if you make them a sale, potential buyers aren't going to pay upfront to see an unknown list of things for sale.

View on HN

Subscription is a common model for things like this, particularly because it’s so easy for people to make direct approaches to the vendor, cutting out the middleman to avoid the commission/fees

> because it’s so easy for people to make direct approaches to the vendor

I like the way Flippa does it: https://flippa.com/

Show what's listed, show basic financials and an asking price. Only after a buyer sees something interesting are they asked to jump through hoops to create an account, etc.

Looking at the listings, they would be really hard to de-anonymize.

Perhaps this will be recursive - the site creator will list the site on itself.

Seems very expensive for a listing service.

They are all following acquire.com(previously microacquire) model where sellers don't pay but buyers do. Since it became popular, lot of similar "inspired" products are coming up.

On the other hand without a commission this means there isn't a perverse incentive to fake data and sell stuff like it happens with other services.

Kk I’ll make a copy of this after my current contract is up. $10 a month take it or leave it.

They offer a 7 day refund period

Reply on news.ycombinator.com