Flippa Rolls out Flippa Classifieds

June 15, 2013 by

Flippa announced on Friday that they were rolling out a classified section.  The announcement was made in a blog post and they already have the section up and running. The thinking goes that since people are coming to the site to buy and sell websites, that they can also facilitate all the many needs webmasters and small business owners may need to run and grow their business. It also will give members a chance to sell their services and make some money themselves.

Here is a look at the categories:

General Classifieds

  1. Affiliate Programs
  2. Help Wanted
  3. Link Exchange
  4. Partnership Proposals
  5. Traffic Generation
  6. Wanted to Buy
  7. Everything Else

Now you are also going to be able to sell your products or services that may be in demand from site visitors. This is making some wonder is Flippa looking to be a Fiverr clone ? Ophelie LeChat made it quite clear in the comments that they are not looking to be another Fiverr with this product offering.

It may not be the goal to be a Fiverr clone but with the traffic coming through Flippa it could certainly bring a lot of transactions for things like scripts and content writing, just to name a few. Flippa certainly has an incentive as they will be making some decent money if the section becomes popular.

Get your listings in front of Flippa’s multitude of savvy website owners, from just $5 for a two-week listing!

You can then pay for a sticky which costs $20. You can also highlight the background for another $10.

Personally I think this section is going to be another good revenue stream for Flippa, provided they install what a few have already asked for, which is a rating system. This is needed to insure the quality and trustworthiness of the classifieds.  You have to allow members the ability to let the community know if someone writes good content for example, or if they are spinning articles or scraping them.

Should be interesting to see how much promotion Flippa puts behind the classifieds.

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Fiverr Reinventing Itself

June 4, 2013 by

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Fiverr has been known as the place to get what you need for $5. Whether it be 1000 Twitter followers or someone to sing your jingle or make a silly video it was $5. Today they have changed that, I first noticed the change on Fiverr and then checked Google. Venture Beat has a good article detailing the change today.

From the article:

Fiverr “reinvented” itself today, keeping the five but adding two zeroes behind it as the everything-for-five-dollars marketplace goes upscale, seeking to power the emerging “gig economy.”

The new Fiverr now offers a dramatically new design that transforms the existing mostly text-based Fiverr into a very visual, almost app-store-like experience. The new look also extends to individual “Gig Pages” for Fiverr users, which offers a richer display of sellers, their talents, and their buyer feedback.

You can read that full story here.

Businesses have to keep adjusting to the changing needs of their members. I know there were times where I would see someone want more than $5 for a gig and they would ask people to buy multiple orders. I do think that part of the allure of Fiverr is that its $5, you knew going there if you needed a logo or an intro for example, that it was going to be just $5. Now you may do a search and see what you want and then notice. “Oh its $200 ?

It will be interesting to see if someone new comes into the space and sticks with $5.

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It Pays To Be The Boss

May 31, 2013 by

Venture Beat put out a story today about the highest paid CEO in the country, and you probably don’t know his name. John H. Hammergren.  I am not sure why they think readers have never heard of McKesson ? Its a pretty big company.

From the article:

But Mr. Hammergren is the highest-paid CEO in America, according to a CEO compensation study by Bolt Insurance, pulling in a not-too-shabby $131 million last year for his health-care and pharmaceuticals company. That’s thanks to cashing in a significant number of stock options in addition to his base salary.

McKesson had sales of $122 billion in 2012.

Bolt Insurance put together this infographic on why its good to be the boss.http://i2.wp.com/venturebeat.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/ceo-pay-infographic.jpg?w=610

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Flippa Five Figure Sales for the week led by T10Sr.com

May 25, 2013 by

There were 6 sales this week that hit the five figure mark. The best of the bunch imo looked to be Picksor.com which really had a great design and included some extras that will certainly help grow the business.

T10SR.com $47,900 47 bids

Remote WordPress Web based Software,3 Business Application, 1 made $70K in trial

Description

As you already know that WordPress is a huge open source application and 74 millions Corporate & armature bloggers life depend on it. So to make their life easier we have created this Remote WordPress Application named T10SR and by T10SR power we have create the trail business name WPRealBOT what is now become established business, in short time WPRealBOT earned $70K+

Claimed Financials
Gross Revenue (3 month avg) $16,440
Net Profit (3 month avg)     $15,240

The listing is very long and seems from the comments that the original buy it now was $500,000.

Full Listing Here

Picksor.com $21,100 7 bids

Astrology HQ Content Website On Autopilot- 90% organic – $3200/m & 90k uniques/m

Description

Picksor Astrology is the collective wisdom of astrology knowledge and ethics where our objective is to show the future in a true and honest mirror, to the best of our ability. It is is one of the largest and most authoritative astrology website on the net with loyal audience and dedicated community. 

Verified Traffic
Pageviews (3 month avg)     227,975
Uniques (3 month avg)     90,137

Claimed Financials
Gross Revenue (3 month avg)     $3,553
Net Profit (3 month avg)     $3,553
Verified AdSense Revenue (3 month avg) $1,054

Really is a good looking site imo and they also added in a Twitter app that sends out tweets on the hour with regard to all the birth signs. Professional listing that did a great job of explaining everything.

Full Listing Here

TunesPack.com $15,600 130 bids

Automated e-commerce website with exclusivity and no reserve

Description

What is TunesPack.com?
it’s a package of background music that product creators and video producers license to use in their projects. This website comes with an exclusive collection of 273 royalty-free background tracks. These tracks were created using the popular GarageBand software by Apple. You could hire someone or create more music yourself to sell to the existing customer base quite easily.

This was an interesting listing as there was no traffic or financials listed. I do know with so much content creation especially in videos that there is a demand for royalty free music to use for intro and background. 130 bids is a lot of bids for an auction so there did seem to be good interest in this one.

Full Listing Here

Spotonlists.com $14,000 1 bid

Authority Blog gets 350,000 Visitors/Month & makes $1500/month through Adsense

This auction is for a List focused Wordpress Content blog SpotOnLists.com that gets around 350,000 unique visitors a month and makes around $1500 per month and has a potential for a lot of growth.

The website currently has 1029 quality articles (as of 21st may 2013). Each article has at least 1400 words and is absolutely unique and has quality Content and authority.

Claimed Traffic
Pageviews (3 month avg)     490,000
Uniques (3 month avg)     350,000

Claimed Financials
Gross Revenue (3 month avg) $1,166
Net Profit (3 month avg)     $966
Verified AdSense Revenue (3 month avg) $529

Just one bidder on this one and it was a short auction running for 4 days.

Full Listing Here

WorldPopulationReview.com $13,814 37 bids

 

Description

At a glance…

  • World Population Review (WPR) was founded in January 2012. It takes complex statistics about demographics and turns them into clear and easy to understand articles.
  • The site is monetised with Google Adsense. Between November 2012 and April 2013 it earned $3,998.27 (avg $666.38/month). April income was $844.24. Income for the first seven days in May is $347.43 – based on this trend, I anticipate total income for May to be comfortably over $1,000.
  • The recent increase in income is because adsense placement was very conservative initially. In mid-April 2013 a change of ad units led to a significant increase in RPM.
  • 686,912 unique visitors viewed WPR between November 2012 and April 2013 – an average of 114,485 unique visitors per month. There is lots of scope to further increase income and traffic with minimal effort.
  • WPR has 573 total backlinks from 137 unique domains. It’s current PageRank is 3.
  • Sale includes custom database of 4,198 keywords and 30 ready-to-publish articles.

Verified Traffic
Pageviews (3 month avg)     116,259
Uniques (3 month avg)     87,792

Claimed Financials
Gross Revenue (3 month avg) $649
Net Profit (3 month avg)     $625
Verified AdSense Revenue (3 month avg)$640

Interesting and creative website, certainly has done a good job getting traffic.

Full Listing Here

PattJudd.com $11,000 62 bids

$473 AdSense Last 7 days, PR1 Aged, Home Design Blog, Unique Content

Description

PattJudd.com is a site i bought few weeks ago. Currently the site have 184 Posts posted on the site, the old owner said, all articles is bought from professional article writer. All images is taken from google images, downloaded, resized and manually uploaded, so there’s no copyright issue with the site. Also the site have About, Privacy Policy, TOS and Contact Us page to request image removal (if any).

Claimed Traffic
Pageviews (3 month avg)     42,839
Uniques (3 month avg)     14,844

There was no claimed financails for the site, which deals with Home Decor and Architecture. The seller is actually reflipping the site and was not the creator.

Full Listing Here

 

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Perhaps the craziest listing in the history of Flippa, $27,500,000 negotiated sale

May 23, 2013 by

This has got to be the most outrageous listing I have ever seen on Flippa. Too bad they cap their success fee at $2,000 because on $27,500,000 that is a lot of money they left on the table.

Are you an intelligent domainer ? That’s what this listing was all about and some lucky buyer negotiated after the auction at $27,500,000.  Yes, $27,500,000. The description for the auction:

You search domains whose domain only 1 message x is to register?
You are looking for domains that are independent of over 1700 domain extensions?
We break the rules!
You only need one domain, as our domains are only registering 1 x!
Say-Y.es
Yes-Y.es
1-CH.AT
PC-N.EU

The domain portfolio includes over 400 domains!
More on Cardeathbook.com

You must read the listing here

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TheArtOfTheName.com – Video: DickerMedia.com / Live Video Books / The Vegas TargetedTraffic.com Conference

May 21, 2013 by
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Topics: TheArtOfTheName.com – DickerMedia.com / Live Video Books / The Vegas TargetedTraffic.com Conference

Shane Cultra / Michael Cyger Interview:

http://www.domainsherpa.com/shane-cultra-domainshane-interview/

 

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Five Figure Website Sales at Flippa For The Week

May 18, 2013 by

There were no six figure sales this week on Flippa, the high sale was BetterVitamin.com at $28,000. There were a couple cool concepts in this weeks sales chart. Flippa even had a .mobi site sell for $10,000.

Site for sale screenshot

BetterVitamin.com $28,000 27 bids

This is a popular, well known online health magazine that generates monthly income with almost no overhead. BetterVitamin generates income from Vitamin Shoppe affiliate commissions from links in its articles, coupons, and banners.

Claimed Traffic
Pageviews (3 month avg)     48,000
Uniques (3 month avg)     19,000

Claimed Financials
Gross Revenue (3 month avg) $2,000
Net Profit (3 month avg)     $1,995

Full Listing Here

Site for sale screenshot

BoutiqueBeauties.com $16,100 29 bids

BoutiqueBeauties.com connects shops that need photos of their items with models and photographers who can provide those images. Models pay a subscription fee to be listed on the site and receive items from the shops in exchange for the photos they provide. Check out this video for a quick tour of the site for more info.

Verified Traffic
Pageviews (3 month avg)     48,763
Uniques (3 month avg)     3,970

Claimed Financials
Gross Revenue (3 month avg)     $1,376
Net Profit (3 month avg)     $1,126

I thought this was a cool business that could really be expanded by the new buyer. The video walk through was a nice touch and a really professional way to sell a website imo.

Full Listing Here

Site for sale screenshot

Instayup.com $13,000 12 bids

Instagram Followers Reseller Site,Page #1 Of Google, Making $8,000/mo

Claimed Traffic
Pageviews (3 month avg)     25,000
Uniques (3 month avg)     5,000

Claimed Financials
Gross Revenue (3 month avg) $6,166
Net Profit (3 month avg)     $5,966

There are a lot of businesses out there selling likes,follows and friends and is a pretty big underground industry. If the numbers are legit someone got a good buy.

Full Listing Here

Site for sale screenshot

LowThyroidHelp.com $12,501 2 bids

PR 2 Diet and Nutrition Site with 4,009 uniques/mo April $1270.00

Claimed Traffic
Pageviews (3 month avg)     8,592
Uniques (3 month avg)     4,009

Claimed Financials
Gross Revenue (3 month avg) $1,039
Net Profit (3 month avg)     $894

This site was successfully sold on Flippa 8 months ago for $9,000. This buyer listed it a couple weeks ago and got a high bid of $7,500 with no sale.

Full Listing Here

Site for sale screenshot

CanIGiveMyBaby.com $10,400 73 bids

BOGO! #1 on Google, PR3, Baby Niche, Regular Adsense Income

Verified Traffic
Pageviews (3 month avg)     107,644
Uniques (3 month avg)     64,742

Claimed Financials
Gross Revenue (3 month avg) $743
Net Profit (3 month avg)     $733
Verified AdSense Revenue (3 month avg) $325

There are actually two sites that were included in this auction. The seller noted, The winning bidder will also receive Can I While Pregnant?, which is a steady earner, and a perfect complement to the Baby site. You can be there for moms-to-be, and new moms as they figure things out. How’s that for building a relationship with your visitors?

Full Listing Here

 

Site for sale screenshot

Mp3World.mobi $10,000 9 bids

Music Site with 2,000,000 uniques/mo making $1,400 /mo

A lot of traffic for a .mobi, one of the commenters mentioned the site had a high bounce rate.

Full Listing Here

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RealityPOD.com sells for $100,000 to lead all Flippa Website Sales for the Week

May 11, 2013 by

There were 7 five figure sales this week with RealityPOD.com leading the way. Selling for $100,000 RealityPOD is a blog focused on technology and gadgets. The health care sector was popular this week with a few nice sales in the health related niche.

RealityPOD.com $100,000 12 bids

Site for sale screenshot

RealityPod.com is a technology blog which has earned it’s name and reputation as a leading blog in technology and gadget niche over the years. As a meter of this reputation and follower-ship, realitypod today has over 590,000 fans on Facebook and over 70,000 followers on Twitter. In last year, realitypod has been quoted by established websites and blogs such as Forbes ( http://www.forbes.com/sites/robenderle/2011/11/11/you-the-jury-is-googles-schmidt-guilty-or-innocent-of-stealing-from-apple/ ). Realitypod has also been quoted in various print media magazines over the years.

Verified Traffic
Pageviews (3 month avg)     1,809,152
Uniques (3 month avg)     650,163

The site certainly has a strong social media following. I like the layout with quick bits to a bunch of stories that you can click to read the full story. The name doesn’t seem to lend itself to tech as I thought this would be a celebrity/reality tv blog when first reading the name. Congrats to the seller.

Full Listing Here

Decorise.com $30,000 18 bids

Site for sale screenshot

Furniture Drop Ship Site – 6k month Steady Income 19 Brands – Aged & Easy To Run

Claimed Traffic
Pageviews (3 month avg)     2,086
Uniques (3 month avg)     615

Claimed Financials
Gross Revenue (3 month avg)     $6,000
Net Profit (3 month avg)     $5,700

Very high potential drop ship furniture website.  Built on a Volusion platform. We built this business model watching others be highly successful.  The first month we were in business we set up 19 dealer accounts.

The income on this one is not verified, they say they make even more than that and are not sure how Flippa is calculating.

Full Listing Here

DoctorTipster.com $25,100 43 bids

Site for sale screenshot

Premium Quality Medical Website, Google News Approved, PR 5, Huge Potential

Verified Traffic
Pageviews (3 month avg)     120,979
Uniques (3 month avg)     73,528

Claimed Financials
Gross Revenue (3 month avg)     $1,200
Net Profit (3 month avg)     $1,150

They have done a nice job, its a competitive niche and in my opinion you have to have a high level of integrity here. The info has to be accurate and helpful.

Full Listing Here

ExploreMedicalCareers.com $19,100 120 bids

Site for sale screenshot

$1470/Month Adsense & Affiliate Site – PR2 – Passive Income

The site is 7 months old and has shown that it can generate consistent, steady revenue with absolutely no work. I started monetizing the site 3 months ago (via Google Adsense and Quinstreet’s education leads affiliate program) and since then revenue has shown consistent growth month after month.

Verified Traffic
Pageviews (3 month avg)     18,474
Uniques (3 month avg)     11,057

Claimed Financials
Gross Revenue (3 month avg)     $618
Net Profit (3 month avg)     $618
Verified AdSense Revenue (3 month avg)     $618

What was nice about this listing was the seller was straight forward and actually gave people things to think about if they were going to buy the website. There was also a commenter who found that there was good traffic coming from another website redirect. The seller said that he was including that name in the sale.

Full Listing Here

OnlineWebApplication.com $15,000 1 bid

Site for sale screenshot

A highly reputable PR 4 website.

More than 400 post and pages in different categories – Blogging, Internet, Interview Tips, JQuery, Mobile Apps, Online Games, PHP, Programming, SEO, Social Media, Software, Tech News, Tips & Tricks, Tutorials, Web Design, WordPress

The whole website is structured so that visitors can find information and navigate very fast.

Claimed Traffic
Pageviews (3 month avg)     109,200
Uniques (3 month avg)     61,729

Claimed Financials
Gross Revenue (3 month avg)     $500
Net Profit (3 month avg)     $490
Verified AdSense Revenue (3 month avg)     $187

If they got $15,000 its a very nice sale. The site is clean, the name probably should be changed to a more tech blog centric theme.

Full Listing Here

NorthernHats.com $14,000 3 bids

Site for sale screenshot

PR 2 Retail store – Hats & Caps Site with 3,178 uniques/mo making $5,821/mo

Verified Traffic
Pageviews (3 month avg)     28,228
Uniques (3 month avg)     3,178

Claimed Financials
Gross Revenue (3 month avg)     $5,821
Net Profit (3 month avg)     $5,739

I have to say I did like the look of their website, congrats to the seller.

Full Listing Here

prostatediseaseawareness.com $11,500 7 bids

Site for sale screenshot

Health Niche Site with 221,200 uniques/mo making $4,700/mo on Autopilot!

Claimed Traffic
Pageviews (3 month avg)     1,102,140
Uniques (3 month avg)     221,200

Claimed Financials
Gross Revenue (3 month avg)  $4,700
Net Profit (3 month avg)     $4,320

The site was just established in March 2013, read the comments some good back and forth.

Full Listing Here

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The Ultimate Guide to Monitoring Your Online Reputation

May 9, 2013 by

The Internet is a big place, billions of pieces of data darting all over the web. As your website or business grows its important to know what is being said about your company on the web. This can be an onerous task as there is only so much time in the day. There are services out there that can help you with the task of monitoring your reputation online.

Trackur along with AvaLaunch Media put  this infographic together, I have never used Trackur who does have something to sell in this area, but I thought the infographic was a good blueprint for those interested in monitoring their reputation with a service, or on their own. Hope you find it useful.

http://www.trackur.com/ultimate-guide-monitoring-online-reputation-infographicThe ultimate guide to monitoring your online reputation

 

 

Filed Under: Infographics, Reputation Management

Big Week For Flippa With Two 6 Figure Sales

May 4, 2013 by

It was a big week for Flippa with two six figure website sales. You always have to take everything with precaution on Flippa because you may see a website listed as sold but then sometime the deal does not go through. You usually don’t see that the sale did not go through until its relisted. I hope for these sellers everything goes through as these were some nice website sales.

Site for sale screenshotYellowee.com

Yellowee.com sold for $325,000 in a post auction negotiated deal. There were 6 bids  in the auction. The highest being $250,000.

Local Directory & Review Site with Proprietary Software for Sale
Site Established     Oct, 2010
Verified Traffic
Pageviews (3 month avg)     81,395
Uniques (3 month avg)     36,109

The site does not make really anything now, Currently, Yellowee is generating minimal revenue. The revenue amount showing on Flippa is from Adsense; we also have a few Yellowee users paying subscription fees.

Now that development is complete, the only cost would be hosting and any other development you would want to do to the site.  The $800 figure for Expenses on Flippa is the amount we pay to host all of our websites (including Yellowee).

Full listing here

Site for sale screenshotY8.net

Y8.net sold for $237,000,  with just one bid.

This auction is for 2 websites sold together as a package, Y8.net and Juegosdemariobross.net and includes the Facebook page for Y8.net

They earn 100% of their revenue from Adsense and both are over 2 years old.

Together they have been earning about $14,000 per month after recent ad optimization.

Claimed Site Age
Site Established     Aug, 2011
Verified Traffic
Pageviews (3 month avg)     3,307,321
Uniques (3 month avg)     362,599
Claimed Financials
Gross Revenue (3 month avg)     $9,100
Net Profit (3 month avg)     $13,650
Verified AdSense Revenue (3 month avg)     $10,195

Not sure how the profit was greater than the Gross Revenue.

Full listing here

Site for sale screenshotFusionStyles.info

FusionStyles.info sold for $35,000, there were 13 bids.

Interesting deal as it is 313 German Language websites in one deal. Here is the description:

I am offering for sale a network of 313 German language affiliate marketing sites. Sites are on AUTOPILOT so the only German word you need to know is Werbekostenerstattung (Advertising Fees) because next to it you will find the amount of money you have earned during the current month.

If you wonder why would you buy a German network is because there is lower competition than in USA or UK but people have very good income unemployment is low and traffic conversions are very good.

The sites are well established and they have made last month a revenue of 5426 EUR generating 3311 sales to Amazon.de affiliate program. I can prove the earnings with screenshots and if we agree the price before payment I will provide you with a guest user account to login to my Amazon.de affiliate account.

The network of sites consists of 55  old mixed TLD domains purchased from Goddady Auctions with ages between 3 years and 12 years, 200 .eu domains established by me with ages between 3 months and 2 years, and the rest .info domains age 1-3 years.

All the traffic was generated from Search Engines so there is  just the cost of hosting and domain renewals approximately 300-500$ per month. There are no paid links to maintain with monthly fees.

The sites are well established and require minimum maintenance such as renewing domains that expire and watch server load and uptime. There is no need to write German articles because the system is on autopilot activating articles from database at a given time interval.

Full listing here

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MeetingWizard.com

MeetingWizard.com sold for $45,500, there were 38 bids.

Site Established     Jan, 2001
Claimed Traffic
Pageviews (3 month avg)     2,294,726
Uniques (3 month avg)     370,298

Over 1.25 million meetings scheduled, tens of thousands of loyal business-oriented users.

Over 800K user accounts created.

Started as a hobby site, increased operational costs on high quality/high capacity hosting service now need increased revenue generation strategies.

Approximate monthly expenses:

$300 hosting, $100 bulk email service, $200 support person

Also includes entire family of domains: meetingwizard.org, meetingwizard.net

ColdFusion/SQL Server

Includes 10 hours of transitional assistance.  Additional hours at $70/hr.  Buyer will need to cooperate in security modifications.

Full listing here

Site for sale screenshot SnapShout.me

SnapShout.me sold for $15,100, there were 3 bids.

This is really an app sale, the site was established in November of 2012.

Fully functioning social iPhone app for real time sharing of photos with audio to Facebook and Twitter. It sort of falls between instagram, snapchat and vine.

We never promoted the app as it was a side project and never reached out to any bloggers or press to promote it. This could easily grow virally quite fast with some promotion and exposure.

Users enjoy the simplicity of being able to add up to 10 seconds of audio to any photo and share it socially. Full functioning website with totally custom html5 player for every snapshout (photo + audio). Think of this app like instagram but with audio.

Includes fully embedded player so these snapshouts can be in a blog. examples here: http://snapshout.me/blog/

Each snapshout can be automatically published and shared on Facebook or Twitter as well as an individual web page.

Full listing here

Site for sale screenshotThe Violet Vixen

TheVioletVixen.com sold for $30,000, there were 14 bids.

Site Established     Sep, 2012
Verified Traffic
Pageviews (3 month avg)     97,601
Uniques (3 month avg)     10,413

TheVioletVixen.com sells more than apparel and accessories, it sells a brand and a lifestyle, which is what makes this ecommerce site so valuable. If sold to the right buyer, this could easily be a multimillion dollar company in less than one year. The product line is changeable, as long as the brand remains intact. We are #1 in Google for the keyword burlesque clothing, and we have entered a market that is relatively untapped. Half of our products are dropshipped, which contributes to our low overhead.

We sell corsets more than anything, which is why we are so profitable. The landed cost of a corset is anywhere from $15-$20, and we sell them competitively below industry standard at $69.99-$79.99. We have taken a back door approach to conquering the corset market, by using our brand and our personalized community feel as leverage against overseas manufacturers mass producing similar products.

They certainly got this thing going fast as the site is only 9 months old.

Full listing here

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