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Thanks to sheff for mentioning my non-profit experienced-people.net forum which discusses website purchases and sales. This site has sent us a fair bit of traffic yesterday :-)

Flippa is one of the many avenues one can use to sell a site or find one to buy. It has a high profile but in dollar terms accounts for a small proportion of online businesses sold. However, it's a popular location for webmasters and lower end websites and I recommend the flipfilter.com site for stats on the Flippa marketplace.

My own analysis is somewhat different. As I commented in the sparklewise blog (the OP link), figures you see in Flippa are deceptive. The $200K site mentioned at (D) in his blog post was sold a month later by the same seller for $40K. The chances are the first sale didn't go through. That's not an isolated case. I would advise that readers exercise caution, it's easy to get carried away with the large figures :)

I've been doing my own analysis of some Flippa stats (http://experienced-people.net/forums/showthread.php/6331) and the numbers are just not adding up for me.