26 new products coming up

It's been quiet on Flipz.be. We have been busy doing all kind of things in preparing our next big move. Our customers have been begging us for new products, and can finally announce that these are coming. Not less than 26 new products will be added to our catalog over the next few days. That's our biggest addition yet.

So stay tuned!

1000 likes on Facebook!

Today, after only a few months, we have already passed 1000 "likes".

Like a lot of other websites we feature an "I Like" button provided by Facebook. It tracks how many people actually like our site and want to tell their friends about it. Once clicked, everyone can dislike it again, make the counter go down again.

As of today, 1000 different people have told the world they like our side. Actually, it means that the group of people that likes our site is 1000 more than the group that doesn't.

That is quite a big number. And we feel very honored by it.

Thank you!

New formula for reserve prices

Summer's in the air. This will be the 3rd Summer since we started Flipz.be in 2009. So we already know what that means: more people outside and less people before their computers. Last summer we introduced our reserve prices along with our unique bonus system after we had to ship yet another PS3 for €0.06 (really happened!).

With this year's summer in mind, we are slightly tuning this system. The reserve prices will be set using a more sophisticated curve. Many articles, mostly the cheaper ones, will see a lower reserve price. Where the most expensive items, especially those over €1000, will now get a much higher reserve price.

This will allow us to continue our business even when the sun is shining and the weather is so nice nobody wants to stay in. We can still offer our products on a daily basis like we do now. The serious players can still grab whatever they want. And because of the greater diversity in the reserve prices. More items will actually be sold, while other players will be able to create a bigger bonus.

After all, the next autumn will arrive sooner as we'd all like. And it's always nice to have lots of flipz ready by then... :)

Even faster than before!

Starting today, we'll be using a compiled code for Flipz.be. Thanks to this improvement, it will be able to handle all actions in an even more fluent way. The system will therefore be under a lot less stress while providing the exact same functionality. This will assist us in the further development and expansion of the site. While it saves us on hardware.

For you, dear participant, it means that the site will be even more responsive. Everything will feel faster and smoother. And that we will soon be able to offer you more auctions at once... Stay tuned for that!

Flipz.be to welcome residents out of 10 more EU countries!

Up until now, Flipz.be has been limited to only 13 EU-countries. The main reason for this is because we need to be able to actually deliver all the things we sell on the site. That means having a local distributor. And that's not an easy task if you're not physically in that country, or if you don't speak the language.

Today, we are happy to announce that we will soon be opening up to residents of the following list of EU countries:

• Czech Republic
• Estonia
• Greece
• Latvia
• Lithuania
• Hungary
• Poland
• Portugal
• Slovenia
• Slovakia

This brings the total number of counties to 23! All these people can now subscribe and participate in the auctions. They have 4 languages to pick from: Dutch, French, English or German. With a 5th one, Italian, being added shortly.

This is your chance to start recruiting "followers" (~ referrals) in those new countries, using your personal link. That way you will be rewarded some free flipz every time they buy some!

COMING SOON to www.flipz.be !

Italian version is coming!

We have noticed something very strange lately. For a very long time, Flipz.be has only been available in Dutch, French and English. However, people from 13 EU-countries were allowed to sign up and participate. They had to do so in one of these three languages though.

Well, to be honest, that didn't really work out as well as we had hoped. Belgium, Holland, Luxembourg and France have been a success from the day they opened. But people in the other 9 countries were just not biting... Except for Italy!

Today, the Italians already make up the 4th biggest nationality on Flipz.be. They are larger in numbers than people from the UK, Ireland, Spain, Germany, Austria and the Scandinavian countries all together! They seem to prefer English. But French and Dutch are also in use in Italy. And remember when we launched the German version a while back, well guess what the nationality of the first subscriber was? A German-speaking Italian!

So it's fair to say that the Italians seem to love Flipz.be!

That's why we will soon launch a version of Flipz.be completely in Italian.

Coming soon to www.flipz.be !

German version has been launched!

A few days ago we put up a teaser "Sprechen Sie Deutsch?"

Today we can proudly announce that the German version is live! It is the 4th language to be added to Flipz.be, after Dutch, French and English. But this is the only language so far, which we cannot speak ourselves.

We can now welcome all German speakers in their own language!

If you know people who had a hard time with Dutch, French or English, then now is the time to pass them your personal link and make them followers. This will earn you a whole lot of free flipz. And there are more than 150 million German-speaking Europeans out there to reach. So what are you waiting for? Contact them right now... :)