About Us
FBA Flip.io is a marketplace for premium Amazon FBA businesses. Professional buyers connect with vetted sellers, and bid on premium quality FBA deals more efficiently, with better outcomes for all parties.
Why FBA Flip?
Accuracy
Transparency
Efficiency
Value
Meet The Team
DAVID DAVIS II
Founder/CEO
David has been into the eCommerce / online retail space for 8 years. Over the course of that time, his eCommerce projects have generated over 7 figures in sales across a portfolio of websites. David founded FBA Flip in 2022, a seller-friendly platform for Amazon FBA sellers to buy & sell Amazon FBA businesses.
Tim DiStefano
Co-founder/COO
Over the last five years, Tim has worked as an operations manager on a portfolio of eCommerce direct-to-consumer (DTC) websites generating more than $3M in sales. As Lead M&A associate, Tim directly discusses and facilitates all aspects of the acquisition process from legal to CPA assistance with the seller and prospective buyers.
Ben Malbasa, J.D.
General Counsel
Since graduating cum laude from Case Western Reserve University's School of Law in 2008, Ben Malbasa has worked with businesses and individuals to reach their business goals. Whether assisting in business formation, practice, transition, or sale, Ben's focus is on helping his clients improve their processes, anticipate challenges, and solve problems.
FAQ
FBA Flip.io is a marketplace exclusively for Amazon FBA business acquisitions.
We’re the first of our kind as we’re a seller-friendly platform focused on ensuring Amazon sellers choosing to exit their business with FBA Flip.io get the maximum payout for their business!
We bring value to sellers by matching sellers with an Investment associate, M&A/Legal advisor and CPA to assist them A-Z through their exit process. We then run a competitive bidding process among professional FBA/digital asset buyers for your deal.
- We have the largest source of exclusive, high quality deal flow. We get the best deals because sellers know by working with FBA Flip.io, they’ll get the best offers as over 55+ Professional FBA Buyers use FBA Flip.io. Our process ensures they will receive professional M&A assistance through the entire process, and that they get the best deal in the market for their business without a broker commission.
- Relevant Amazon KPI Due Diligence and Professional Valuation. We know what data buyers need and our professional Amazon Due Diligence team uses exclusive Amazon KPI (Key Performance Indicators) software integrating directly with our sellers Amazon Seller Central accounts. This saves you tons of time and energy in due diligence and allows you to streamline the process. We also provide sellers with an analytically-based valuation determined by multiple factors (KPIs, TTM, Overall Business Health, etc.) to help the seller and the buyer have a data-driven barometer of what the business is worth to decrease bandwidth in negotiations as well as eliminate unrealistic valuation expectations.
- Professional M&A Process. At FBA Flip.io, we take our seller’s exit readiness very seriously to ensure our deals have motivated sellers ready to close a deal with the right buyer.
- Only pay when a deal is closed. FBA Flip.io is of no cost to buyers until a deal is closed. There are no retainers or subscription fees. We charge only a success fee when a deal successfully closes.
- Get the best deal in the market without a broker commission. Our professional team creates your deal listing, generates competition among professional buyers on our platform (private investors, PE firms and aggregators) and fields multiple qualified offers for your Amazon FBA business.
- We’re With You At Every Step. This is not a DIY platform. Our team works with you to build an excellent, data-based listing for your business. Even long before selling the listing will become a valuable resource showing you where your business stands on the metrics that matter to buyers (and where you could improve). When the time is right to sell you have a well crafted and optimized listing ready to go.
- No broker commissions or fees for sellers. With FBA Flip.io, buyers pay a fee, sellers pay nothing!
- We conduct a highly competitive bidding process on every FBA deal which means when you list with FBA Flip.io, you’re getting the best offer for your business. Our list of VC-funded, professional buyers are willing to compete for your deal. All buyers must provide proof of funding, liquidity and demonstrate a successful acquisition background before becoming a verified buyer on FBA Flip.io.
- Standardized deal terms makes comparing offers easy. All buyers use the same standardized terms to protect against unfavorable terms and make it easy to see who is truly offering the best deal.
- No Obligation. You can say “no” to any and all offers.
FBA Flip.io’s fee structure is simple. Sellers pay 0% and buyers only pay a “success fee” for closed deals. There are no other fees of any kind. We strive to create a standardized, efficient way for both buyers and sellers to close deals.
Every buyer that comes onto the FBA Flip.io platform is thoroughly vetted through an internal due diligence review to ensure we maintain a high-level of professional buyers on the platform. At a minimum we require a track record of successful acquisitions and proof of funds/liquidity to acquire FBA assets.
We list Amazon FBA businesses with over $250,000 in seller’s discretionary earnings (SDE) annually.
FBA Flip.io is an extremely seller-friendly platform with an emphasis on making sure we provide maximum value to sellers listing on FBA Flip.io. We match every seller with an M&A Advisor/Attorney, Investment Associate, and CPA to assist the seller in deal structuring, financial documentation prep, negotiations etc.
Yes, every listing on FBA Flip.io is exclusive for 60 days to FBA Flip.io. If no deal is closed within that time frame, the seller has the option to pull their listing or keep it on the platform non-exclusively with no exclusive obligation to FBA Flip.io at that point.