How your money is protected
Trust from the mechanism, not from marketing.
You don't have to take our word for anything. Here is exactly what stands between your money and a bad outcome, at every step of a deal.
Everyone you deal with has passed an ID check
Every buyer and seller must verify their identity, a government-ID + selfie check run by a licensed provider, before they can list, enquire or sign. No anonymous counterparties.
Publicly, everyone still appears under an anonymized handle. The ID check confirms there's a real, named person behind it, and that record is available if a deal ever goes to mediation.
The money is held, never sent straight to the seller
The buyer pays the agreed price to EcomFlips, not to the seller, and pays nothing on top of it. We hold that money from the moment it lands until the handover is confirmed: the seller cannot touch it, and the seller cannot be scammed by a fake payment either, because nothing unlocks until the money is genuinely in the account.
We are not a bank or a licensed escrow provider and we do not pretend otherwise. What protects you is the mechanism: the money only moves on your confirmation, every step is recorded, and if the deal falls through before the payout the buyer gets it all back.
Assets move on a dual-confirmed checklist, and only after funding
The transfer checklist unlocks only once we confirm the buyer's money has landed. It's built for exactly what a store carries: the store platform, domain, ad and merchant accounts, socials, suppliers and email list.
Every item has to be confirmed by both the seller (handed over) and the buyer (received). Nothing is taken on trust; each confirmation is timestamped into an append-only record.
An inspection window before the money releases
Once the transfer is complete, the buyer gets an inspection window to verify everything is as described: 24 hours under €5,000, and 1 days above it.
If the buyer confirms (or the window passes without a dispute), funds release to the seller, minus our success fee. If something's wrong, they raise a dispute and the money stays put.
Disputes have a referee
If a dispute is opened during inspection, the deal freezes. EcomFlips mediates with the full record: offers, the signed agreement, every checklist confirmation and message.
The outcome (payout, refund, or a partial split) is executed by us from the money we are still holding. Neither side can quietly walk off with the money or the store.