Flipped is a very unique idea. The site brings users new ways to shop online for all sorts of items. Users post what they want, and sellers bid your price down creating a buyoff, getting you a great deal for the item you want. Buyoffs do have a time limit, at which time the buyer can reject or accept any offer from any seller.

Not only is Flippid a buying site, but sellers can also stop by, register, and post items for free. So how does the site generate income? From sellers, of course. They take a percentage of the sale, when the item is sold. It's a great way to get people to try out the site, and actually see it work for them without dropping listing fees. Fees range from 10 cents for items under $5 to $2 for items selling for over $100.

The service was launched in mid-November, and looks to be slowly drawing a decent crowd and racking up items. Flippid does have a special promotion on now, where they pay all fees until 2007, so it could be worth giving it a shot.

[Via Emily Chang]

Devlisting.com is a great site that lists a ton of web development links. I realize that there are a lot of these sites, and you have probably built your own, but this one has a cool feature I like which helped me organize which links on the page. Once you are on the site, click the little green buttons next to the link. It will toggle between green, a pushpin, and a delete icon. You can customize the site the way you like, then come back to see only the links you like. This is a rising trend among websites. I only wish that more sites would do things like this, so I could customize them on a whim. For some reason, many sites still think it is all about them. Too bad, I'll go somewhere else. This is one thing I love about Web 2.0. Most of the sites, no matter how long they will be around, will cater to what I want as the user. This site is a good example of a small idea to this end.

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