Is Empire Flippers Legit?
Written by Christopher Krassnig - Founder - Kairos Exchange and ZenoX Media.
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- Checks in every memo8
- Automatic on day one3 of 8
- Read by handad spend and processor payouts
- Tracked ecom salesEUR 200M+ZenoX ad-management figures, not Kairos deal volume - Kairos hasn't closed a deal yet.
Empire Flippers is a legitimate brokerage that has sold online businesses for over a decade and was unusually open about its screening. The last time it published a rejection-rate study, checked 11 August 2026, only about 9 in 100 submissions made it to the marketplace. The thing to weigh is not their honesty, it is the disclosure work before the answer comes back.
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The Rejection Rate Is the Product
Empire Flippers still hosts a rejection-rate study on its own site, checked on 11 August 2026: 6,413 submissions, analyzed across the twelve months from July 2020 to June 2021, the page marked updated 7 December 2022. The last time they published the number, it was stark: roughly 91 percent of those submissions were rejected. That is a strange thing to brag about until you see it from the buyer's side. It is the whole pitch: a buyer reading their marketplace knows a person already said no to about ten businesses for every one on the page. Their own breakdown puts about 64 percent of those rejections at the first five-minute criteria check, so most stores never reach a human reading books.
What It Costs a Seller to Find Out
Their published description of the in-vetting stage is candid: sellers work through tasks to build a profit and loss statement, and it says that can take weeks or months. That effort happens before you know the answer. If the no comes at the end of it, you have a tidier P&L and no listing, which is worth something but not what you came for.
Where the Kairos Model Differs
Kairos does not screen you on size or category before looking. The store connects read-only, the checks run against real orders, and the result is a memo either way, usually in days. A failed check names the claim that did not hold instead of returning a verdict. Same problem, different answer. Theirs is a gate at the front door. Ours is a check on the numbers, run for anyone who asks.
Related questions
Checked against
- Empire Flippers: rejection rate and vetting process - read 11 August 2026
- Empire Flippers commission calculator - read 29 July 2026
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Answered. Now Get Your Numbers Proven
Sellers on the list go through verification first when we open. Reading up is step one. Having your revenue proven from your own orders is step two.