Disclaimer
The short version: bizflip is a place to find each other, not a source of verified fact. Almost everything you read here was written by the person it describes.
We do not verify listings
Business listings — the revenue, the profit, the staff count, the reason for selling, the asking price — are supplied by the seller or their broker. We do not audit them, inspect the business, review its books, or confirm that it exists as described. A listing on bizflip is an invitation to make your own enquiries. It is not a representation by us that anything in it is true.
Some listings carry a data level. That measures how much of our Deep Dive Q&A the seller completed and how much supporting material they uploaded — it is a measure of completeness, not of accuracy. A fully completed listing can still be wrong.
We do not verify brokers
Licence numbers shown on a broker’s page are masked and are not released. The jurisdiction is published so you can check the public register yourself, which is a better check than a number we have not confirmed. We do not confirm that a licence is current, that an accreditation was awarded, or that an award was won — accreditations, qualifications and awards are entered by the broker or their firm and are published as entered, with the awarding body beside them so you can verify them directly.
Where a brokerage publishes figures about its own track record, those figures are theirs and are labelled on the page as stated by the firm. How we count, and what we don’t explains exactly what we do and do not check, and what our “matches our records” note does and does not mean.
A valuation is an estimate, not advice
InstaValu and every other valuation output on bizflip is produced by an automated model from figures you supply. It is a starting point for a conversation. It is not a formal valuation, not an appraisal prepared by a qualified valuer, not financial product advice, not tax or legal advice, and not a price any buyer is obliged to pay. Two honest valuers routinely disagree about the same business by a wide margin.
Nothing on bizflip takes account of your objectives, financial situation or needs. Before acting on anything here, get advice from someone licensed to give it.
We are not a party to your deal
bizflip does not act as agent for a buyer or a seller, does not negotiate on anyone’s behalf, and is not a party to any agreement made between users. Documents generated here — NDAs, letters of intent, heads of agreement, engagement letters — are templates to work from. They are not drafted for your transaction and have not been reviewed by a lawyer for your circumstances. Have your own lawyer read anything you intend to sign.
Forward-looking figures
Projections, growth rates, multiples, forecasts and “what if” scenarios are estimates about the future. They are not promises and they are frequently wrong.
External links
We link to third-party sites and services. We do not control them and are not responsible for their content, their accuracy, or what they do with your information.
What we do stand behind
A small number of figures on this platform are counted by us from our own records, and where that is the case the page says so. Those we stand behind as an accurate record of what happened on bizflip — though even then they describe activity here, not a business’s or a brokerage’s complete history.
Nothing in this disclaimer excludes or limits any guarantee, right or remedy that cannot lawfully be excluded — including under the Australian Consumer Law, or the equivalent consumer protections in the United Kingdom and the United States.