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This should be quite interesting. $500k for 100 customers seems pricey though, but stranger things happen. Flippa.com seems to have pretty good pricing for sel

by axod 17y ago

This should be quite interesting. $500k for 100 customers seems pricey though, but stranger things happen. Flippa.com seems to have pretty good pricing for selling websites though: http://flippa.com/pricing http://flippa.com/pricing (Capped at $498 max)

imp 17y ago
Yeah, I was trying to figure out the sale price too. They have monthly plans that range from $50/month to $350/month. If we assume that they have 100 people on the $200/month plan, that's $240,000/year in revenue. So $500k could be reasonable. No idea what their expenses are though.
- ryanwaggoner 17y ago
  They have a free plan, so it's far more likely that they have 95+ people on the free plan, and a handful of paying customers. $500k+ strikes me as wishful thinking :/
  - soundsop 17y ago
    The auction says they have 100 paying customers.
icey 17y ago
$500k doesn't even meet their reserve - it's just the starting bid they've listed. Who knows how much they think this is worth. Even at $500k this seems like it's way overvalued to me.
dangrossman 17y ago
Flippa would've been the better venue for this. They get 6-figure listings pretty often now, cost less, format the listings better for selling websites, etc. For the buyers, they have very detailed search ("give me sites that are 2 years old, make at least $10,000 monthly in profit, have at least 50,000 monthly visitors, and accept escrow for payment"), e-mail alerts, RSS feeds. I have a site for sale there now: http://flippa.com/auctions/84185/11000month-Revenue-No--1-In-Market-1500-Customers http://flippa.com/auctions/84185/11000month-Revenue-No--1-In...
- axod 17y ago
  I agree. Also eBay is quite full of scammy "Ready made website for sale!!!" listings.
  - bemmu 17y ago
    I've been checking Flippa from since it was still a part of SitePoint, and about 80% of their listings are those "turn key" sites. Of the remaining ones, there is usually something fishy, like selling copyrighted content etc. Occasionally there do seem to be legit sites for sale as well, and having a separate category for "premium sites" has helped.
- breck 17y ago
  i've had some success with flippa, but even then, only marginal. i've had better success selling websites by approaching or marketing to niche buyers directly. if you make a website about tennis, tennis related companies would probably pay a lot more, and they don't spend time on flippa.
- wallflower 17y ago
  > 4 points by dangrossman 19 hours ago | link | parent | on: How WooThemes Quietly Built A $2 Million Per Year... There are over 18 million active WordPress blogs at the moment. It's a huge market. I spent a couple hours building a WordPress plugin and sold $200,000 in licenses for it in a year and a half. Wow. It obviously was not just the coding. Just reading your sales page shows you are a marketing pro.

by axod 17y ago

imp 17y ago

Yeah, I was trying to figure out the sale price too. They have monthly plans that range from $50/month to $350/month. If we assume that they have 100 people on the $200/month plan, that's $240,000/year in revenue. So $500k could be reasonable. No idea what their expenses are though.

ryanwaggoner 17y ago
They have a free plan, so it's far more likely that they have 95+ people on the free plan, and a handful of paying customers. $500k+ strikes me as wishful thinking :/
- soundsop 17y ago
  The auction says they have 100 paying customers.

icey 17y ago

$500k doesn't even meet their reserve - it's just the starting bid they've listed. Who knows how much they think this is worth. Even at $500k this seems like it's way overvalued to me.

dangrossman 17y ago

Flippa would've been the better venue for this. They get 6-figure listings pretty often now, cost less, format the listings better for selling websites, etc. For the buyers, they have very detailed search ("give me sites that are 2 years old, make at least $10,000 monthly in profit, have at least 50,000 monthly visitors, and accept escrow for payment"), e-mail alerts, RSS feeds. I have a site for sale there now: http://flippa.com/auctions/84185/11000month-Revenue-No--1-In-Market-1500-Customers http://flippa.com/auctions/84185/11000month-Revenue-No--1-In...

axod 17y ago
I agree. Also eBay is quite full of scammy "Ready made website for sale!!!" listings.
- bemmu 17y ago
  I've been checking Flippa from since it was still a part of SitePoint, and about 80% of their listings are those "turn key" sites. Of the remaining ones, there is usually something fishy, like selling copyrighted content etc. Occasionally there do seem to be legit sites for sale as well, and having a separate category for "premium sites" has helped.
breck 17y ago
i've had some success with flippa, but even then, only marginal. i've had better success selling websites by approaching or marketing to niche buyers directly. if you make a website about tennis, tennis related companies would probably pay a lot more, and they don't spend time on flippa.
wallflower 17y ago
> 4 points by dangrossman 19 hours ago | link | parent | on: How WooThemes Quietly Built A $2 Million Per Year... There are over 18 million active WordPress blogs at the moment. It's a huge market. I spent a couple hours building a WordPress plugin and sold $200,000 in licenses for it in a year and a half. Wow. It obviously was not just the coding. Just reading your sales page shows you are a marketing pro.