Comments on: Buying and Selling Basics

By: Sushie

Sushie — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:41:00 +0000

It is hard to sell websites, today, people only buy websites is they could find a good juice into it like a good PR, a good traffic, a good revenue, a good number of suscribers or others things like that.
Thanks for this article. ^^

By: Cath Lawson

Cath Lawson — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 20:42:48 +0000

It sounds interesting Ben. Is it really as simple as just making the site look better, or are there other things to consider – eg. doing things to increase the profits etc first?

By: Porsche Cars, Products and LifeStyle

Porsche Cars, Products and LifeStyle — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 21:23:46 +0000

@trexpenn,

Exactly, but isn’t that why we all read this site.

@Andy,

As a former and current “domain squatter” (I prefer investor by the way) I have had and continue to own plenty of names that are valuable for their name as a generic term all by themselves (no content needed). That’s not to say I couldn’t make more if I didn’t develop them, but in some instances there is no need.

By: trexpenn

trexpenn — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 10:07:00 +0000

I guess the challenge is to get to $20K a month on a site?

By: Make Money

Make Money — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 21:00:58 +0000

Interesting. I have been doing some research on this subject lately. I “wholesale” houses so the concept is pretty much the same.

Find a bargain and pass it on to a bargain hunter.

Just a different product.

Cool. And I agree with the argument that max made above. If you have a desirable product and market it right, you’ll sell it.

Kenney

By: Max

Max — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:36:09 +0000

I disagree devjargon,

I think selling websites is much easier. The reason people have trouble selling their sites and getting the price they are asking is because their site is not as valuable as they think. If you build strong websites that have nice traffic, good profits and good rankings, you will have buyers fighting over the chance to buy your site.

If you want to get $20,000 for a website that gets little traffic and makes $300 per month, then yes selling will be difficult.

On the other hand, if you have a site that gets tons of traffic, is steadily making over $20,000 per month in profit, you’ll have no trouble finding a buyer willing to pay more than $550,000 for your site (speaking from experience)…

By: devjargon

devjargon — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:25:41 +0000

Selling websites is always harder than buying. For some reason people will never want to give you a fair price. A lot of people don’t understand bartering. Both sides need to give a little to get to a price thats liked.

On a separate note, Good to see a post from you Ben.

By: Andy - Mr MultiVar

Andy - Mr MultiVar — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:22:50 +0000

I hope domain squatters read these kinds of posts and realise that they will not sell their domain names unless they offer value in terms of some kind of website that is built and established.