Jun 16 2006
Jeremy Schoemaker

Dude Sells Landing Page On Ebay For 10,000$

By Jeremy Schoemaker 28 comments

UPDATE: I have been contacted and evidently the people who own this site here are claiming intelectual property rights to the design and plan to sue this seller and file DMCA to the buyer who uses it. VERY INTERESTING

So this auction Here
is for a “website” that makes over 12,000$ a month.

So you just won the auction and now you have contacted me because what you bought is a 1 page landing page and you just realize that they guy that sold it to you owns THIS SITE and between that and his 5k+ a month spend on PPC that is how he was able to produce the 10k/month affiliate income.

Ohh ya also now you say he wont sell you his keyword list he was using on ppc? ouch.

Congrats on winning your $10,100.00 landing page. - btw just so you know 90% of the ppc industry is using some form of that same landing page… as seen Here

It should be noted that the seller never set the price of the website and it was the idiot bidders who bid it up to the final price up

  1. R-Man said on June 16th, 2006 at 4:19 pm

    it’s amazing what people will believe. read that post - if it were even half legit, why would they ever put it on the block w/ no reserve?! if it seems to good to be true, …

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  2. roberts said on June 16th, 2006 at 4:24 pm

    “If it’s too good to be true then it probably is.”

    “A fool and his money are soon parted.”

    Isn’t it amazing how these seemingly ancient quotes still ring remarkably true today?

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  3. andy_boyd said on June 16th, 2006 at 5:34 pm

    Ouch! I thought I recognized that auction from somewhere.

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  4. garrett said on June 16th, 2006 at 5:44 pm

    the conversion ratio the guy was getting for the ringtones was pretty amazing, I can barely get a 1 in 10 ratio for free sign ups

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  5. ShoeMoney said on June 16th, 2006 at 5:45 pm

    1 in 10? I would be pretty happy with that. I guess it just depends on the spread

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  6. TD Networks said on June 16th, 2006 at 6:23 pm

    The people that bid on this are crazy and not aware of stuff on the internet. This is the second auction that went like this on eBay, the other one was for $7k for a loan program. Where is the landing page though?

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  7. Richard Overvold said on June 16th, 2006 at 6:37 pm

    Ha! Try 1 in 50 and still profitting. ;)

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  8. searchfordeal said on June 16th, 2006 at 8:56 pm

    Amazing..it si sad story. Why ppl take advantage on ppl, not even give him keywords?

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  9. Ken Savage said on June 16th, 2006 at 9:50 pm

    Jeremy you’re so mean!

    Just think how coring this world would be without idiots.

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  10. Art said on June 17th, 2006 at 12:50 pm

    There’s a reason there was no reserve… you can whip up a site like that nearly instantly. Ask Jeremy, I think he knows ringtones better than most.

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  11. GeorgeB said on June 17th, 2006 at 2:41 pm

    Sucker born every minute. Buyer should have come to digitalpoint and asked us first :)

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  12. bobmutch said on June 17th, 2006 at 11:21 pm

    Fist your first here link will you shoe. It goes to..
    http://www.freeringtoneoffer.com/%20rel=nofollow

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  13. ShoeMoney said on June 18th, 2006 at 9:09 am

    thanks bob!

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  14. Shimon Sandler said on June 18th, 2006 at 10:43 am

    Since we eat, sleep, and breathe this stuff, I think it’s easy to forget how clueless the mass population is about internet mktg. A lot still have the mentality of…if you build it, they will come.

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  15. RM said on June 20th, 2006 at 11:26 am

    Private ID bids on eBay are fake. That’s why they’re private. It’s an old trick. Owner with multiple accounts bidding on his own stuff. Sham bidding or shill bidding, whatever the terms is for this activity. It’s a bait for suckers.

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  16. Grokodile said on June 21st, 2006 at 3:06 pm

    Shoot, I’m in the wrong business.

    Later guys, I don’t have time to chat, I’ve got some landing pages to sell off…

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  17. L0zo said on June 22nd, 2006 at 3:28 am

    Where can we buy a template like that! I want one!

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  18. Marc said on June 27th, 2006 at 4:38 am

    I can sell you some for as low as $9.999

    ^^

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  19. Pootis said on August 2nd, 2006 at 1:37 am

    I think that this is a simple case ignorance and greed finding each other. business is business… and investment is an investment. you don’t fork over 10K EVER or any amount, without asking some basic questions first… i.e. “how does this work” - “how does it make money” - “how will it make money if i own it” - “do i have the ability to continue what it is this person did”.

    Thats just basic common sense stuff.

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  20. Benj Arriola said on October 24th, 2006 at 3:20 pm

    Hmm… i think I should start selling crazy stuff on eBay. :P

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  21. RedMatrix said on December 12th, 2006 at 1:09 am

    Did the buyer even figure out he needed an azoogle account?

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  22. Einstein said on February 14th, 2007 at 4:10 pm

    Basically, the seller lied. The page doesn’t make 10k a month. I’d back out of the auction based on that lie (fraud).

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  23. wildbluff_matt said on March 13th, 2007 at 11:35 am

    Wow, that’s really painful. What was he thinking??

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  24. Mike Mothner said on March 20th, 2007 at 10:39 am

    That is an amazing find… I honestly have to fault the idiots out there who truly don’t buy into the truism that “if it’s too good to be true, it isn’t.”

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  25. Vijay said on April 22nd, 2007 at 5:36 am

    Some people are just so naive to believe just about anything… Can’t blame the seller when you have buyers like these

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  26. AListReview said on June 17th, 2006 at 5:03 pm

    Ebayer Buys a Pretty Generic “Landing Page” for $10K…

    So this guy buys a ringtone landing page on ebay for $10,000.  The seller claims that it makes over $12,000 a month.  Apparently having the brains of a loaf of bread, he actually believed it was the plain web page……

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