I noticed some interesting websites for sale around the Intarweb.
Movie-Vault.com – TylerCruz is selling his “baby” in this thread at digitalpoint. Geez I want this site. Why? 1) It has amazing original content (over 2150 movie reviews). 2) its seo’d like crap. Same meta tags on virtually every page within the site. 3) Tons of room for improvement in monetization.
Why Dont I like it – Well its in perl and uses some wild perl module. If I were to buy it I would move it all to php and geez that could end up being a ton of work. Also I think its going to take much more time to maintain then I have available which means I would have to hire people to do it… which I dont want to do.
Anyway the auction is 40k starting bid 60k buy it now for the site. Some people make some good points in the thread which he is not contesting.
Nintendo WII Domains - User Egnited selling some great nintendo wii domains in this thread
I think there are some steals in that group if your making a wii site.
Cartoonnetwork.ws – also for sale on dp is CartoonNetwork.ws domain. Cool domain right? ya but… 1) your never going to ever get any typein traffic for it and 2) are you really going to spend much time developing a site for a domain that is sure to have issues if it is successful ? (legally speaking)
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Jon at WickedFire was the $50k bidder who backed out of the Movie-Vault sale after he looked under the covers. I’m sure he would tell you why if you asked him.
I was surprised to see Movie-Vault back on the market — I guess the original buyersbacked out at the last minute.
Nice, old domain but like you stated probably too much work needed to update the programming.
Lol. I really like your writing method
Movie-Vault is a nice site yes I agree there.
Wasn’t movievalult sold several days ago?
As I remember Movie-Vault.com was meant to be sold to the owner of WickedFire?
I was also looking at the Movie Vault site. There are tons of positives, but like you said, getting things up to shape would likely take a long time. I agree that a premium could be set on the site, but considering the amount of work a new owner would have to put in, I wouldn’t touch it.
Thanks for the free plug Jeremy
Not much to respond to here as I believe I’ve covered everything I wanted to say in my original post…
Posted this on DP:
But yeah – as much as you guys love to place a simple pricing formula on website, you must admit it doesn’t work for everything. The high price is made up of mostly the established fact of it and the potential. I mean, 2150 professionally written reviews.. if you price them at $25 which is far below what they’re worth because of their quality, that’s $50,000 right there if you were to have that outsourced.
Anyhow, buy it from me Jeremy.. you know you want to…
I wish DP had a feed of sites/domains for sale with site/price in the headline so I could scan what’s for sale a lot more often than I do.
I ran a search for “where to get a wii” in Google and got a Yahoo Answers response as #5. Hmmm.
Movie Vault is a nice one and as you said, if you hire people for it, make a team to run it (of course .. pay them), this site would become cited in Yahoo and Movies.com or others.
For the right guy would make a nice site in the future.
Price: bin is at 8-9-10 years revenue. right ? worth it ?
Good point on the CN.ws domain. I’ve never understood the clamoring to get domains that will be legal nightmares. Maybe there’s some blackhat stuff you could do. Or PPC strategies…
‘Scuse me, I need to go to Digipoint right now.
Check out CameraPrices.com for sale over at SitePoint
Why not just ask me?
I was and am front about everything, even giving them access to Urchin and telling them numerous times that the traffic on Urchin was inflated because itw as mostly from search bots (I even told them to look at the Spiders/Engines area in urchin) and that the actual real people traffic was much much smaller.
They phoned me again right before going through Escrow pointing this out and reoffering $35,000 which I turned down.
Tyler has an interesting sale going. If the code would be cleaned up, I’d say it might be worth it, but as a server admin I would be scared to death to upgrade PERL and other stuff and break the site.
Thanks for pointing out my Wii domains that I have for sale! I appreciate it. And yes, I agree that some of those prices are real bargains
He explains why he backed out in this thread.