There is one thing that really annoys me in the world of buying and selling websites…. the sheer amount of bullshxt that people use to try and sell their sites.
Today I am going to look at a prime example with the website WOWcheaters.com
Here is a snippet from the listing:
“This forum is already well on its way to being one of the largest WoW forums around!”
This is quite a statement to make. So I went to google and searched for “World of Warcraft forum”, strangely, the forums had vastly more activity and members than WOWcheaters.com, in fact, there was so much difference that it really was chalk and cheese. They had millions of posts, hundreds of people online at anytime, whereas WOWcheaters has just 200 active members.
In fact, I took a screenshot of the original site listing and deleted any lies, exaggerations, or irrelevant info. Here are the results: WOWcheaters Image
According to that image, over 50% of what he said was not relevant or of any use.
People like this give the industry a bad name, I am amazed Sitepoint allow it.
Note: Here is the original listing: Sitepoint Listing
Ryan says:
I’m also amazed at how many listings are simply free scripts installed on a recently purchased domain name – and people pay hundreds of dollars for them.
John Motson says:
Com’on guys,
It’s an opporunists’ market out there. If these were truly successful sites, the listers wouldn’t sell them, or rather wouldn’t sell them at those prices.
You know as well as I do that only average and below average sites sell for low fee not just at sitepoint, but across the board.
ibuysites says:
John, I disagree. Truly successful sites are like truly successful businesses – you keep them and run them and profit from them … till your circumstances change. Sometimes people die, their circumstances change (perhaps the owner got pregnant and wants to devote all her spare time to the baby), partnerships break up, people move on to new jobs/new countries/new responsibilities. I know a case where someone had to sell purely because he accepted a good job which didn’t allow employees to run outside businesses.
Good sites do sell. The problem is recognising which ones are the truly successful sites and which ones are the pretenders.