May
Where Have all the Quality Site Sales Gone?
Maybe I’m just crazy, but I could have sworn like 2 or 3 years ago you could actually go to a webmaster forum like Sitepoint, Namepros, or Digitalpoint and find a quality site for sale. Now, Sitepoint does have a Premium site sale section, but either the websites are $70,000 or they’re scammy sites anyways. Where have all the quality websites for the little man gone?
I have a few theories. One, webmasters who build quality websites just aren’t selling them anymore. Or sites are being sold privately. Seeking out private buyers and sellers ensures that the visitors to the website will be unaware of a sale. This is ALWAYS a good thing. I sold a site once, and as soon as the members found out, they all started spamming the forums cursing me and saying that I’m a sell out. So, now I firmly believe that they less a visitor to your site knows, the better.
Quality sites are extremely hard to build from scratch, so I can also understand why webmasters might be reluctant to let them go. That’s why all you see for sale on webmaster forums are proxies, made for adsense sites, auto blogs, image uploaders, and other crap.
If you’re looking for website ideas. Come up with a way for buyers and sellers of websites to be connected for quality site sales, and for people on the outside to not know what website is being sold.
I agree David, mind you I’ve just sold my tattoo/piercing network, check out my blog for the latest info!
I’ve still got a few more sites to sell, if you want me to keep you posted I will.
Khalid.
Hi David,
I agree. I have built, ran, bought, and sold websites since 2000. You used to be able to go on Ebay.com ad even find a diamond in a rough. Last time I listed on SitePoint.com I got cursed out because I was my selling price did not match my profits!!!
The problem is everyone & their brother thinks they are a web guru and does not understand the value of hard work. They do not understand that building a profitable website is actually building an “Internet Business.”
The only place I find consistent sites (50/50) is http://www.BuySellWebsite.com. Our company has carved out a little niche with finding crappy sites with traffic & potential and re-designing the website & business.
Jeff
Selling and buying these days has been much tougher. First off the buyers are trying to turn a quick profit and not build sites, and those who want to build sites really don’t want to buy the garbage that are on places like Digital Point which I used to frequent regularly now not very often. When I did sell my blogs I was lucky enough to find a trustworthy buyer, most of the time those are hard to come by.