VerbalBattle.com For Sale Flourishing Debate Community!

VerbalBattle.com for sale

Starting price $60 ($5 increments)

VerbalBattle.com is an online debate community consisting of a forum, blog, and Facebook Group used to market the site.

The site started on January 10th, 2009, it has since then grown to have 58 members, 187 threads, and over 1100 posts. Most of the members love to share their opinions on the topics offered, and due to the nature of the site it is quite easy for a member to rack up 20-50 posts in a single day. The Facebook Group has a little over 100 members, most of which have not yet converted over to created accounts on the actual forum.

The site is very well indexed in the major engines, a quick search on Google returns 262 indexed pages for the site. I would assume it is about the same for the others.

The traffic it gets seems to be a good mix of search engine traffic and referrals from blogs our site has been written about on. Some of these blogs have brought in a hundred plus visitors individually.

With the right marketing and the right amount of time and effort this site could easily be a gold mine. I have not monetized the site in anyway as we had planned to build it up quite a bit first before doing so, but we have had another project land in our laps which will require our full attention and then some. We hate to sell it, but know it will otherwise likely die or suffer from growing to slowly due to lack of promotion.

Site is registered with GoDaddy, also hosted at GoDaddy.

When we first purchased this domain, and did a test run on it back in 2007 we asked DP members to give us appraisals of the domain, here are some of the comments from that thread:

All above comments from this thread: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=440051&highlight=verbalbattle.com

PLEASE NOTE: We cannot guarantee the complete transfer of the site to you in its intact form. I have never tried to compress an entire site and transfer it but I plan to download the whole site, create a zip file of the site and upload it to the server for you to download, then we can transfer the domain and you can upload the site to your servers. If you have any other ideas on how to properly do it we can discuss that at the time of the sale.

We are listing this auction style, and the auction will end 24 hours after the last bid has been posted. We will not sell it for less than $60 so that is the starting bid.

If the auction reaches over $200 I will keep my signature the same for 6 months to the day of the sale.

Currently no BIN

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Stats from GoDaddy:

1. Host name: verbalbattle.com
2. Host URL: http://www.verbalbattle.com
3. Program start time: Feb 11, 2009 08:15
4. Time of first request: Jan 10, 2009 00:40
5. Time of last request: Feb 10, 2009 23:57
6. Time last 7 days lasts until: Feb 11, 2009 08:15
7. Successful server requests: 196,620 Requests
8. Successful requests in last: 7 days 44,765 Requests
9. Successful requests for pages: 3,769 Requests for pages
10. Successful requests for pages in last 7 days: 945 Requests for pages
11. Distinct files requested: 10,176 Files
12. Distinct files requested in last 7 days: 3,021 Files
13. Distinct hosts served: 8,907 Hosts
14. Distinct hosts served in last 7 days: 626 Hosts
15. Total data transferred: 1.090 GB
16. Total data transferred in last 7 days: 301.322 MB

 

What are the bid increments?

I'll bid $60 though.

 

You beat me to correcting it, bid increments will be $5. Also adding some statistical info to the original post.

Current high bid $60 from cjames83 - Next bid $65 or more please.

 

Did you have a BIN in mind?

 

Right now I will list the BIN at $500, likely lower it later.

 

I am interested in the site but I am a little concerned about the disclaimer. If I were to create a FTP account on my server do you think you could upload it there? Also... are you able to export the sql database?

One other question... I know with any new forum some of the posters have to be paid or fake aliases have to made to get it going... Of the 58 members how many are organic?

 

Hi ViewPublishing, thanks for your questions. I am willing to do whatever you wish you to ensure the safe transfer of the site. Whoever the winning bidder is can tell me how they would like it done and I will do it, we can also try different things if need be. Once I send the site you can certanily test it on your servers before I take it down and transfer the domain to be safe.

To answer your other question, 49 of the 58 members are organic.

 

I'll go $65

 

I'll go $70 here.

 

Thanks for the answers drmike.

I'll bid $75

 

No problem!

Top bid is now $75 from viewpublishing.

As stated the auction will end after 24 hours of no bids.

 

Checked the couch cushions, I'll go $80.

 

Okay, current high bid $80

BIN lowered to $450

About 23 hours to go with no bids for auction to end.

 

i"ll go 85.00

 

Ok new current high bid $85 to bartender10

About 21 hours to go by my calculations.

Also wanted to add that this also includes a gmail account, verbalbattle at gmail.com which I have ben using for the Facebook Group and some advertising purposes.

 

$85 is the current high bid.

12 hours to go.

 

7.5 hours to go and VerbalBattle.com goes to bartender10 for $85

 

BIN lowered to $300

Just under 4 hours to go!

Current bid is $85 from bartender10

Anyone willing to go $90? $100? BIN?

 

About an hour and a half to go...

BIN lowed to only $200!!

Current bid is $85 from bartender10

Anyone willing to go $90? $100? BIN?

 

Final Hour, BIN lowered to $100