Selling a Proxy Blog #5,000 Subscribers #Adsense Revenue

Can the OP post the stats public? or PM the interested ones? (including me)

 

The BID of 375$ is still a bit too low considering the immense potential that subscriber list has. It has now gone upto 5,571. That means in 11 days the list count has increased by 600+

I wanted to end the auction yesterday, but just can't give this site for that amount. Will announce a new auction end date.

 

Whatever, you are wasting our time with your games. People are not signing up for that site because it has such great content, they are there for proxies.

With just $5 spent in getting traffic I generated a subscriber list of 200 in one month. It made the same daily adsense as your site does for almost three weeks before it died down as proxies typically do. What do you think I could do with $375 in a promotion campaign if I want to just create my own "proxy blog" from scratch?

I hate to add a post like this to your auction but...

Thanks again for wasting our time.

 

I agree people are not signing up for the great content, they are looking for proxies. I never denied that fact.

Proxy newsletter services like proxyshout and some more are giving ~0.20$ affiliate money per verified subscriber. Why are they doing this? Cant they get new subscibers in .005$ each ( 5$/200 ). It's not that easy as you are saying.

Or may be you are a better marketer than me. And I respect that.

So, if you can do something better with $375 than buying this blog you should go for that, seriously..

Nevermind.

Sorry, if you think so.

 

Then why didn't you put a fixed price on the thread rather than telling us it is an auction when it really wasn't? Why didn't you specify that there was a reserve?

Threads like these undermine the integrity of this forum to be used as legitimate auctions. Selling a site for less than what you prefer to sell it for is the risk of running an auction. You set your terms at the beginning and then you let the auction run its course as opposed to changing things in the middle. If Ebay ran like this then there would be nobody using the service.

If you think your site is worth $1200 (6000 * .20) then set a price for that much. Don't drag everyone through 3 pages of threads and nearly two weeks just to say "just kidding" at the end.

What would have happened if you were to be satisfied with the $375 bid but I was not able to come up with the money? You would be just as irritated with me for not being serious and not being able to come through. You would have held me to my part of the commitment but you can make whatever rules up for your part as you go along?

My main complaint is that you didn't tell me a long time ago that there was no way that you were going to let the site go for under a certain amount so that I could have gone on to something else.

 

good post and i agree. so what is the bin and reserve for this?

and have you posted proof? i find it hard to see 5k registered feeds. i dont even know big marketers that have that. so explain.

 

Over 5000 RSS subscribers and only 4 comments on the entire site? Give me a break. You may not want to post stats publicly but you don't even have a Feedburner link on your site.

I would like to bid but will not do so until you are able to verify at least a few of these fishy claims. In my experience people who prefer to show screenshots only privately to a buyer after the bid is made do so because the scrutiny of the entire community is likely to turn something up.

Claiming 5000 readers with 4 comments makes you a crook; I don't mind being the one to say it. If I'm mistaken and all of these things are coincidental, please prove me wrong. Prove me wrong and I'll make a nice offer

 

This was exactly the point of the post I made before the last one. To get 5,000 subscribers on a mailing list where you are selling a piece of software or something to that effect is difficult. Doing this with a proxy is far easier.

People on these boards make this mistake of treating proxy traffic like regular traffic when it is not. A singe unique for a site selling car insurance is worth far more than a single unique on a proxy site. For this reason, buying a proxy related site for X times montly revenue is silly.

Proxies do make money, so they are not worthless, but what makes them worth so little in resale is that they are trivially easy to replicate. Why would you buy a proxy site that makes $60 in one month for $120 when you could build the same thing and spend less than $20 on buying the domain and promotions?

Sure, this "blog" has potential but so does any other site in the proxy niche. My interest in this site is that it would save about a month or two of time. There are a couple of other perks too. The site has a link in Wikipedia (orkut) which likely brings in a steady stream of traffic. The site is also #1 for "orkut proxy" which also likely brings in a decent stream.

Even with all that, there is no way the site is worth much over $400. I have seen people on these boards get 600 subscribers in just a few days with creative promotions. There is a Facebook proxy group which has over 70,000 subscribers. I actually watched it build 10,000 more over the weekend.

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=7594721412&ref=nf

Proxies are just crazy traffic. Selling them like they are a regular site is just naive. I also don't trust Feedburner subscriber numbers though I believe this site is worth the $375 that I have offered.