Arcade Website Network - 2 Years Old!

I have a network of arcade websites now available for sale. Selling because I think someone else can do a better job of expanding on them, and I haven't really focused too much on these sites as other projects take up my time.

Websites:
AllBestGames.com - PR2 (used to be PR3-4)
ArcadeNoob.com - PR1
BuffGamer.com - PR1

I currently make about $300 a month from all three (AllBestGames makes most of it), using a combination of Yahoo!, in-house CPM ads sold for other sites in my portfolio, Google Adsense, and other CPC/CPM networks.

I used to make over $1,500 a month alone from Yahoo! (back in mid/late-2007) with AllBestGames, before my account's ad targeting was disabled (due to a misunderstanding with another website I own). But alas, those days are over and I make low $0.XX per click with Yahoo! now...

AllBestGames receives about 500 uniques/5,000 pageviews a day now. During the Fall-Winter 2007 season, it was receiving upwards of 2,000 uniques a day. Seems like a seasonal thing (schools back in session, warm weather winding down, etc). All three arcade sites come with 1300+ games loaded. ArcadeNoob has been coded to rely off AllBestGames' SWF/IMG database (in order to save space on server), but BuffGamer is standalone. Traffic for all three is >75% USA traffic.

AllBestGames.com was created in/around September 2006 by a fellow webmaster friend. I bought it from him, added more games, and promoted it a little bit (never paid for advertising). It currently receives 30% of traffic from search engines, 50% from direct, and 20% from referrals. Uses about 500 MB bandwidth a day.

BuffGamer.com has been around since early 2007. Basically made a quasi-copy of AllBestGames. Has been receiving steady traffic as well (average of about 500 gameplays a day). ArcadeNoob.com was created about six months ago. Average of 500 gameplays a day as well.

Minimum BID: $1,500
Minimum Increase: $100
BIN: $2,500

PayPal accepted only. I will assist in transferring the site over to your server, or you can keep it them on my dedicated server for a few months for free, if need be. Domains registered through GoDaddy.com. Script for all three is believed to be GameSiteScript.

 

Prices reduced...

Minimum BID: $1,250
Minimum Increase: $50
BIN: $2,250

 

Enough forum war. I set the BIN to what I think is reasonable. Please don't suggest such ridiculous 'BIN offers'. I don't care if you own a billion arcade websites and know the market value of arcades like the back of your hand; I find that extremely rude to publicly post in a sales thread. I usually sell all my websites at 10-20x the monthly revenue. Considering the minimum bid is set to just a little more than 3x, I don't think I'm being unreasonable, arcade or not. It's a long standing site which I've invested a lot of time into. AllBestGames used to be a solid PR4, but just last update it dropped to PR2 for some odd reason. Stuff like that has happened to my sites before, and I'm pretty sure it'll return to PR4 with future updates.





There's the traffic statistics. As for revenue statistics, Yahoo! is not letting me make reports for some reason. I will see if their customer support can get them for me. CPM advertising at an average of $1.25 CPM with a 100% fill rate is making about $5 a day, and Yahoo! ads are getting about 15-20 clicks a day at 20 cents a click, another $5 a day or so. WidgetBucks here and there makes an additional $0.50-$1.00 a day. And this is all just for AllBestGames. I do not have revenue logs for ArcadeNoob or BuffGamer, and assuming together they have about 500-1,000 gameplays a day as well, they must make an additional $5-10. It's quite possible all three sites make WELL over $300 a month...

That said, adjusting prices once again:
Minimum BID: $1,000
Minimum Increase: $50
BIN: $2,000

 

The script for all 3 is GSS, correct. Allbestgames looks customised, while the other 2 are running some of the free templates included with GSS. Do you have licenses for all 3 of the sites? I bought a dodgy arcade on SP running GSS and turned out to be unlicensed, so don't want to do that again. If you can confirm you have the licenses, I'm very interested.

Thanks

 

unigambler:
Any idea how I can go about checking the "licensing" of the sites? As previously mentioned, I bought these sites from a friend, so I didn't do the script purchasing myself. At time of sale, he told me he spent almost $150 on the script + games. These sites have been up for almost 2 years each now, and I have not been contacted by anyone, so I assume they are good. I will, however, ask my friend for invoices and see if he can provide. Worse comes to worse, I'll just reduce the final sale price by $50 for a new license (I think they are lifetime and transferable though, so we'll see).

 

There was a pirate copy of the script released around then (mine is the same) - if you have the license you should be able to log in to the client area on the GSS website. here: http://gamesitescript.com/ordersys/client_login.php

License is non-transferable (see http://www.gamesitescript.com/ordersys/browse_products.php) and all 3 have copyright removal. I can't find license + copyright removal, so I would suggest joining the forum and/or emailing Luigi (the owner) who should be able to help in that respect. If your friend can dig out those invoices it could save you a bit of cash. The new version of GSS is being released soon, so I would want a license to make the most of those upgrades!

Please keep me updated on progress, I'm very busy at the moment, but very interested

Thanks again

 

Received quite a few lowball offers, highest being at $500. I refuse to sell under $1,000, there's absolutely no reason to when I'm making more than that in 2-3 months... I'd rather just hold on to them.

unigambler: PM sent with more information.

 

if you sell individually let me know via pm the price for each one and the statistic for each one...

 

same as above

 

and me... still waiting for a reply to my PM too

 

unigambler: PM replied, sorry for delay.

Referral statistics for last month, in case anyone is interested:
http://allbestgames.com/referapril.jpg

I really would like to sell them altogether as I don't have time to deal with multiple buyers.

Have received a few private bids now, the highest at currently $1,750.

Haven't reached BIN yet, so let me know if you're interested. As I said, I am willing to provide free hosting on one of my dedicated servers for a few months if needed as well.

 

nice sites, damn if only I had the funds.

 

marekpl: Thanks.

Bidding will now end in 36 hours (1 P.M. EST May 14th).

 

I'll start you at 1k if those private bids don't come through

 

16 hours left... $1,750 is still the highest private bid.

 

Ends at 1 P.M. EST today. Highest bid is still currently $1,750. Received a bunch more backup offers, but BIN has not yet been reached ($2,000).

I will also add a few hundred more NEW games to each of the arcades as well. Value of all three scripts + games + installation alone is more than $500. This is an offer you can't pass up, get in before it ends!

 

Sold, thanks for the interest everyone.