Football (Soccer) Forum for sale - 75,000 posts

http://www.talkfc.com

This one is back open for sale. I won't be dealing with anyone unless they have at least some iTrader feedback or have a full verified with plenty dealings PayPal account. This is due to TWO people now agreeing to a purchase and then pulling out last minute or trying to do a scam on me.

I have given the forum a fresh look with a new logo and colours. The members are really eager to see this forum have some fresh life breathed into it and there is so much potential given Soccer is the worlds most watched sport.

As I want to get this moved quickly, I am now only putting a reserve as $1100 (a lot less than I've spent on it in the past 3 years or so) which will include everything you see, as well as my owned vBulletin license which is still eligible to download updates for another 7 months or so.

 

I am interested but have many questions. Do you have MSN?

 

any revenue?

 

I would offer you the reserve price if it was active, but the forums seem quite dead.

I can offer you 500 for the forum database and domain.

 

No thanks SiteManaged but I appreciate the offer.

It is not monetized at the moment Nima.

Please send all questions by PM as I am not often available on messengers.

 

Ok...

i. Has the site earned anything? If not, why has the site never been monetized? What are the affiliate links on the rhs?

ii. Posting frequency looks to have dropped off markedly, how do you explain this? (Only 2 posts in the British Footy Forum for the entire month of September despite a new season and many controversial changes and incidents?!)

iii. Has there ever been any paid posting done at the forum? If so, roughly how much?

iv. Has the RSS feed posting ever been used on the forum? If so, how many posts?

v. Is the majority of the posting done by you and your friends?

vi. How many organic sign ups have you been getting weekly over the last 2 months?

vii. Have you done any paid advertising for the site?

Cheers,

 

I previously advertised the site heavily on my other site www.pesgaming.com but I pulled those off that site a good 6 months ago. All the members on talkfc are either from PESGaming, F365 or other big fan sites where people have referred friends. Everyone is waiting for something cool to happen with the forum. For the last year I've promised them changes would be coming whether it would be a blog or news service or just something to liven things up again, but my PES site and Movie site have taken off and need my time dedicating to those.

There is no paid posting, no RSS feed posting as far as I remember... though the latter might help breath some life back into it. I just don't have time any more to try and turn it into the site it could be.

No revenue to speak of... it made around $50 a month or on the adsense that's on the showthread 18 months ago or so when the site was at it's peak but the majority of visitors now are the 'old guard' and so don't click ads (everyone knows it's new visitors who click) so it's now down to less than a few dollars. It would obviously earn more if their was more ads and new traffic coming in.

 

It's interesting, could be interested. Thinking about the price, though, for a low activity forum.

 

Thanks for the interest. It just needs some TLC Brian and somebody who can give it more time than I can. I do appreciate the price but I really would like to recoup most of the money if possible which I have invested into the project.

 

I like the site mate could be interesting, would like more info. Quick questions do you earn anything from the gambling referrals? Will the associate link in the header of PES Gaming remain in place? The price would be a good one if the user base was active but with no revenue it's a hard one. Seems from the few threads I've read that the active users are very loyal which is a good bonus.

 

I'd be happy to leave the link atop of PESGaming for a length of time negotiable of course. Which gambling links are you referring too?

 

The Free Bet links on the Live Scores page

 

Ah. Those are added by the people who made the plugin I believe tchatting.com

 

Actually, that's a complete lie. I added them because I just looked at the freebet.php file and it's linking to my tradedouble account. I have no idea if they've made any money actually as I haven't checked the account for over a year. I'll get back to you.

EDIT: Well, my account balance is GBP 9.39 - so you can assume it's not earning much. I had totally forgotten I even had those links there. It made quite a bit during the World Cup last year, that was the main reason we made that page.

 

Nice forums, could do well with a push.
Would you be open to an advertising agreement with PESGaming? (mass email and forum link perhaps?)

By the way, PES is the only video game I play have these geeky tournaments with mates once a month, we normally get really drunk then discuss the 'Pro Evo' conspiracy, the game cheats a lot!

 

Blitz, of course. Everything is negotiable.

I don't have time to play so much PES these days with work commitments unfortunately

 

Still available for sale.

 

If your willing to talk about a lower reserve PM me

 

I'd like to achieve near to the reserve. But would now be willing to split up the sale into database, design and domain if people would be more interested.

 

I may buy database, how much do you want?

Dan