How much ($$$) would you sell a Facebook Group for(?????)

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    How much would sell a Facebook Group for?......Have you ever heard of anyone ever doing that?....giving up complete admin rights and privileges?

    just wondering if anyone has ever heard of anyone ever selling a Facebook group.... ?
     
    x3xsolxdierx3x, Nov 2, 2008 IP
  2. mikey1090

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    Depends on the potential and revenue of the group. If I was spamming affiliate offers to 200,000 members every week and making $10,000 I'd want $100k for the group :D
     
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    As Mike said,price depend on how effective is your group,btw how many member u have in your group?
     
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  4. x3xsolxdierx3x

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    Well, Iv'e been growing it for about a year now.......it has +200,000 members.....

    Iv'e found the Facebook's Group Platform is really quite limited......so, wev'e worked extremely hard to do creative and innovative things to make sure that people repeat visit, and and engage with the group....

    For instance, wev'e been linking up with companies to give away free stuff....lots of free stuff....lots of contests.....frequently.....it gives people something to look forward.....and, keeps them coming back to visit the group.....

    Iv'e actually been taking statistics since I started the group......and, it's been gaining roughly 500-1,000 new members daily, just with people joining and inviting there friends.............quite honestly, i think theres more value in the group, if people join slow, yet surely, instead of group that reach 1,000,000 members overnight.....because, they tend to be fads that just come and go.......

    http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=21237201144&ref=ts

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    this topic is very enlightening....I have a group with many members as well...it's starting to make me think about this.
     
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  6. x3xsolxdierx3x

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    Could I see your link Cheap SEO Services?
     
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    Depends what the group is about and what you can do with facebook groups.
     
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    I'm not sure if you can legally sell your admin rights to a Facebook group. Technically Facebook owns the group, not you (from what I recall when I read their TOS before). You can't sell something you don't own.

    Illegally however, sure you could. What's a little lawsuit from a mega corporation these days? ;)
     
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    I have to read their TOS...

    .....I do, however, doubt, that they would even bother go ofter anyone who sells a group for a few hundred $$$$ (If they even find out)......especially when Facebook generates, I believe it is, roughly 30+ million $$$ a month in revenue.......seems like the expense to pursue something petty like that wouldn't be worth it, on their end.....and, I'm not sure there's a way that they would even find out....

    then again, not telling anyone to do, or not do something......just interesting......a friend had told me someone sold his facebook group for roughly $5,000......
     
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    Could I see a link to one of your Facebook groups, Cheap SEO Services? :D
     
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    I've never thought about this before. Depending on the topic of the group I think some groups could be very valuable.

    Btw, there is only one search result for "facebook groups for sale" at google.

    This guy wanted to sell his group with 300.000 members: forum.developers.facebook.com/viewtopic.php?id=8354
     
    walruus, Nov 4, 2008 IP
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