music-codez.com $250+ profit/month STEADY growth!

I am selling http://www.music-codez.com
The site is a little over a year old, and has been very profitable in that year. The site needs minimal hosting, and the rest is profit.
I estimate that I have made roughly $4,500-6,000 since I had the site made.

Income originally came from casale media, valueclick, and adsense, but casale does not want these kind of sites in their inventory, so I've removed the casale ads, and I removed the adsense because it looked tacky etc.
The site had a peak month of about $1200 that month.

Lately the site has averaged $250 or so from valueclickmedia. You can easily make it $400 if you add other networks, I just don't have the time for it.

Anyways, I have uploaded screenshots of traffic/income at http://www.music-codez.com/screens

please let me know if you have any questions.

I will start the auction at $800, with a BIN of $4500
I will end the auction January 10 at 3PM CST

I will keep the right to end the auction at any time.

 

1. Can you provide screenshots of referrers for December?
2. Something odd with the stats. From your awstats, it shows that your traffic shot up 3 fold from November to December (41k to 123k)...however, your bandwidth dropped by half (5.42 GB to 2.91 GB). Also, your revenue stats for the month of december seems low (7k popunders) for 121k of traffic. If you ran another CPM network (casale) for that period of time, can you show stats for the month of December
3. Would you be willing to place an extreme tracker on your site?
4. Would you be willing to place adsense before a sale is consumated to demonstrate that the site hasn't been banned from adsense.
5. I see that you have YPN (although you mentioned that adsense looked "tacky"). Would you be able to provide screenshots of YPN?
6. Can you clarify "steady growth", when clearly the awstats show declining traffic?

I'll start the bidding with $800

 

hi edgistics, here's the response to your questions.

1. yes, I will get it soon when I get home and pm you it.
2. I noticed that too and was wondering why. I think it may be from bulletins I had sent out that didnt accumulate to real traffic? I'm not sure why. Also I dont have casale ATM, I had it a few months ago as stated above.
3. no as that would take a while to get stats filled etc, and awstats is much more accurate
4. sure
5. the YPN does not make much and was added fairly recently.
6. the traffic has been declining, but it jumps at times (sometimes it'll get high placement on yahoo for "free music video codes" etc. The income though has been almost steady for the past 2-3 months

You are the current high bid.

 

still taking bids!

 

csmaster2005 - The "anti-fraud" ghost has came back to hunt you.

I would like to point out the following information to potential bidders:

Previous sale:
http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?t=316154

Note that I nearly bought it there.

The seller used different names on:

MSN Messenger
Escrow
Sitepoint
Other forums
Domain registration

Example: He uses the same username over on SitePoint as he does here yet in the sale he signed up for a new account. I know this as he sent me a PM from his other csmaster2005 account.

Seller wanted me to send payment to his Mum so she could pick it up.
Sellers surname didn't match that of the recipient....his mum.
Wanted to use Western Union with 1 day checking period...need I say more.

The videos were down during the sale for quite some time. Seller wanted the money and had no intention of fixing them beforehand.

The following was posted then deleted shortly after:

"To all of you who think this business is legitimate, it is not. EMI
and Universal Music Group are going to sue all code providers as you
devalue their business model which is to get paid per video played.
Most of you could not afford the bill per month. You also are
stealing bandwidth from legitimate sites and thus are liable for the
bill. We at Singingfool.com take exception to this and have sued one
code provider for this offense and are looking at more sites.

Code providing is illegal and you will be the new Grokster in the
record label's mind. You do not encode, host or pay bandwidth and
royalties to labels and performance art societies who are also going
to go after you. When you are sued, just know I warned you."

The above is just a sample of fishy things I noticed with the previous sale.

Finally when the seller had difficulty in explaining these anomalies and I backed out (which I have every right to do) he was then very rude and agresssive. Basically sounded like a 15 year old scam artist who had just been busted.

Perhaps all of the above is no longer true with this current sale but I found it my duty to point this information out to my fellow DP members.

Also like I said - the way he acted was very childish and not someone you want to hand $4500 to.

Not a nice guy.

Did I mention how risky and troublesome these sites are to run?

 

RAH, thanks for the bash.
I actually forgot I had put this up for sale way back when.
If people read the thread, you'll see that it did not get sold not due to false stats, but rather other issues.

All my stats are accurate, and I have not 'faked' any. That other thread was being bashed, that's all.

Anyways, if someone is still wondering... why would I of kept this site this long if it wasn't profitable to begin with?

 

Videos are not working.

 

Yes, I know. The videos do not work, and have not worked for the past year or so. All traffic is from SE's and people that left the videos in the profiles.

 

Thats Nasty

 

It is not illegal to own this site, please think about what you say before you say it.
The site has no working videos, and all traffic/income is from SE. The fact that no videos are working means the site cant possibly be doing anything illegal.

Also, sorry for the late response, I've had a very busy 2 weeks.
This is back up for sale and I have a high bid of $800