I was looking around in my DB's and realized that I have over 115,000 members to my site (stlpunk.com) This means that I have over 115,000 email addresses in the database. I was wondering how you go about selling e-mail addresses to other similar sites. I really need to get some work done to the site and I think I could raise money this way. I am not sure how many of the e-mail addresses are still current, but I know with that many it has to be a big number. Is selling e-mail addresses something that people are interested in? Is it considered unethical? I would be very picky about the type of sites I would sell them to and I think it could help raise money for the improvments to the site. If this is something that is done often is there a place you list them for sale? Sorry if this sounds like a dumb question I own a great site, I just don't have a lot of experience selling anything but actual ads to local businesses. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
I think unless you revealed to the members that you could use their email for marketing purposes, it is very unethical. If it comes out, you could ruin the rep of your site and you. I suggest if you plan to this, you put a disclaimer in your register form that the emails could be used for marketing purposes.