Hello, I am sold a few sites in the past here (approx 10) and i check back through them today and they are either redirecting to another site, deserted, or parked, or just offline. Why do people do this? I mean some of the sites i sold i poured so much of my time into it and for what? has there been a case where you've sold a site and it was made better? Please share your stories.
Yeah thats a shame, but most people but a site for a reason. 1. They want the domain name so they will park it. 2. They want the PageRank so they will redirect it. 3. They dessert the site because they are working on something bigger and forgot about it. Next time you want to sell a site PM me and lets see if we can improve how much money it brings you and forgo the sale all together.
I would tend to say it's just personal values, and what the motive was behind purchasing the domain..From PR, AdSense, traffic, who knows!
I've noticed the same thing, it's a damn shame sometimes! I hope it doesn't happen if I were to sell my prized website.
Yeah basically after i noticed this.. i decided to keep all my other sites i wanted to put up for sale.. since each of my sites have a person value you to them.. since there not proxy sites or anything you can whip up over a coffee break at work. So if i where to sell my other sites i think i need to make a terms of some sort that site cant be taken down or redirected else where. Would it be wrong in me doing that? Thanks for your input so far. ~Joecool6101
What??? makes no sense. If a site is making a decent earning the chances are the buyer wont change it.
I dont understand either. Recently I sold a site and it never even made it off my server. The domain has since expired, and I am tempted to pick it back up and start again.
You are absolutely correct... If site is a good revenue earning one they will buy it ,otherwise they do n't concentrate on that much... Another reason is that they may not know how to make money with a site....
Everybody got different perspective on how things should be. At first everybody got fast plan in head, but afterwards everything might change.
I know. I recently sold my 3 month old blog for $5,000 It hasn't had a new blog post since my last one. Alex rank is RISING (not dropping!) No one is commenting on it I'm assuming traffic has gotten really low. The buyer hasn't done anything except put ads up.
I don't think that you can do that successfully, or I even would say that it is not possible. (you cannot know how the buyers financially situation is in the future, so you cannot make the term that the site has to be on a server (which costs money) for a certain time-span. also even with a sell-term: i think, after the domain push the terms value would just drop to zero because you lost all legal rights of the domain, and after the push the buyer could legally do with the domain whatever he wants. just my thoughts, i don't really know what i am talking about
"those who can do, teach. Those who cant do teach gym" in other words "those who cant make good sites buy.Then wreak them" .. because they dont know what they are doing but assume because the other person knew what they were doing and constantly updated.. That they can stick more ads on the site and never update and hope the people keep coming.. sad really.
I can jsut see it now "I'm going to buy that site tomorrow and have the pleasure of wrecking it" When you put work into something it's hard to watch it crash, that's why you never let go your babies till you nearly duplicate it.
Because people are just lazy, when they see a site making money they think they can buy it and it will continue to make them money without needing any new content or hard work.