WTS: Site not like anything here.

I've sold a lot of sites here that are of very high quality -- go back in my feedback to check them all out. I develop A LOT of sites, a few I keep. The majority I let back out into the wild. If you look at these sites (as well as this one), I build sites that hopefully are appealing to everyone, can make a lot of money, and look quality enough to go viral and get media attention.

Why don't I keep them?

Since keeping a wide variety of sites spreads my resources, I sell the ones that I no longer want to promote, market, or just want to let go. I have several, very reliable contractors that I use on each project and I have them constantly pumping sites out much like this one.

Thanks for reading this far, here are the stats:

URL: www.leavingthefolks.com

Check out the site for it's name -- it's a site that helps people make the transition from living at home to being independent. Covers the basics of getting an apartment, buying a first car, opening a bank account, etc. It covers the basics of first-time everything, for a student graduating or for someone leaving their parents house for the first time.

Cool idea.

Features:

Design. Custom, beautiful. Very web2.0, built in CSS. All the icons/images are stock, paid for at istockphoto.com. If you'd like to hire the designer, PM me -- they charge $500 per design.

Page comment script. Custom made, like everything else. Very easy to use, no programming knowledge required. Just create a new PHP page and if you're including the comments file, the page will automatically be able to have comments and it will function beautifully.

Yahoo! Answers-like script. Custom, once again. Answer scripts are very popular these days. This allows people to post questions (which you moderate through a web admin) and have them posted on the site, which people can answer. It also shows how long ago they were posted, who posted it, and what their subject matter is. New pages created by this script are using mod_re-write and are SEO friendly.

This is the web-based admin control panel to approve/deny both added comments, and answers. It's done from a single page and you are even shown the IP address of the user, to ban offenders.



Content. Content was made by one of the writers who used to work for The Home Depot's website (and has writing on there now). If you'd like his services, I can transfer his information over to the winning buyer.

All content is unique except for the Money section. The copywriter of the money content is a professional in the financial field, someone I've known for a few years, and is based on her PLR content. She's only sold the PLR twice before, and she's not actively promoting to sell it anymore. I've changed titles and content parts where needed, so you shouldn't be afraid of a duplicate content penalty or whatever other nonsense anyway.

Each article page is flat (apartment-hunting.php, etc), but is full of includes -- the footer, nav, right nav, banners, social links, and comments are all PHP includes -- so it's very easy to update these features on the site.

removed . Custom. Using PHP/AJAX, we allow people to track how much it will cost to live in their particular area. All the data inputted in the cost of living tool is recorded anonymously and compiles the removed for eductional, non-scientific purposes. A pretty awesome and useful tool, one that was dugg by 132+ (real) people.

Stats
The site has been in production for a few months, with the domain registered in Jan of 2008. Traffic varies, from 20 visitors a day to 60. The site is pretty much completely indexed in Google.

The site has a a couple of solid natural links from media outlets.

Local news station: removed - Link on the site
Another news station: removed - Link on the site, plus featured in one of their morning broadcasts.

Income is essentially non-existent.

Summary
As the site is new and has no income, I'm not one of those crazies expecting $10,000 or anything. However, I know it has some value. The concept is great, with the target market being individuals who are starting work and beginning to have money. They need products and services for their new life. It has a great, custom design with a unique tool and some very useful programming. The content is solid. Whether you buy the site for just itself or buy it and extract all the programming to use on a different site, it's definitely worth something.

I'll leave you guys to figure that out. This is an auction, starting bid is $50. I do have a BIN and Reserve -- I'll post them both by Thursday. If you can't wait and want to send me a BIN now, feel free to.

Starting bid: $50
Reserve: TBA
Buy it Now: TBA

Good luck.

 

Very nice looking site! I bid $50.

 

Thanks for the first bid. If you want to PM a BIN, just send it over.

 

$75 bid here..

Good luck

 

Hmm...I don't know. I really like the site, but I don't want to overpay with a too high BIN or insult you with a too low BIN. Do you have an idea of what you're looking for?

 

$125 bid from me

 

$150 from me. Nice looking website

 

Thanks.

From now on though, let's do $50 increments. $200, $250, etc.

 

I'm having trouble accessing the site, is the server down again?

 

Unfortunately, yes. I'm having extra memory added.

The server hasn't been down in over a year, and it happens the night I post an auction. That's great. Anyway, I'll update when it's back up.

 

Update.

The site was DOS'd. While the attack is still going, the site was taken off of my server so it doesn't slow down my bigger, more important sites. The attack began a few minutes after this auction was posted, so I think it'd be safe to assume that the culprit is somewhere in DigitalPoint.

I'm sorry for those that were unable to see the site and bid. For those that saw the site and have interest in it, feel free to send me over a BIN. If I don't receive anything, we'll try the auction again in a while, either after the DOS attacks stop and/or we put the person responsible behind bars.

Thanks guys.

 

I might be interested but have only been able to see part of the home page since originally posted.

 

I'm getting "This Account Has Been Suspended"

 

Please let me know when the site is up.

 

That's just bad luck , well try getting a server at staminus, they are great for DDOS attacks.

 

please pm me with url

 

Sorry but it say that the URL was removed.

did you provide the URL of the site some where else?

I can not find it on this thread.

 

Sorry but it say that the URL was removed.

did you provide the URL of the site some where else?

I can not find it on this thread.

 

I am getting a server setup right now with DDOS protection. It will be completely setup by Friday and when it is setup, I'll restart the auction.

If you want to be notified about the restart of the auction, please post in this thread.

 

notify please thanks