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While your new website is getting transfered…

I just bought another website today. It wasn’t anything special except from being in direct competition with one of my other sites. So I bought it immediately and cheap! But something happened that made me think about important things to tell the seller when buying a website.

What happened was when the seller should download and send me all the files. Before he downloaded the files he changed the config files, so that his password for the webserver wouldn’t get into my hands. This isn’t a wrong thing to do - not at all! But it had a side-effect, which was that the website only gave a MySQL error, when trying to access it. I e-mailed him and asked him to correct it, and I also asked him to keep the website running for yet a couple of days. He kindly fixed it and agreed to keep the website running!

What then came to my mind, is that I just expect a seller to keep the site running for a couple of days, until the DNS changes etc. has come to effect. And I guess that some of you also would expect it. But he didn’t, so in the future I need to remember to inform the seller about such expectations.

Tags: website transfer, buying websites, domain transfer

Add comment January 25th, 2006

Webshop CornerHobbyShop.com for sale, ~$4180 monthly revenue

The webshop CornerHobbyShop.com is for sale at SitePoint. It is an e-commerce website selling RC Cars - all delivered through a dropshipper.

This is what the seller tells about the traffic: “Traffic is generated through a combination of PPC ads, natural search engine listings and froogle. The site lists better on Yahoo & MSN then Google, currently.”

According to seller there has in average been a monthly revenue of $4180 in October, November and December. But the revenue for December was $7753 with a $2013 net profit.

The webshop is on auction with a starting bid of $5000 and a BIN of $25000.

The sellers comment about what is included: “You are also buying customer list, vendor information, our promise not to compete, and our advertising campaigns. Overture account can be transferred. Adwords, pricegrabber and froogle we will provide you with all keywords/ feeds to continue doing what we are doing.”

Tags: webshop, e-commerce, webshops, rc cars

Add comment January 24th, 2006