WTS: 9 year old video game site - shitload of content

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justo_tx

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So I've now been laid off twice in 6 months, my world sucks, and I'm seriously squeezed for cash. I'm forced to try and sell a site I bought last year that I wanted to build up but couldn't because of a lack of PHP knowledge and my first job was burning me out (just before laying me off, thanks fuckers!)

Anyway, I paid $3500 for it off sitepoint, and spent another $1025 for a new logo and layout (all details below).

I want to get at least $3K for everything including a few extra sites (one being 4 years old with content, see below). Highest offer by 12:00 tonight CST will win. Payment by paypal (sorry I don't have time to jack around with escrow.com), I live in Dallas, not some armpit 4th world country so I'm not looking to screw anybody over, we can talk on the phone if you want, I've also got good rep on sitepoint for some other transactions. All sites on godaddy.com and hosted at dreamhost.com (shared hosting).

GamersMark - Complete gaming coverage: screenshots, previews, reviews, news and more
Registered March/2000 (9 years old, authoritative)
Content:
8344 pages of news articles
169 pages of editorial articles
34415 pieces of media (mostly screen shots, a few mp3 interviews)
340 Game previews
896 Game reviews
The forum has 42851 posts in 2709 threads from 626 members
Currently gets around 15K visitors a month, 23K page views
Google Analytics added 11/2005, since then 985K visitors and 2,158,342 page views

Custom built (by original owner) php CMS

Site traffic would benefit from some SEO love, particularly a sitemap

There are volunteer writers that continue to contribute to the site, and more will come back
if the new owner puts forth the effort to update the site (I tried to incentivize the writing
schedule but they are mostly college kids who just like video games and want to know the
owner of the site gives a shit, some occasionally ask for money to cover a game to review but that is very infrequent).
When I bought the site last March I took down all advertising in plans of redoing the
layout of the site, building traffic and then monetizing. Previous owner monetized with
itellitext and EPN good months during 2006/2007 revenue could be around $200.00 a month (see spreadsheet included for original owner's monetization).

I paid for a new logo last year, $225 value
99designs Logo for video game site needed, $225 prize
I also paid for a new layout but never had time to implment (started on gamersmark.info), $800 value. Origninal psd, html template, and css will be given to new owner (psd converted to html via HtmlBlender services, tableless design).
99designs Gamersmark.com needs a homepage redesign

The logo has already been incorporated and the new layout can be seen
at Gamersmark


sales includes:
CheatersMark - Cheats for those too cool to cheat...
Registered March/2005 (4 years old)
46022 cheats

Enemy Territory Quake Wars - et-quake.com (originally purchased seperately for $80)
Registered June/2007 (2 years old)
34 blog posts

I was originally going to use this as the start to a blog farm pointing back to gamersmark.com

http://www.gamerskark.info
I was using this site to do the transition to the new site layout without disturbing the main site.


Anybody can bid via PM or in the thread.
 


Your homepage doesnt really make it seems like its anything more than a scraper site... and your domain while well aged, is a PR0. Not the kind of links an old domain should have. The Site is bare and kind of stand offish. On top of that the forum is stale... Latest Post: "Re: [OFFICIAL] Gamertags..." (April 09, 2009, 10:27:38 PM)

I can give you $250 for the site. Not trying to low ball you, just bidding on what I see. Show me more value, maybe someone will bid more.

Josh
 
Enigmabomb said:
Your homepage doesnt really make it seems like its anything more than a scraper site... and your domain while well aged, is a PR0. Not the kind of links an old domain should have. The Site is bare and kind of stand offish. On top of that the forum is stale... Latest Post: "Re: [OFFICIAL] Gamertags..." (April 09, 2009, 10:27:38 PM)

I can give you $250 for the site. Not trying to low ball you, just bidding on what I see. Show me more value, maybe someone will bid more.

Josh
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$250? Blow me.

A scraper site? Run some of the content through copyscrape and show me.

I've checked mulitple sites and the PR always shows 3 for me, could be better but a far cry from 0.

The site being bare can be rectified by implementing the the redesign I had commissioned and include in the sale, but the content is all there.

Yeah the forum maybe a little stale but like I said the site hasn't gotten the attention it should for the past year.

Thanks for the offer champ, I'll pass.
 
larrybn said:
Will the new owner need to pay all of these people?

GamersMark - Staff
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No, I haven't had to pay anybody in the last year. The writer list is a little outdated. There are about 3 or 4 writers left and the guy that does the flash rotator graphics. When I took over I wanted to seriously ramp up content production, and tried to offer paying per article but nobody really seemed interested in it. Most had been writing with the site since or close to when it started as a hobby and because they love games. Sometimes I would get hit up for money to cover a game they wanted to review but this was pretty rare and usually averaged out to less than 60 bucks a month.

For any potential owner, if you show the writers you give a shit, they will produce.
 
If you want $3k+ for the site, the best approach would probably be auctioning it and trying to generate as much exposure as possible (WF, maybe a few popular gaming communities, etc.). If you're limiting yourself to only letting us know, it's highly unlikely that you'll be able to find someone willing to spent 3 grand or more. Think of it this way: if you buy a collection of coins from a friend for an amount both of you consider fair, you can't expect to be able to go to a pawn shop whenever you're in need of some fast cash and sell it for a similar amount.

It would be great if it were that easy, but it just isn't. Anyway, the offer I made via PM still stands: $1,000 via PayPal masspay. Why don't you try listing it at sitepoint? You can have $4k or something as the BIN price and gradually reduce it if you want to seal the deal faster.
 
charlie.simm said:
If you want $3k+ for the site, the best approach would probably be auctioning it and trying to generate as much exposure as possible (WF, maybe a few popular gaming communities, etc.). If you're limiting yourself to only letting us know, it's highly unlikely that you'll be able to find someone willing to spent 3 grand or more. Think of it this way: if you buy a collection of coins from a friend for an amount both of you consider fair, you can't expect to be able to go to a pawn shop whenever you're in need of some fast cash and sell it for a similar amount.

It would be great if it were that easy, but it just isn't. Anyway, the offer I made via PM still stands: $1,000 via PayPal masspay. Why don't you try listing it at sitepoint? You can have $4k or something as the BIN price and gradually reduce it if you want to seal the deal faster.
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You're right, an auction is more appropriate. I was (kind of still am/kind of not anymore) in an immediate cash crunch. In the time it would take for an auction to resolve I will have found an alternate, less desirable resolution (man whoring) to my cash needs. My rationale was that due to all the high rollers, shot callers, and big ballers on here one that focuses on SEO instead of PPC might have the cash on hand to make the aquisition.

While your offer of $1000 doesn't warrant the "blow me" response of a $250 dollar offer I am still going to have to decline :)
 
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