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| Note: This forum is for members to post offers to buy and sell their forums. Other topics or promotion of products/services other than a forum that is for sale is prohibited. Exceptions may be made for websites or blogs that are related to SEO, forums, or vBulletin. If you are unsure if your site qualifies, please PM me the URL and I will review it.
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Only forums? what about other "real" sites?
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Do you have any links for determining the value of any given site?
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Brent, Generally, sites sell for 10-18 months of revenue, give or take depending on tons of factors such as trends, domain name, seasons, no more potential (ie, a forum about a tv show that just got canceled probably will hold little future value) |
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I'd like to buy some good forums but I don't think 200$ will get me much :( maybe some day when I'm rich and famous...lol anyways, it'll be interesting to see how this section does.. |
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I did some brief research. Valuing a forum does not seem to be an easy task. The best rule of thumb I discovered was using 18-24 months of revenue as a baseline pricing. Here are some factors that should be considered. However, there is no formula. Once suggestion is to take open bids at various forums to get offers. Highlight the top qualities when introducing your forum for *possible* sale.
Does anyone with experience buying/selling forums have more information, or how to combine factors to determine a suitable asking price?
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I buy and sell from time to time, and I've NEVER paid more than 10 months revuenue for a site. I think 18-24 is a bit on the high side. 10-14 is average I would guess. Of course, there's always other factors that can increase its value such as the name, or an upcoming event (ie, if you own 2018olympics.com, its probably not going to sell for very much until 2017 |
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The multiple of monthly revenue metric is way overhyped, in my opinion. If you can buy a forum for ten months revenue, perhaps you got a real bargain. Or, maybe not, it really depends on a lot more than that. We were discussing this topic at Sitepoint the other day, and a guy posted who owns a forum with close to twenty thousand members and over two million posts. The revenue on his forums is zero a month, so I quickly offered him the going rate, or heck I even offered him thirty-six months revenue, lol. I've written a lot on my blog about this topic as well.
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| Links to the blog entries please?
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| Sure, here you go Peter T Davis » How much is my forum worth? didn't know if you allowed links to my own websites here. That's my most recent post, it also leads to a couple of other places where I've been in discussions about forum valuations. |
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Thank-you for the resource Peter. BTW, we do not prohibit links unless they are off-topic (i.e. spammy).
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Thanks Joe, I always err on the side of caution when I'm not sure what the rules are. |
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The bottom line is the buyer needs to determine the value of the site he wants to buy and make sure he doesn't pay more than that. The seller needs to get all he/she can. That is the way I look at it anyway. |
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