Forget the eBay Exit, Sell on Web2.0forSale

Let’s hope it won’t have to sell itself! But seriously, this is a needed resource!

Hmmm so its powered by
Edgio - affiliated with Techcrunch through ads and ownership, and
Founded - by someone who also writes for Techcrunch and
Publicised - through Techcrunch.

Seems a good marketing ploy

Gota love the url

It is an interesting concept. There is another popular service that sells all kinds of sites and its not restricted to web 2.0 and does charge around $49 per site.

I am not fond of the layout or the submission system. not all web 2.0 developers are business managers or sales people, some of the developers are selling projects for $10,000 which has 500 registered users and no PR or traffic ranking, ‘Please….’. Thats not just the problem, an effective service should provide a consultation solution (even if it is automated)

Why not use something like Joomla CMS to set this up. A lot of effective features could have been implemented.

I don’t know, concept is great; but the scale of money thrown around web 2.0 , this should have created more constructively.

It was relatively quick to setup. I’m hoping it’ll help the reach of sellers to find buyers — particularly those who have hobby projects (and not much cash to spend on marketing their site/software for sale).

If you sign-up as an affiliate to the site, you can grab a widget that shows the 5 latest listings — and if someone creates a listing via your widget, you get a $5 commission. Curious to see if this will entice people to help spread the word of the site to benefit the entire buyer/seller community.

Here’s another list of sites to be developed:
MyOtherWebsites.com
http://www.myotherwebsites.com/index.html
Have at it.
-chrisco

Why is such trivial site being featured on Techcrunch? Just another demonstration of edgeio.com? Anyone can setup ad board on edgeio.com - where is originality, competitive advantage, anything to pick up this completely unremarkable site?

Why not to try another one million dollar page, Steve?

@ 7 - Why? Look at post # 2

Ta-dah!

FYI: I like TechCrunch, and obviously, judging by my comment history, read it regularly.

However, conflicts of interest like this should at least be acknowledged in the post itself.

For someone who supposedly detests PayPerPost and similar services, this fits the bill…and worse…

? This is garbage, why did this make Techcrunch again?

Just saw this over at Business 2.0

How apropos:

http://blogs.business2.com/bet.....ropos.html

This thread of comments is quite silly.

For the record. I had no idea Steve Poland was doing this (Actually I don’t even know Steve).

The edgeio marketplaces platform, and the classifieds boards products built on it, are entirely self-service. Steve could just go there and do it.

True, it is great marketing for edgeio that Steve used us, and that Mike wrote about it, but there is no conspiracy here. The platform and product are actually good. if you can build a listings based site in minutes, and can come up with a compelling use of such a platform, we can enable it. It is kind of obvious to use us rather than reinvent the wheel. No need for insider persuasion to play a role

Anyway, Steve, hope it goes well. I have seen a few $10 posts already.

Keith Teare
ceo/founder/edgeio

Excellent idea. Finally we can get to browse real sites and services for sale.

Interesting idea, but seems useless. Will $5 really excite people enough to post about it if they wouldn’t have before?

my guess is that this will become more an online classified for overpriced sites that don’t get mentioned on techcrunch.com, mashable.com or gigaom.com

you’ll need to watch spammy listings or this site could easily get flooded.

The name is the only reason this is worthy of TC

- I think its OVER affiliated wtih Tc / though which makes me sad

- I would rather this be - totally - independant .. then again - we all got to get some of something …eh?

-RB

I just recently listed my high traffic sites on ebay with no bids. So I’ll give this a try:

http://web2.0forsale.com/item/.....rl=forsale

There really is no efficient market for selling sites like these. My sites make around $20,000 a year in ad revenue. Not unreasonable to sell them for 5x earnings. But finding a buyer, very difficult.

Better palces to sell sites like sitepoint who have thousands of ready buyers !

I posted a listing on the site today - I have to say it was not a very user-friendly experience.

First I posted my ad and typed in the security code at the bottom of the page to preview - there were clearly upper and lower case letters listed, so I followed accordingly. It told me that the security codes were entered wrong and left me on a page guessing what to do next (so I hit the back button a few times). At this stage of the game, it seems rather odd not to have a user-friendly solution to common errors like this that do not disrupt the path to conversion.

Then, once I got that straightened out, I wanted to preview my ad - this is where it really got bad. It changed all of the formatting and jumbled HTML code with my listing. I had to play around with it for almost 30 minutes to make it legible enough to post (even opened up another window and searched Google for some basic HTML tips to try and solve these issues).

The idea behind the site is a good one - create a marketplace for new tech companies to buy and sell their projects, but the barriers that I faced in simply posting an ad would have drove less-motivated folks away real quick. Sites like SitePoint, DigitalPoint and the like, have the traffic and buyers that make this kind of service valuable, and many of them use the tried and true bulletin board services that serve thousands of communities and millions of people on a daily basis.

There needs to be some added value that advertisers will get, beyond the traditional outlets, to give a service like this real staying power.

Seems like the exact same idea as CSSForSale.com only harder to type in the URL

http://www.cssforsale.com is a much more nice design plus they have free ads! Hopefully it won’t get over run with spam…

I hope someone buys OnlineVideoStar.com and get rich off their brand. My new company is about to re-define several spaces at once, because soon, everyone is going to get blipd!

Operator agrees that edgeio will withhold 20% of gross revenue generated by the submission of a listing to their Listing Board.

For a classified ad for a business? Right.

I have never seen a website do a worse job of selling itself to possible users as Edgeio.

- No links to samples - how do i know what my board might look like? That’s a pretty big piece of information.

- The frequently asked questions on the main page of the site aren’t customized for potential buyers - they are for existing users.

The service is probably pretty cool - but I can’t for the life of me figure out why they don’t try to do a better job selling it on their own site. Just my $.02 as a site owner…

i agree with the other posters that this is not worthy of posting….

another FOM post that should be disclosed.

Gordon - I agree 100%.

BS Meter - there are two separate disclosures in the post. But based on the number of new listings, I’d say this audience found it relevant.

How about giving a competitor equal time? Perhaps that CSS one (which seems to have done a better job anyway)?

The number of posts - which may or may not have anything to do with this marketing move - is irrelevant. What IS relevant is the ethical situation.

>> Not unreasonable to sell them for 5x earnings

Andrew, in the real world its very very difficult to sell websites even for 2x earnings unless you can convince some public company to buy you or can make connections with some clueless private equity desperately in need of a web play in their portfolio

Right now on Web2.0forsale.com, all of the posts have disappeared.

It’s slowly degenerating into a domain squatter’s clearinghouse as the day goes on.

Sweet idea.

HigherEdChat - I did link to a competing service. There is not ethical situation here. Stop. Slow down. Think.

Sigh… Did you read the B 2.0 post?

A link to a service isn’t a post.

Is it me or are all the prices rediculious on this site anyway? I haven’t seen a domain name go for 25,000+ um… EVER. The CSS one seems to be the better option there if they do their marketing right and get the traffic. I’ll be keeping an eye on both.

http://www.bizmp.com has existed much longer, and does a much better job at this.

I wouldn’t say it does a better job… its pulling most of its listings from Digital Point which sucks… BUT it is a nice looking site!

Not many posts over here…

techcrunch suxs!