What to offer, What to offer - Help/advice

[harkster]

Two word .com xxx yyy have an OVT of 468, xxxyyy = 0, xxxyyy.com = 0, xxx = 290870 and yyy = 54710

Current Rankings:
PageRank: 4/10
Alexa Rank: 1,746,100

Incoming Google Links: 0
Incoming Yahoo Links: 28
Incoming MSN Links: 65
Incoming Alexa Links: 73
Overall Incoming Links: 166 (Overlap is possible - Estimated 144 unique links)
Outgoing Links: 27 (Ratio: 0.000% - Each Link Receives Approx. 0.126 PR)


Page Information:
Title: xxxyyy.com Home Page
Description: <a nice description which would give away the name>.

DMOZ Listed: No
Archive.org Listed: Yes (82 results)
Cache: View Latest ( View All )

The site is very run down. Late 90's design with tons of broken links. She has one area (links to) still active because of what she collects. It was a 'sort of' entry portal with links to... and generalized information. I can offer her the aaa-bbb.com (PR3) AND aaabbb.info where aaa bbb is she collects and would be willing to have links to these from xxxyyy.com

I would use it as same with updated design, expanded information and links to the network of sites I am building. BTW it has not to bad Goodle results which could be built on with some SEO.

I am going nuts trying to come up with a fair offer.

Help please.

 

[JoshHendo]

What is this for? Are you buying or selling :P

 

[harkster]

What is this for? Are you buying or selling :P

Duuuhhhh -- I want to aquire as an addition to an ongoing project which will eventually consist of somewhere around 40-50 sites. Some pure informationam & sume for selling/buying (what the hell -- nearly everyone here knows my passion is collectible pottery). The little $$$ I make here are to help support this project and my collecing (booth pottery & domains).

 

[harkster]

Ok, maybe I can find out if my thoughts are to high or to low (Fiair market is what I am trying to determine). Am thinking of offering $150 + choice of the domains I mentioned above. There is some (not much) streatch to what I could justify paying as there Are other names I could get for reg fee but would require more building. Actually I could get this in all other ext.

 

[slaughterbeck]

For the statistics you supplied I consider an offer of $150 a very fair opening proposition but remember that she will probably look at it as an opening offer unless you’re saying your not open to negotiation.

 

[floatingworld]

If she has some emotional attachment to the site and doesn't need the money then $150 is not going to attract her, nor the offer of some further names which she isn't going to do anything with. If, on the other hand, you offered to create some pages for her pottery doo-dahs, and do all the work to develop the site, then it might be of interest to her to work with you on this....

 

[jeter4982]

I think $150 as a first offer is good, plus one of those domains, but I think if she is attached to the site, it could take somewhere in the $200-$400 range. But never make your final offer your first offer, so $150 sounds fair. Best of luck!

Tom

 

[IAmAllanShore]

I think $150 is a little high based on the stats.

Alexa above 100K is almost worthless as a statistic and as a traffic rank (Realistically).

The name does seem "short" however (6 letters, 2 words, low combined OVT, but it's ok....)

PR4 ... not particularly worthwhile (PR7 min worthwhile to buy, yet again).

The backlinks (indicated by the PR) seem lacking as well.

Unless the words are that great, start off at $50, just :imho:

Best of luck,

Allan

 

[harkster]

Thanks all.

You are just confirming what I had in my head. A couple years ago she was actively working it. We used to exchange links etc. The way she was trying to run it and IMHO her design were not working. She just stopped (at that time she was very depressed it wasn't working) everything except the part for what she collects. It is a framed site and she deleted nearly everything except the dead links.

We have talked casually several times. I have decided to present her with a proposal. I will not suffer without it but would fit nicely with my overall project.

Anyhow thanks all for confirming my thoughts. I feel that If I hit her to low she might tell me where to go.

For the big guys PR4 might not mean much but a link from my PR4 gets the attenion of the SE's.

BTW -- as a side. If I get this deal to go down I will be in a position to sell a site which a guy has been bugging me to put a price on for over a year.