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I'm looking to sell my website. Ultima Island is an rpg-maker focused community site which has been running for a couple of years now. Custom coded website (based on phpBB forums) and has an almost-impressive database of resources and games and shit.

Advertise on it? Destroy it? Improve it? Vandalise it? Take good care of it?
 - If you want to buy it, feel free to do what you want with it.

If you buy I will give you the hosting account (with dreamhost.com) and domain and you can have it as it is.

Paypal payment required. Make me an offer. Go on, show me the money!

no it looks like this time he's selling the website itself.

no it looks like this time he's selling the website itself.

Yeah that's correct.

No joke bids please. I'm a delicate flower deep down inside and every time I see a million dollar bid a gram of seratonin goes KABOOM in spontaneous combustion.

Ooh, this sounds interesting (for anyone who's wondering, I'm not just some random guy, I'm from UI).

I'd be willing to bid if it's in my price range. I don't really know how much this kind of stuff tends to go for though, and I'm really bad at picking random numbers to start bidding with.

What were you hoping to make off of this?

I'm also kind of curious as to why you haven't posted about this on UI, but I'll assume you have your reason such as avoiding the probable mass panic, so I won't draw attention to this yet.

Alright, so I went over this with my dad and he wants a spreadsheet with information such as the anual income from advertisements, the cost of hosting, and any other money cost or gain stuff like that, and he wants me to ask if there are any changes that are about to happen such as a change in hosting cost or anything like that.

That'll help him decide how much of this he's willing to cover. Which is also probably about the limit of how much I can pay.

soolar, ill break it down for you now.

Ad Revenue past 12 Months:

$10.68 - August 2007
$12.49 - September 2007
$9.52 - October 2007
$10.20 - November 2007
$10.53 - December 2007
$5.67 - January 2008
$5.23 - February 2008
$9.81 - March 2008
$6.98 - April 2008
$8.91 - May 2008
$11.23 - June 2008
$6.74 - July 2008 (So Far)

I advertise with adbrite. They're shit. You should go with yahoo ads and you will make more, I would have gone with them myself but as I dont live in the US I dont apply. If you were to set up a yahoo account and wanted me to add the code in before handing it over, I could do that. OR, you could do it yourself, I think you're quite tech savvy no?

Hosting costs are $9.95 a month, that's not about to change. The domain has been recently renewed so you dont have to worry about that for another year, and when that time comes it'll cost $9 to renew for another year. If you renew for longer you get it relatively cheaper.

So basically at the moment the advertising covers the hosting costs. Being the dick head I am though, Ive been trying to cash American cheques from Adbrite in England and havent had any luck. So Ive been paying out of pocket. For you though, this would cover it, and with yahoo ads you'd make a profit. There are opportunities with the hosting account from referrals too, I have made $98 from one referral.

I was looking to make as much as possible (obviously). The hosting account should pretty much go to you for free, so you're paying for the community and the code I wrote for the site itself. A few months back I sold the uiv2.com domain alone for $800. Since I'm looking for a quick and easy sale, I'll be willing to sell the site itself for the same amount.