It blows my mind that he is willing to pay that much.
Unless this site has some HUGE FOLLOWING I'm not aware of, there's no way it's worth all that.
It has a mild following ;-)
Like I said though, you're paying for the community, the traffic (the domain), the established resources and THE CODE.
Providing the ads he listed above are the only income, only four or five months of the year make enough to cover the hosting.
Switching from adbrite would change this.
Im not sure what caused the low income in April 2007 but January-February 2008 was when the new domain came in I believe, so bound to be less hits on the whole. No pun intended.
The domain uirpg is pretty fucking useless to be honest.
The traffic stats are getting close to what they were for uiv2.com, a domain alone which sold for $800 on a domain marketplace type of website. To a reasonable degree at least, these buyers know their stuff.
So, the website makes on average $8.99 a month. So it doesn't even cover the hosting costs. So you're paying $1 a month, plus the $9 to renew the domain - that's $21 a year in the red. So you want someone to pay $800 for the privilege of taking the aforementioned costs off your hands for a piece of shit website that at the moment has only 10 users online, 9 of which are guests?
How the fuck can you justify that? It's not worth $8. It looks like a piece of random generated blah blah here's some motherfucking gaming resources.
Beauty is not skin deep, my friend. You say it looks like a piece of shit website blah blah bollocks, but that's not the point. Fact is that people like it, and thats reflected in various stats. Alot of work has gone into it in various forms. The most obvious and pricable bit of work would be the coding, but then it extends to other more abstract and unpricable things like podcasts, something we were onto long before any other rpg making sites I know of. Read above as far as hosting costs vs ad revenue goes.
Point is its easily worth $800, and its certainly a far cry away from (and on the better side of) $55.