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Old 10-02-12, 04:47 PM   #1
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Has anybody sold a freebie site?


Just wondered if anyone has tried selling there site and successively sold it? Im am thinking of selling my gifts4anyone site.

Just would like to any successful stories etc, where is best to sell it also? Looking at flippa unless im typing wrong info i am not finding many freebie sites up.
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I sold freeiphone4.co.uk on flippa a while back - wasnt really that much interest on it though, however i am now building another freebie site witha view to sell it and also a niche site - guessing the niche one will sell better as its already on google page 2


if the rankings and conversions are there it will sell...
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I sold freeiphone4.co.uk on flippa a while back - wasnt really that much interest on it though, however i am now building another freebie site witha view to sell it and also a niche site - guessing the niche one will sell better as its already on google page 2


if the rankings and conversions are there it will sell...
Did your freebie site have traffic, rank well?

I have niche sites which rank very well, but this is why i want to maybe sell my freebies site to work on niche sites.
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it was on first page for "free iphone 4" about 6 or 7 when i sold it i think.

Had traffic, 60 or 70 hits a day, then only got £70 or so for it :/
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A timely thread, I'm also toying with the idea of selling all of my sites.

I've got a promotion at work starting from 1st April (have been offered a partnership in the firm) and probably won't want the distraction of freebies.

A really tough decision but need to look at all the options.

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A timely thread, I'm also toying with the idea of selling all of my sites.

I've got a promotion at work starting from 1st April (have been offered a partnership in the firm) and probably won't want the distraction of freebies.

A really tough decision but need to look at all the options.

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Wow, you should have bitten their hand off!

Where were you promoting it?
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genuine offer, or a dodgy offer like I just had?

I was offered £5,500 just for the domain!! bastards!!!!!
 
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Very timely thread as I am thinking of getting rid of Thingz4Free. Have been thinking about this for a while actually as I lost interest in the whole Freebie Scene about a year ago. Lost even more interest with current events over here
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genuine offer, or a dodgy offer like I just had?

I was offered £5,500 just for the domain!! bastards!!!!!
Pretty sure it really was genuine. The offer was from a uk ltd company and at the time the site was earning an awful lot!! I won't say the exact numbers but it was enough to make me put off the sale as I could have made more in under a year than they were offering...
 
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100000 quids?! Why didn't you sell it then??
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I thought he answered that. Would you sell a site if you thought you could make more money on it?

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