Forums over 10k users - How much to sell?

[BamaStangGuy]

I wouldnt sell my site for 10,000 dollars right now... 100,000 dollars... we might be talking.... my Mustang site btw

[joeychgo]

As a general rule - when you buy a website you should consider what income the site makes.

The accepted rule of thumb is you pay 10-12 months worth of income.

Obviously there can be other factors involved, but thats the standard measure of value.


Im always on the lookout for forums to buy, especially car forums.

[SouthernTn]

^ 10 - 12 Months is a good start but there are other things to consider also..

I bought my forum for $1,000.00 from someone who really didnt have the time. During the first month, I made $400 - $500 selling ads.

Did alot of work and developed a fully functional website and Im just now starting to advertise the website and build links. Traffic is also increasing because of this.

Now, with the small traffic the site has 600 - 800 Uniques a day, Im making $800-$900 a month by the means of Casale and YPN.

Now, If I were to sale now, 10 - 12 Months revenue would not be enough simply because someone could easily take it up to 3,000 Uniques a day and double - triple their money invested. Plus, on top of the forums, they're getting a fully functional website with over 200 pages and adding more everyday. Not to forget, days after buying the forum, someone who helped me move the database over to the new server offered to purchase at $7,500 right off bat.. Thats when I knew, I had something I could turn into a powerhouse..

Normally, alot of forums people try to sell nowdays aren't even worth the price... I know alot are "attached" to their forums. but being attached isn't what determines price for someone else. Traffic/Potential/Revenue is what it'll sale for..

When buying forums, Design hardly ever becomes a factor in the sale.

Also, my forum stats are

Threads: 50,513, Posts: 698,173, Members: 6,607

Since adding vBSeo, all of our posts are just now starting to get re-indexed in the search engines, and I predict a big traffic boost soon.

[antialiasis]

Mine isn't going to have over 10,000 members anytime soon (heck, I'm still just messing around with it and testing), but if it did, I'd never sell it.

Not that anybody would want to buy it.

[Lee]

I think a forum of that size is going to sell for 8-15 months of net income.

[Kihon Kata]

Originally Posted by speedpro50

I think a forum of that size is going to sell for 8-15 months of net income.

That would mean mine is worth quite allot with 20 million page views/mo.

[Smiry Kin's]

Originally Posted by TonysDesigns

I have often wondered this also about my site. One of my sites has over 12,500 users and over 244,000 posts averaging about 1,600 posts/day with 100 registering daily(avg)

Site has 6.9 million page views also.

EDIT: 8 million this last month lol

its a girls forum what you expect? every one no's they can chat like hell! lol

[Kihon Kata]

LOL @ Chat like hell! hehe It's true! The S3X forum is pretty popular

Originally Posted by Smiry Kin's

its a girls forum what you expect? every one no's they can chat like hell! lol

[Smiry Kin's]

Originally Posted by TonysDesigns

LOL @ Chat like hell! hehe It's true! The S3X forum is pretty popular

could ya through that Age verifiy addon this way? or what did you use dude?