How would you evaluate this one?

[Mike-J]

Beeing a newbie I came across this post here:
http://www.dnforum.com/f36/6-celeb-t...ad-286571.html

How do the pros evaluate offers like this one? $1000 doesn't sound too
bad, you could get it back withhin 5 month... I'm just wondering why does
he sell at this price, are there not too many domainers who could do the
tech stuff, are the revenues going down the tube, does running sites like
this mean a lot of work?


in short words: What's the catch?

thanks for some advice

Mike-J

[Tia Wood]

Yes, yes and typically yes. Welcome by the way.

[DDC_Cyn]

Also, before even thinking about taking over an adult site, think of the legalities. There are rules about having legal docs on all nude models, which you can't have if it's a celeb site - plus you're risking getting sued by any of the talent or their agents.

I wouldn't take on a celeb adult site without a lot of experience behind you.

[zabijaq]

I think that post is just junk

User got 5 posts, OK I don't have much more.

I know Alexa is very inaccurate but TGP surfers are dumb and uses IE6 so Alexa penetration is higher so accuracy might be better.

But alexa rank 1,400,000 can't have 2,500 uniques/day. No way. I have one blog with 3-4,000 uniques (about 40% IE6 visitors), and alexa rank from 33-45,000. When my site have 2-3,000 uniques, I have rank about 55,000.
Very suspicious for me, that site with same traffic (as on of my blogs 1 month before) have alexa rank so different. 1,350,000 sites between can't hide in misaccurate alexa with it's toolbar.

That guy is probably try to overprice his sites.
And those earnings looks quite fishy to me. take that he got annualy about 5-6,000 uniques (he say), in reality upon wierd Alexa ranks, he might have 2,000 uniques, 2k uniques on TGP (most fo the traffic is from trades, where visitor is cheated so about 40% of those uniques closes window immediatelly). This means about 1k uniques in reality sees his site. 1k uniuqes on TGP won't earn 300-500$ a month.