discountzippos.com

[dshaw]

Name of Site: Discount Zippos .Com
Description of Site: Sells Zippo Lighters & Accessories
Page Rank: 4
Alexa Ranking: 785,592
Traffic Stats: www.discountzippos.com/Log/Report username: zippo password: stats
Revenue: Site sells a lighter or two a day, nets $10-20 a day.
Reason for selling: Too many Projects

Site is DMOZ and Yahoo Directory Listed.

Ranks #5 for discount Zippos and #19 for Lighters and ranks ok for some other random zippo related terms.

Completely automated website and setup with real time transaction processing with PayPal Pro.

The DiscountZippos web site is based on the popular and robust OSCommerce Engine and includes all of the features of OSCommerce, with the following special features installed:

Enhanced Administrator management console - Enables multiple Administrators of the web store with various levels of access to site features
Automatic Supplier Updates – Web site contacts supplier twice daily to update pricing and stock levels, product images, discontinued products and new products. (cron required)
Seamless PayPal Integration – Web site uses PayPal for payment processing, but customer never leaves site or is required to sign up for PayPal. (PayPal Pro Required)
Template Engine – Easily change the look and feel of the web site using the template engine.
Checkout Special feature – Allows addition of special deals to offer to customers during checkout.
Audit Report – Download all products from the store to one spreadsheet for internal auditing purposes. Include only the information that you require for the audit.
Affiliate Engine – Run an affiliate program and allow others to sell products in your store. Set the percentage of payouts, when the affiliates are paid, and how they are paid. Affiliate “tiers” can be defined to allow higher payouts for better performing affiliates. Mass mail all affiliates with one click to notify them of new products, banners, etc.
Voucher/Coupon Engine – Define coupon and voucher codes to use in promotions for your store or as customer refunds or rewards. Coupons and vouchers can be defined by amount or percentage, can include free shipping, can be only for a certain set of products or categories or for the entire store.
Meta Configuration – Set the site’s keywords and description easily from the Administrator “backroom”.
“Also Purchased” – Define products to display in the “Customers also purchased…” section of the web site.
“Featured Product” – Define a product to always display on the home page of the web site.
Search-Engine-Friendly URLS – store links are formatted so that search engines will follow them.
Site Maintenance Notification – Ability to display a custom “Site under maintenance” message to all customers when the site needs to be down for maintenance.
Online Page Editor – Easily edit pages such as Shipping & Returns, Privacy Policy, etc. in a web browser.
Remit Tracker – Allows you to set your cost on each item in the store for easy profit calculations.
Cross-Selling Engine – Define products to advertise on other products’ pages for cross-selling.
Froogle Exporter – Export your product catalog into a file to be sent to the Froogle web site.
Image Updater – Update all images or just a few on the web site from a single ZIP file. (Not needed if using Automatic Supplier Updates)
Executive Summary Page – First page of Admin area shows summary of orders and customers as well as links to the most used features.

Payment: Escrow.Com - we split the fees.
Starting Bid: $2,500.00
BIN: 5,000.00

[rbfallon]

Nice website Dave, good luck with the sale!

[Joeychgo]

What about inventory? Is this a dropshipper site? If so, what dropship company?

[deerfern]

I have some questions, please?

Is this a unique website or a template, or a modified template? If a template, what was used?

Are you currently running any affiliates? If so, is the buyer required to continue the agreement?

The "Featured Product". Do you need to update that manually, or can it be set to auto update from the databsae? Or can the update be for specific lighters you choose, or by a random set of lighters the user chooses?

Does the 1-800 number come with the sale?

Can you supply any proof of income? (yearly, preferably)

You mention revenue is approximately. $10 - $20 a day. What type of advertising do you do? How much do you spend on it per month? Will you supply instructions on how/where to advertise?

When/what year was this site established? (how old is it?)
I did a check on archive.org and for some reason it says there is no record. I also checked DMOZ and for some reason the site doesn't come up. Also the PR for some reason is coming up only PR 1 for me.

If you can supply any other information I would greatly appreciate it.

Thank you,
Carol

[Dzordz]

Yeah good luck this is a nice one

If I had the cash would sure think about it.

[deerfern]

What happened to the seller?

[searchfordeal]

I think site sold..according to SP

[deerfern]

Huh. I tried searching there for just that possibility but I can't find a thread there. Do you have a link to it? Maybe PM me?

Thanks.