Offers Usenet reseller for sale with customers and income

[DNGeeks]

Domain: Usenetguide.com
655 backlinks in google
Page Rank: 4
Age of Domain: Started July 1 2002
Expiry Date: July 1 2008
Registrar: Moniker
Reason for sale: Investment in new project
Yearly Income: ~$10,000 US

This is being reposted due to many incorrect figures in my origional post in the exclusive section.

What is Usenetguide.com? Usenetguide is a reseller of usenet services. Bandwidth is purchased from the parent company and resold to customers in various forms of account sizes in both monthly and yearly accounts.

Monthly accounts have a set limit size and renew that limit on their anniversary date. Yearly accounts are good for one year or when their bandwidth allotment has been used.

Payment methods currently accepted are Visa, MC, Amex and Discover in both US and Canadian funds.

Current income varies monthly but last year US sales were approximately $7900 and Canadian sales were approx $2400CAD. Many yearly paying customers renew their account multiple times per year when their bandwidth has been used.

Asking Price $15000 USD payable via escrow.com.

Purchase includes customers, domain, website, control panel, 8TB (value of $1700US) of data in reseller account, contacts, and 90 days of email and telephone assistance if you require.

Hosting for 30 days will be provided but after that date must be moved to your own server or you must pay the monthly hosting costs on my server.

If possible I will include the current merchant account with InternetSecure so no billing will need to be transferred. I need to check on this as I am unsure if I can simply transfer the account or not.

Any questions please feel free to post or PM.

 

[Poohnix]

Hi,

I might possibly be interested... I run a usenet operation already, (much larger, the data you have in your account is less than my users download in a day), and would in that case integrate this into our current systems.
But I have some questions.

Who is your current upstream provider?
Do you maintain your own user database, or is it all in the providers control panel? If so, is it possible to export to an external db?
Are the subscriptions defined and controlled from your system or entirely in the merchant account system? (Meaning; would it be a huge deal to transfer the billing to another system. I don't think it will be possible for us to take over that.)

/G

 

[DNGeeks]

The upstream provider is newshosting (who I'm sure you know was bought out by usenetserver). The control panel is hosted by them, but it only has my own customers in it.

Subscriptions are defined by however I want them to be, I origionally chose the packages to compete with what other providers out there offer.

Could the customers be transferred over to another billing system? I would assume so, since it's my merchant account and not third party billing, but I would need to confirm with them and it's a holiday weekend in Canada so I wouldn't be able to find out until tuesday.