Don’t buy a website
Don’t Buy A Website
They say a sucker is born every minute and in the world of online business, it’s even more true. Sadly nowhere and no time in history has seen so many fools and their money soon parting ways.
A friend of mine was considering buying a website and asked me my opinion. My first reaction was to tell them that they would be better off putting their money in an envelope and mailing it to the moon in the hope that a moonman penpal might send you a big moon diamond. OK, a bit much!
But every time I go onto the digital point sales forum, all I see is dodgy, shady and seedy sellers trying to flick off their websites onto unaware, naive buyers. Worse still it continues to happen.
These professional website sellers, know exactly what tricks to pull. Don’t declare their expenses, so a site making $500 per week seems very attractive, but it wouldn’t seem so atractive if you knew they spent $499 per week on advertising.
The out and out lie about trivial things and they play every trick in the book to make their traffic look good, but it’s usually potentially buyers that make up a huge proportion of the traffic stats.
Do not purchase a website until you read this article : Purchasing A Website
For all these reasons and more I would never reccommend buying a website, in fact don’t buy a website, make your own and build it up into something special.
My biggest question to sellers is this, if it makes $1000 a month for only one hour per week why would you sell it?
The truthful answer is you wouldn’t!
