An interesting website for sale at SitePoint is tooth.net.

The domain was registered back in September 1996 and is of course one word, therefore very valuable.

The site itself isn’t too hot - and looks like it hasn’t been updated since November 1998.

Bizarrely the seller has only recently put Adsense on the site, therefore there’s little in terms of information regarding revenue.

Current bidding is at $6,500, with a BIN of $15,000.

You can check out the auction here.

Tags: Sitepoint

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With not been online much the last few weeks, I’m well behind with checking forums for websites to buy.

Looking at Digital Point, it looks like there’s hundreds of posts to skim through. As usual, the quality of sites on sale leaves something to be desired.

Over at webmaster-talk.com, there’s a major change as they’ve gone for a SitePoint style marketplace. Admittedly, I really am not a fan of this kind of method - as it’s always difficult to keep track of new posts. That said, one improvement over SitePoint is the listing of the site’s domain in the main index. At present it looks like it’s free to list a site there, however, I doubt that will last for long.

Talking of charging for listing sites for sale, it makes me wonder how much longer Digital Point will remain free.

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Something that really annoys me is when people don’t reply to your private messages on forums. For example, I bid for a domain and the person says I could have it if no-one bids more. Well a week later, no response, so I ask did I win - of course, no reply.

It really puts me off doing business with people who are ignorant, as it makes them look like they can’t be trusted. Which brings me on to another thing.

Yet again webmaster-talk.com another scammer. Two people paid for a recipe website and never received it. Of course, they’ve put in a dispute at Paypal, which we know is about as much use as plastic fire poker.

These events and these type of people we can do without, as it adds to the distrust that’s already there.

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I noticed on webmaster-talk.com another thread where someone had been ripped off.

It’s basically the same old story. Someone had paid upfront for a website without receiving the domain or files and the seller absconded with the loot.

In this case, it seems the seller had previously sold the site at Digital Point and the scammed buyer failed to check the domain’s whois information.

Luckily, the buyer managed to confirm that the seller was the same person who sold the site in the first place via the Paypal information and quickly made a complaint via Internet Crime Complaint Centre and put in a dispute at Paypal.

Usually, the story ends with Paypal refusing to refund regardless of how much evidence you provide, due to websites and domains being ‘intangible’. However, the unfortunate buyer managed to find a real address for the ’seller’ and got his money back after alerting him that the Police were on there way.

It’s good to hear a good outcome for once, as usually the scammers always win.

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