Buying Websites – Best Marketplace and Places to Avoid

When buying products, be it everyday items like groceries, or a once-in-5-years perhaps, like cars, we search for the best venue and avenue to do so.  For, the right kind of venue and avenue could save us some time and costs in the long run.

Same goes to buying websites.

Here’s an overview of a few places to consider when shopping for a website.

Ebay

With thousands of listing at any given time, wading through them can be tiring and time consuming.  First, go through Ebay and type in “website” in the search box.  Look for Businesses and Websites for Sale.  Refine your search to Internet Businesses & Websites.  There have been a few suggestions from certain quarters that the best way to sieve through the sand for the gold nuggets of a website is to section your search for ones that are selling for more than $500.  This is due to a lot of so-called ‘make-money’ websites – the ones with just pages of Amazon and Ebay auction products that are sold in duplicates, that makes it hard for owners to get decent traffic, let alone make money with it.

It has been in my experience that sellers come and go in this category.  And at times, due to the overwhelming competition, some sellers tend to lay low for some time for the competition to pan out before listing their products again.  So you really need to check out Ebay once in a while.  And on those whiles were when I was able to scoop up a few good websites, complete with .com domain names for less than $30.

Digitalpoint Forum (DP)

This is a place to buy some quality websites and it’s generally cheaper too.  Look under Buy, Sell or Trade and then find Sites.  The way people bid on the websites is by posting their bid amount on the thread/reply on the bottom of each listing.  On the downside, buyer’s protection does not seem to be as good as Ebay or at the next place that will be mentioned – Sitepoint.  Having written that, you may find that some sellers have taken to advertising their websites which are for sale at Sitepoint, for more eyeballs at DP.  Due to that, people tend to head over to Sitepoint to shop for websites anyways.

Sitepoint

Sitepoint’s Marketplace has become a sort of  go-to venue for finding various types of websites, from the Startup, to Established and Premium ones.  The trend for Startup websites right now are the so-called “Clickbank-Ready” sites.  This is where you can buy the website and get it listed under Clickbank so that owners would be able to get affiliates to help market the product.  This type of website can command more than $1000 by certain popular sellers.

If you are looking to have a website with revenue, then skip over to the Established or Premium section, where you can search for various types of websites that may just bear you steady profit into the future.

So with the above short review, here’s hoping your shopping trip would be better rewarded.