Warrior forum sold for 3.2 million US dollars

[mineistaken]

Interesting news in webmasters universe.
730K users, $4 per user.

[MrTrollkien]

A. They have no Idea the mess they're getting into.

B. Things will change real soon

[lucas131]

that is
VERY INTERESTING
news sir sure!
thank YOU



for the S H A R E

only one reply left right after this one, be fast!!!

[dillonaire]

Freelancer.com WTH!?!

[Phoenix]

they found new sheep to fleece...that board banned me after one post..lol

[Vendzilla]

Warrior forum will be ran differently if it's going to make more money

[AdultKing]

Originally Posted by Vendzilla

Warrior forum will be ran differently if it's going to make more money

Warrior Forum already makes plenty of money, this acquisition was a bargain IMHO.

[brassmonkey]

a marketplace for the modern snake oil salesman

"make $500,000 in your sleep in 30 days!" only $99.99!!! 29th day they are on a flight to some island

[mineistaken]

Originally Posted by AdultKing

this acquisition was a bargain IMHO.

That was part of why I opened this thread. To discuss about that price.

[Jel]

Originally Posted by brassmonkey

a marketplace for the modern snake oil salesman

"make $500,000 in your sleep in 30 days!" only $99.99!!! 29th day they are on a flight to some island

I lol'ded

[SomeCreep]

Warrior what???

[Lichen]

Originally Posted by brassmonkey

a marketplace for the modern snake oil salesman

"make $500,000 in your sleep in 30 days!" only $99.99!!! 29th day they are on a flight to some island

Warrior forum summed up nicely.

[Just Alex]

For real? 3/4 of those users have India as their location and have zero value.

[blazin]

Originally Posted by Just Alex

For real? 3/4 of those users have India as their location and have zero value.

India is a huge market for the IM niche... are you really that racist and ignorant that you think all those brown people have no money?

[AdultKing]

Originally Posted by Just Alex

For real? 3/4 of those users have India as their location and have zero value.

Forget the 90% on WF. It's the 10% that make it valuable.

The price paid was cheap for the immense value adding opportunities that can be exploited on that site and these value ads can be done without disrupting the current operation of the forum. It's a perfect fit for the buyer.

[arock10]

I can only imagine the sales pitch for it. Did they get upselled for some other sites too?

[brassmonkey]

Originally Posted by blazin

India is a huge market for the IM niche... are you really that racist and ignorant that you think all those brown people have no money?

both

[RyuLion]

Originally Posted by blazin

India is a huge market for the IM niche... are you really that racist and ignorant that you think all those brown people have no money?

Good point ^^

Wow!
Currently Active Users: 19307 (2888 members and 16419 guests)

[Vendzilla]

Originally Posted by AdultKing

Warrior Forum already makes plenty of money, this acquisition was a bargain IMHO.

I know it make plenty of money, it is capable of making a lot more.

[johnnyloadproductions]

Originally Posted by RyuLion

Good point ^^

Wow!
Currently Active Users: 19307 (2888 members and 16419 guests)

How many of those do you think are bots?

[brassmonkey]

Originally Posted by Vendzilla

I know it make plenty of money, it is capable of making a lot more.

i bought fresh store builder there some other things not scammy

[Matt 26z]

Originally Posted by AdultKing

Forget the 90% on WF. It's the 10% that make it valuable.

I don't think a valuable 10% exists on that forum. Perhaps 1% or less.

It's a very on-topic forum, but the discussions are too low level to retain legit web professionals. The forum is geared more towards people in their 40s to 60s that are not proficient with web technologies (and don't aspire to be). That probably explains why get rich quick scams are the central theme of WarriorForum.

One look at the banner ads at the top says enough. On most days it's nothing but get rich quick scams. Where are the banners for dedicated hosting, stock images, designers, affiliate programs, etc...??? Their user base doesn't buy that stuff. They buy "How to make $15,000 by the first of the month."

[L-Pink]

So that means this place is worth what?

[brassmonkey]

Originally Posted by L-Pink

So that means this place is worth what?

3.2 million about 100,000 monshine jugs

[tiramisu]

well it depends on how many active users are viewing each day. Number of users dont mean a thing, its the traffic basically. Good business mind can monetize anything for a good profit margin, since its a forum and the resource it takes to maintain the site generally less than brick and mortar business, I guess it has a good chance to make more money than before. And forum is kinda outdated, who knows if the new taker will transfer the existing site to something like Linked or social type of thing and grow its user base from there, add more categories, add more contents, facelift it to a multi resource social type of site. I mean, 3.2 million if sold to a corporation is nothing really, it has too many good money making potentials.

Well by the way, I think its time for someone to buyout Freeones.com or later, the site is starting to die out and eventually become less value to potential buyer. Why buyout? is the pornstar archive and currently the massive content database. with a bit of touch up and transfer to a more updated web property, it will be the next hyper mega site.

[TheSquealer]

I could be wrong of course, but it always seemed to me that place was full of nothing but get rich quick schemes and the idiots that gravitate towards them. I must have been mistaken. Kinda surprised it would sell for that much.

[ErectMedia]

Originally Posted by L-Pink

So that means this place is worth what?

With all the Poo posts I'd say at least 7.5 million, no price tag for quality content.

[ffmihai]

nice money

[CyberHustler]

[Nice_Nick]

Originally Posted by Phoenix

they found new sheep to fleece...that board banned me after one post..lol

They banned me too.

I actually got an email from them regarding this wonderful news from some guy called Allen, I responded with

Why the fuck are you emailing me?

You banned me over a year ago as a newbie, I still don't know what I did wrong.

Fucking shove your forum up your ass. Don't email me again.

And then

I bet half of the 732,000 members you told freelancer you have are banned.

Made me feel better.

[NYRangers]

Originally Posted by AdultKing

Forget the 90% on WF. It's the 10% that make it valuable.

The price paid was cheap for the immense value adding opportunities that can be exploited on that site and these value ads can be done without disrupting the current operation of the forum. It's a perfect fit for the buyer.

Tell me this is sarcasm. I can't tell by the post alone, but I am giving you the benefit of the doubt.


If you also have looked into the purchase worth based on their selling package then you would know this comment is idiotic. That is why I hope your post was sarcastic.

[just a punk]

Originally Posted by brassmonkey

a marketplace for the modern snake oil salesman

"make $500,000 in your sleep in 30 days!" only $99.99!!! 29th day they are on a flight to some island

Exactly. They just sell all these "magic" books to each other. That's the only method they can make money with. As about the board, so its asking for money for every post in their analogue of the "Sell and Buy" forum.

[idolbucks]

Originally Posted by brassmonkey

a marketplace for the modern snake oil salesman

"make $500,000 in your sleep in 30 days!" only $99.99!!! 29th day they are on a flight to some island

Either that or I've never seen so many millionaires on autopilot in one place!

[Paul&John]

Originally Posted by arock10

I can only imagine the sales pitch for it. Did they get upselled for some other sites too?

[freecartoonporn]

only ??????????

[ottopottomouse]

Sounds cheap.

[lagcam]

Finally proof that get rich quick schemes do work.

[Lars_Cash]

Theres only one warrior...

[beks001]

I bet 90% of the ppl on that site can't even make a few hundred a month. I wasted years trolling that crap holy looking for answers. All I saw was a million automated 50k a month systems that all worked....righttttt

[mopek1]

Originally Posted by CyberSEO

Exactly. They just sell all these "magic" books to each other.

I spent some time there and became irritated very quickly. When I was first starting out I even fell for the "War Room" membership for $29 or so and bought into the hype. 5 Mins later I left it and never went back feeling like I was taken for a ride.

The place bans people quickly who expose any kind of truth and they are all high fiving each other over the magic books that CyberSEO talked about above.

There is little there of value to a surfer but it will make good money from naive newbs.

[adultchatpay]

GFy vs. Warrior Forum.

GFy wins!

[MrTrollkien]

Originally Posted by adultchatpay

GFy vs. Warrior Forum.

GFy wins!

In which terms? Just curious, you know...

[Sid70]

Shap at work, I guess )))

[signupdamnit]

With the way things work over there I wouldn't be surprised if the sale price were bullshit meant to inflate the perceived value of the forum.

Didn't some guys from there come over here to try to sell some ad on tube sites software or strategy? I remember being surprised that even though some of the tube bros tried to go to bat for them it mostly fell flat. It was a real lulz type moment seeing GFY turn into Warrior forum for a moment or two though.

Don't get me wrong there is some good info hidden there but much of it is people trying to sell their "get rich quick method" for $30.

[ITraffic]

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/warriorforum.com traffic is money.

[bigdave26]

Originally Posted by brassmonkey

a marketplace for the modern snake oil salesman

"make $500,000 in your sleep in 30 days!" only $99.99!!! 29th day they are on a flight to some island

[mineistaken]

Originally Posted by TheSquealer

I could be wrong of course, but it always seemed to me that place was full of nothing but get rich quick schemes and the idiots that gravitate towards them. I must have been mistaken. Kinda surprised it would sell for that much.

Notorious for that, but not only that. And it does not matter much if ebooks sold there would be quality or "get rich quick", it matters that money is being generated there.

[mineistaken]

I seriously do not understand people who are claiming the price is too high. It is as if they do not have any vision how that forum is money making machine, especially with certain upgrades.

[sandman!]

there are a ton of ways for the owner of that forum to make $$$ 3.2 does not seem all that high.

[TheSquealer]

Originally Posted by mineistaken

Notorious for that, but not only that. And it does not matter much if ebooks sold there would be quality or "get rich quick", it matters that money is being generated there.

My view on that (or any business) is that value matters a great deal over the long term. If it was a massive community full of useful people and useful discussions and a great place to learn specific topics then there is value there. If its just "get rich quick" schemes, which have no value then i think that fickle crowd can easily flee and go anywhere. The "get rich quick schemes" all have time limits. Just as most of the information there, has an expiration date... where sites, links, images etc are dead in most discussions.

I think forums are super tricky to run. GFY was once among the largest forums online.... let a few idiots in, ban a few of the wrong people and you totally upset the dynamics and unwittingly throw things into a tailspin... as GFY has done many times as they drove it into the ground. Of course mainstream is not the same as this industry and other factors also helped run this place into the ground.

It's hard to imagine a forum having much value (for me anyway)... or methodically increasing that value over time in what is really a fickle environment... but likely the value really depends on how the new owners intend to monetize the traffic. It might be a great deal for someone with an affiliate network or product that can benefit from that crowd.