IPBSkinworks.com

Age Of Site: 3 months

Description:

IPBSkinworks is a reseller of skins for the Invision Power Board. At the moment we have 9 styles available for purchase and 1 smilie pack. There are also a couple unreleased skins that can be viewed on the site forums. They include the Mellow and FazeX skins.

The site features a clean layout inspired by one of the skins offered on the site and is powered by Subdreamer CMS. The site and forum databases are integrated so customers only need to register once to be able to access both. The Support Desk is a plugin for Subdreamer so it also works off this database.

Purchases and downloads are handled by a modified version of the Download Manger plugin for Subdreamer. This includes a modified version of the Payal addon for said plugin. Users browse the downloads and then proceed to Paypal to pay for their purchases. I contacted the plugin writer and also had a few features added. The first thing I paid to have added was manual order approval by an admin before purchases can be downloaded. This is a useful fraud prevention technique. Another feature I paid to have added was that users must enter the URL of the site they plan to use the skin on before they can download. This is so I can make sure that skins aren’t used on unauthorized sites. The last feature I had added was the ability to manually add orders. This could be useful if a sale were to take place such as a buy-one-get-one-free sale. Below is a screenshot of the Download Manager AdminCP.

Download Manager AdminCP Screenshot

Please ignore the ‘Items Sold Past 30 Days’. This includes licenses that were imported from the old order system.

The forum has 301 users and 296 posts. 26 of the members are product owners. The site is well indexed by Google with 460 results to the query site:ipbskinworks.com. The site is also has a PR of 5.

What This Sale Includes:

Exclusive rights to the IPB version of every skin, released and unreleased, on the site. You will also receive the smiley pack that is up for sale. Please be advised that some of the skins on the site are authorized ports of vB skins from vbSkinworks and that the new owner will need to sign a document stating that they recognize they own rights to only the IPB ports.

All site files. This includes the main site and forum. The sale includes a branding free Subdreamer license valued at $160 and a perpetual Invision Power Board license valued at $185.

The domain. Registered at Godaddy and expires January 17th, 2008. It is PR 5. Alexa ranking is 130,054.

Ad banners. They can be seen here. I will also include a leaderboard sized ad which is an enlarged version of the 468x60 ad.

Revenue:

In the month I have owned the site their have been 21 purchases and $419.79 in grosses. One of these does not show up as profit in the AdminCP because the sale was made through email and later added into the database. Paypal screenshots can be found below.

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Traffic:

Some traffic comes from an Adwords campaign and some advertising I’ve done on Invisionize. Average uniques/day is 130. Awstats reports that 70% of the traffic is from Direct Address / Bookmarks. A link to a screenshot of the Awstats is below.

Awstats Screenshot

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As you can see, time and effort has gone into putting this site up. Much of the credit for this goes to John, owner of vbSkinworks and former owner of IPBSkinworks. As such, this site will not be going cheap.

This auction will be posted on other sites as well and I will keep this thread current with the high bid.

Starting Bid: $3000

Buy It Now: $6000

Bid Increment: $200