Author Topic: How to sell a website?  (Read 1673 times)

CowboyAndIndian

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How to sell a website?
« on: March 21, 2017, 07:17:03 AM »
I would like to sell a website I own. This is an online wine store, I do the technology/website while my partner owns the winestore and does the shipping.

Unfortunately, my partner is not keeping up his end of the bargain and the website is slowly dying because he is not shipping out the products on time (no fraud, credit card payments are not being taken). I own the domain and have paid for the hosting services. So this part stays with me.

I am a technologist and I do not want to own a wine-store which involves a lot of time (especially since I plan to FIRE in 2018).

These are some of the options that I have
  • Find another partner (needs to own a liquor license/store) who does not have an online presence and work with them. This one is hard, since I have trust issues with a partner.
  • Sell my website/domains to some other person
  • Just sell off the domains and shut down the website

Did I miss something?

How do I get started?

PS: If anyone is interested, the website is kowines.com
« Last Edit: March 21, 2017, 07:19:25 AM by CowboyAndIndian »

bwall

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Re: How to sell a website?
« Reply #1 on: March 21, 2017, 07:58:09 AM »
How *done* are you with the website? Meaning, that if you are still making money and enjoying your part, perhaps there is another solution?

Can you hire someone dedicated to credit card payment processing and shipping? They could come in once a day and process everything in the previous 24 hours. They could be paid from the proceeds of the website, so that cost is split 50-50.

It might be a hard conversation to have, but can you find out why the other guy isn't performing? No time? No interest to package boxes and fill out fedex labels? Not enough profit involved to be worth it? Or is it more serious, like your personalities clash?

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Re: How to sell a website?
« Reply #2 on: March 29, 2017, 07:16:20 PM »
I'm with bwall, talk with your partner or bring someone else in.

I was going to buy 100 bottles of Chateau St Michelle because it's cost is $0.00 but it cannot be shipped to Alabama. Also, the https cert is not working in Chrome. Cool site and name of the store.

http://kowines.com/Chateau-St-Michelle-Cabernet-Sauvignon-Cabernet-Sauvignon

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