What scares me about Sitepoint, look at this scam!

Take a look at this auction at Sitepoint http://www.sitepoint.com/marketplace/auction/9140 . This guy really got busted. I want to buy a nice website in the near future. But with so many scams running around how do you know whats real and not a scam? If I got scamed I would go looking for the scamer and get my revenge! What do you guys think about this?

Greg

why would i sell my website earning 15K/month?

You might be interested in http://paymentblogger.com/2007/04/26/250-to-spend-let-tim-help-you-spend-it-the-grey-way/
it explains how scams tend to work and offers some basic advice on protecting yourselves.

thats what entered my mind exactly when i read this thread...

Thanks for the link ventureskills.

@soulwatcher, if I had the money to buy that kind of site, I would probably hire a bunch of writers, programmers, and promoters to create a SUPER site for me

so I would not worry about it

You do have a point I dont have that kind of money. But I dont know if the post got deleted I havent looked. But the guy tryed to pass off the website as something that he payed $10,000's to develope when all it is, is some php script that you can download for free.

 I also have a friend who got burned on a website from sitepoint. His website was much cheaper it is a wall paper website and it was suposed to be database driven. But after he payed the guy he found out that it uses peral and there is no database and he cant do any mods to it with out redoing the entire website.

I guess the point that I was trying to make is you really can never tell with site point. (for me anyway) On who is being honest and who is running a scam. I just found out about a scam on how to inflate your adsense to make it look like your website is doing really good when infact its really not getting that many click throughs. There are so many ways to inflate a website its hard to tell who is telling the truth.

I would like to spend up to $5,000 and buy me a really nice website. But I am very afraid of getting ripped off. Maybe its better I take the $5,000 and develope my own website.

When you are about to buy a medium/high priced web site, you need some insurance.

For example you can say to the seller that you want to install a js statistics package to the site (eg. google analytics) for a week before you buy. This way you'll be sure for what you are buying.

When you are buying such a site only traffic and earnings are important as the script and the content is something you should take care alone (or with some professional assistance if you don't)

thats a great idea about installing your own stat code. if the seller wont comply, hes definitely hiding something.

If you've got that kind of budget, think of a good niche site, hire a bunch of good developers and designers here at webdigity, and get SEO expertise of one of our members here and you've got yourself a super site.

Designer that's a good plan - and usually I prefer to work that way - but sometimes buying a site can save you a lot of time. On the other hand the internet "real estate" is really cheap. At least I can't think of a business that you can buy for $10.000 and earns $1.000 per month :)

just don't try it ok.. :'(