DixieMarketing
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- Oct 11, 2013
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So I want to get some guys opinions that actually understand this business on a dispute I am having with someone I sold a website to on flippa. About 4 or 5 months ago I sold a guy a website for $5k that used a method that I have used for a long time. The site was making about $2k a month then. The method takes some labor and lets be honest every in this business wants something for nothing. So his first month the site made about $1400 but he was complaining he didnt have time to do the marketing because he worked full time. A few months go by and in three months he had made back about $3400 out of the $5k he paid for the site. The way I see it is on fllippa if a site even make anything you should consider yourself lucky with so many scams.
But I always try to ensure the buyers are happy so I give him another method and he is making good money but still complains it takes to much work even though I was very upfront about what had to be done each day. The whole reason I had sold him the site was I had moved over to a facebook method that worked better but I spend a lot of time and money testing methods so he wanted me to give him that method for free.
I told him I had spend thousands and thousands of dollars testing and months figuring out what worked and I was not going to just give away a different method but he felt since he bought a site that I should share all my methods.
Well I finally tell him that I will share the method if I get 30% of the NET revenues from the site each month because my new method took no work at all. So he says "I would do that for a month or two" and my reply was I dont want to give away a method that I could use on a site and then sell on flippa for $5k for free" and that if I did that he would just pay me a little money after one month and then make a lot of money.
So I tell him I am not interested in just a short term thing but I would show him for 30%. A few days later he skypes me again and say "Ok lets do the 30%" so I assuem he is ok with the terms.
So the first month he makes $9k in adsense income and close to $6k profit which means I will get about $1700 on that. Then the next month the site is on target to do about $15k with about $9k in profit so that means $2700. Now he says he is only paying for one month and then it is his method.
He feels he is taking all the risk which there is no risk after the first month because he made enough profit to cover any further overhead. He is in the same country and I know I can sue him but I really hate doing that and no one wins. He wants to pay me $2k and then end the partnership now that he realizes how much money he is going to make.
So would you be a jerk and go after him or just take the $2k?
But I always try to ensure the buyers are happy so I give him another method and he is making good money but still complains it takes to much work even though I was very upfront about what had to be done each day. The whole reason I had sold him the site was I had moved over to a facebook method that worked better but I spend a lot of time and money testing methods so he wanted me to give him that method for free.
I told him I had spend thousands and thousands of dollars testing and months figuring out what worked and I was not going to just give away a different method but he felt since he bought a site that I should share all my methods.
Well I finally tell him that I will share the method if I get 30% of the NET revenues from the site each month because my new method took no work at all. So he says "I would do that for a month or two" and my reply was I dont want to give away a method that I could use on a site and then sell on flippa for $5k for free" and that if I did that he would just pay me a little money after one month and then make a lot of money.
So I tell him I am not interested in just a short term thing but I would show him for 30%. A few days later he skypes me again and say "Ok lets do the 30%" so I assuem he is ok with the terms.
So the first month he makes $9k in adsense income and close to $6k profit which means I will get about $1700 on that. Then the next month the site is on target to do about $15k with about $9k in profit so that means $2700. Now he says he is only paying for one month and then it is his method.
He feels he is taking all the risk which there is no risk after the first month because he made enough profit to cover any further overhead. He is in the same country and I know I can sue him but I really hate doing that and no one wins. He wants to pay me $2k and then end the partnership now that he realizes how much money he is going to make.
So would you be a jerk and go after him or just take the $2k?