Selling Established Computer Forum

I'm reducing my portfolio of websites at the moment due to a change of priorities in life, and the one below is one I need to sell as I haven't the time to expand it.

URL: http://www.thefruitycomputer.com

It's a Raspberry PI website, which as you may be aware, is the latest hot must-have item if you are interested in programming and small form factor computers.

Due to this website being the only forum apart from the official Raspberry PI forums, there is a great opportunity to grow this into something spectacular. It just needs some TLC!

Traffic wise it's getting 3000 to 7000 hits a month, all organic. I haven't done any promotion for at least two years.

Adsense is installed, but only making minimal, £30/month.

I haven't spent any time on this site in the past year, apart from keeping it running. It needs someone who can take it over and expand on it, it'd be a shame if I had to shut it down.

IPS licence can be transferred across as well if required.

PM me if interested and we can then talk money. I'd like to get around the £1k mark if possible, but am open to negotiation.

Few things to consider - t's very inactive and you haven't worked on it in years, the forum itself isn't on the homepage and the homepage redirects to a page 3-4 levels deep (/forums/page/index.html) and no clue why it's like that. Minimal income. Since it has more members than posts - that means most of them may be spam registrations. Any time the user amount is higher than the post count, that's usually a red flag.

If you could run a tool to clean out the spam accounts, then I'd be willing to buy the domain name and database, that way I could just import the content and users to my own site that has the same topic. You could even keep the IPS license or sell that to someone else.

I see good potential there. I agree more members than posts surely means a lot of spammers. If I didn't have a site on my radar to buy I'd think about this one.

Hi,

Yes, it's not very active, and does need some work to it, but that's a reflection on my lack of time available to spend on it (and also why I want to sell it).

Regarding the members, it's got more members than posts because you need to register to download files:

http://www.thefruitycomputer.com/forums/files/

The original thinking behind it was I then had a userbase to email site updates. I've never actually had an issue with spammers.