Experience with the Ebay "turnkeys"

**NWLB.net** · 07-26-2006, 04:08 PM

To what extent do these "turnkey" websites you see sold on Ebay live up to, or down too their advertised success? Assuming one does actively tend those sites, and even build onto them is a factor as well.

**colbyt** · 07-26-2006, 08:01 PM

Most of the ones I have seen sold there are usually in a saturated or low volume market area. As the name implies they use the same script and graphics for a lot of sites. In some cases the DB is exactly the same on multiple sites.

IMO you have a better chance of finding something here than there. Sometimes a person will mention an Ebay sale here. If posted by a regular that might be something worth looking at.

As always this is IMO and YMMV.

**NWLB.net** · 07-27-2006, 01:41 AM

It is interesting. There is one guy selling a blog directory (blogdir.us) which seems stocked with many blogs he himself posted. The blogs he owns seem as if they were proffesionally written, bought in a package, and posted en masse. That said, they are all very slick, functional, and actually rather informative on their topics. It all seems to lead to a cobal of self-supporting traffic not unlike what I'm doing with several sites I have.

Which leaves me wondering: where did he buy all of this stuff? With a tiny bit of effort I could take most of those blogs and build supporting sections that would really amp the traffic they get. But finding whom or where the sites were bought from is tricky.