should I buy this passive income website?

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So we're on flippa and we come across this travel website Wishful Travel - Wishful Traveler | Spend the day pretending.

They say it's passive income from clicks, Adsense and affiliate commission. Its listed at $170 that can't be right.

How It Makes Money (for details scroll down):-

1. Adsense ads - You earn revenue per click when users click the ads.

2. Hotel pages (Affiliate Program #1) - You earn revenue per lead when someone searches for a hotel on a specific date and clicks "GO" next to one of the travel providers.

2. Flight and Car search (Affiliate Program #2) - You earn per lead when the user searches for a flight or hire car and clicks select next to one of the providers.

3. Cruise search (Affiliate Program #3) - You earn per sale when a user books a cruise through the search box. The commission is 3%.

The amount you earn per lead with the hotel, flight and car search depends on the quality of traffic and the value of the booking being searched.


They won't share the affiliate program until who ever bids and wins it wins it.

The flippa listing is https://flippa.com/3138889-automated...es-rental-cars

they say you can make $1-$4 per user while they search around your website and $100 to 400 per day, what is this thing worth? Is this sort of thing worth the time to even do?

Passive income though sounds great.
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  • Profile picture of the author joseph7384
    You don't actually believe that a site that makes $100 - $400 a day would have a starting bid of just $170.

    I wouldn't touch it.


    Here's something to ponder over! If the site makes $100 - $400 a day of passive income, why would anyone even consider selling it.
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  • ZephyrIon,

    I think the seller was referring to THEIR projected income when they mentioned those numbers. Emphasis on "THEIR". With this:

    *** If you BELIEVE you have the capabilities and resources to consistently drive targeted traffic to the site, to gain subscribers from an irresistible opt-in offer in a squeeze page that you can add to the site, to have your retargeting / remarketing code work for you by having viewers who don't get your opt-in offers and subscribers who don't visit your affiliate sales pages to see your ads when you promote relevant offers in Facebook Advertising and in Google Adwords, and to update the content of the site regularly; then

    *** The next things that you should consider are the following --

    • Is the domain, existing content (written content, graphics / images, videos and so on), existing inbound links and existing site functionalities (search functions hooked up to affiliate offers and so on, including CMS) worth more than the starting bid or $200 or $1,000 or so, up to the maximum price that you'd be willing to pay for the value that you'd be getting from the site itself as it is now, and not from the projected income that the seller mentioned, but rather from your own projected income, depending on your capabilities to do the things that I mentioned above?

    Hope this helps...
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  • Profile picture of the author Mr Bill
    Claimed Financials
    No revenue is being claimed.
    No profit is being claimed..
    You're buying a pre-made website that makes no money. The $170 is the starting bit and there is a reserve which means they might want anything for it - there's no way to tell. You're buying potential. The site has no more value than it's parts and a bit for convenience. You might be able to build it for less. This site has broken code though (slider is hard left instead of centered).

    The ad also lies when it says "How It Makes Money" because it's not making money. It should be "How It Could Make Money" if anything. An honest seller would have used unambiguous language such as "potential income sources" or something similar. That for me is a massive red flag. They have lied in the ad. Smile, shake your head and click away.
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  • Profile picture of the author craighakwins
    Yeah, those are lies. If you can earn that much in a day, is there even a reason to sell it? Are they a charity or something?

    Stay away from it. If it's around $170 starting, and if it is actually a legitimately good site, it's going to end up around the $2000s
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  • Profile picture of the author guptadeepak2353
    HI,

    Do have a look at Alexa ranking and if it is good then the site might be making this much amount?

    Thanks
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    • Profile picture of the author Mr Bill
      Originally Posted by craighakwins View Post

      Yeah, those are lies. If you can earn that much in a day, is there even a reason to sell it? Are they a charity or something?

      Stay away from it. If it's around $170 starting, and if it is actually a legitimately good site, it's going to end up around the $2000s
      Originally Posted by guptadeepak2353 View Post

      HI,

      Do have a look at Alexa ranking and if it is good then the site might be making this much amount?

      Thanks
      lol...did you guys read the ad (or even my reply above)? The site is making no money. None. Zip. Nada. It's only value is that of a broken template and the domain name's value.
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  • Profile picture of the author maclennan
    trust me it is very difficult to make money with travel,rental websites, also they are offered everywhere, i.e ebay, remember you are up against the big boys in the rental business.
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  • Profile picture of the author miklanderson2
    No traffic. No page rank. No income. If there was easy money to be made from this template, the seller would send traffic to it and get the site profitable before selling it because it would command a much higher price that way. You're basically paying who knows how much (since the reserve hasn't been met) for a site the seller didn't care enough to fix before they put it up for sell.
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  • Profile picture of the author sr.20
    I would do your Due Diligence and look at the section called Due Diligence on Flippa regarding this listing
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