Poll: Would you consider selling the escapist?

[kidd25]

hell no, you guys are family to me...huh i need to be here more. i seriously know nothing of you guys and yet i want to.

 

[Slycne]

Heh. Sites like that are quite amusing.

My mother attempted to start a consulting service with her IT skills, and because she registered as a business, she ended up being listed on a business website.

Now, we found this listing, and it was quite amusing... Apparently, despite having no customers, no assets (apart from a government loan), no revenue, and well, pretty much nothing that could qualify as the signs of a real, functioning business, the website still listed her company with a valuation of about 1.1 million Euros.

Yeah, that's right. That's more than double what the escapist is worth, according to your source, and the escapist is an actual, functioning company, where my mother's most definitely was not.
(she's made a tiny bit of progress since then, but still...)

It really makes you wonder how these kind of sites come up with valuations...

Yeah, most of these kind of sites are lucky to be even in the ballpark. For instance, we get far far more than an average of 138,712 daily page views and our uniques have been sharply rising between May 2010:2011 instead of steadily falling as that site might have you believe.

Lord knows how they calculate that worth and daily ad revenue.

 

[CoL0sS]

Given the fact that this site means so many to so much people I probably wouldn't sell it. Besides, I wouldn't know what to do with all that money. But I'm feeling sentimental atm so...

 

[Gasaraki]

Also wikipedia makes $400,000 a day. Not bad for a encyclopedia.

Wait... what? Wikipedia does have any advertising revenue, it's non-profit.

 

[CrystalShadow]

Heh. Sites like that are quite amusing.

My mother attempted to start a consulting service with her IT skills, and because she registered as a business, she ended up being listed on a business website.

Now, we found this listing, and it was quite amusing... Apparently, despite having no customers, no assets (apart from a government loan), no revenue, and well, pretty much nothing that could qualify as the signs of a real, functioning business, the website still listed her company with a valuation of about 1.1 million Euros.

Yeah, that's right. That's more than double what the escapist is worth, according to your source, and the escapist is an actual, functioning company, where my mother's most definitely was not.
(she's made a tiny bit of progress since then, but still...)

It really makes you wonder how these kind of sites come up with valuations...

Yeah, most of these kind of sites are lucky to be even in the ballpark. For instance, we get far far more than an average of 138,712 daily page views and our uniques have been sharply rising between May 2010:2011 instead of steadily falling as that site might have you believe.

Lord knows how they calculate that worth and daily ad revenue.

Yeah, that's quite odd. I can't comment on the details since I don't have any ability to track these stats myself, but the page view figure seems pretty unlikely...

I mean, maybe I'm a heavy site user, but if I make a rough estimate of the number of page views I can attribute just to me personally on a typical day... a figure in the hundreds of thousands would put the number of people looking at the site at an ridiculously low figure.
(like, from a few hundred, to maybe tens of thousands of people a day. Considering what the likely revenue per person is, there's no way the escapist could have a staff as big as it appears to with those kind of numbers.)

 

[John the Gamer]

Also wikipedia makes $400,000 a day. Not bad for a encyclopedia.

Wait... what? Wikipedia does have any advertising revenue, it's non-profit.

I know, but maybe they haven't been totally honest with us. I'm guessing it's donations they use to keep the site running. Although it DOES say "ads revenue"... And that is only the English version of the site.

Check it out;

http://valuethewebsite.com/www.wikipedia.org

 

[Akytalusia]

i'm not sure what the question is asking. to sell it i'd have to own it. does owning it grant me an income, or would it cost me money to own it? the answer to that quesiton would determine wether i'd sell it or not.

if it's just going to cost me something, i'd sell it.
if i have income just from owning it, without having to do anything else, then why the hell would i sell it?

if it granted me income, but i actually had to work on it, i guess it would depend how much i was making and how much work needed to be put in i guess. just like any other job.

 

[Ham_authority95]

Okay, so I was just browsing around the web and I stumbled upon a website that lets you find out the monetary value of a website (in dollars). As well as being able to find out where it's server is located, how much money are made off of ads everyday and even how many page views there are..

So I typed in the escapist and found;
http://valuethewebsite.com/www.escapistmagazine.com

What I find the most interesting is the monetary value of the escapist which is right around $525,101 USD. What's even more striking is that it's ranked #3,733 on the Alexa ranking system which has a few hundred thousand sites listed. Considering all of these figures if you owned the Escapist, would you sell it?

Personally I wouldn't sell it; even when it reached over a million dollars in worth, because I would hate to have the site be changed drastically and or closed down by the new owner.

Questions first: Why am I selling The Escapist? Who am I selling to? What do they plan to do to the site once it's theirs? What are the pros/cons of selling a moderately successful venture like The Escapist? How much money am I getting from The Escapist in the first place? What will the community think of it?

A good businessman makes more questions for every question asked.

 

[Imp_Emissary]

I'd sell it.

I kinda hate it since Extra Credits got here.

That said, can I just buy LRR and make them obey my every command instead?

DANCE, MONKEYS, DANCE

I don't suppose you could explain why you don't like Extra Credits? Why do I want to know? I love to learn.....and I feed off willingly given personal information like a vampire.

Feed me please.

 

[Rakkana]

I wouldn't sell all of it. But I would sell majority rights.

 

[Xan Krieger]

I'd keep it, get rid of Jimquisition, and then use the site to make more money (partly by getting a better show then Jimquisition).

 

[Ogargd]

Wait till it's worth an absolutely life changing amount of cash, I'd hate to see the site change or loose influence on it.

 

[loc978]

If I had the choice of selling it or running it, I'd choose sell. If I could nab the profit for the rest of eternity with no effort on my part, I'd keep it.

What can I say? I'm pretty disloyal. I had a mercenary attitude in the Army, too.
...my various squad leaders all hated that...

 

[Gearran]

I'm going to say no, but I've a question: What the hell is the "Alexa system"? I've never heard of this thing before. What are the criteria that this rates? What is the focus size? What the hell is it for???

 

[Zeema]

Betrayal of the Community?

I WOULD NEVER DO IT

Betrayal to me is worse then Death

 

[bl4ckh4wk64]

Chances are, selling it would probably do to the escapist what Google did to Youtube. I would never do it.

On a side note, the Escapist has been around for almost 7 years? Holy shit!

Edit: Did anyone else get this weird video captcha thing?

 

[Spartan448]

Would not sell!

Interestingly enough, Minecraft.net is actually worth more than the Escapist.