Cost of a board

how does a forum cost?

[dodoni]

Although I ve searched the forum, I coundn;t find something similar.
Sorry if there is something and I havent notice.

My question is: is there a way to find out how much money my forum costs? I have a suggestion by someone that wants to buy my forum and I have no idea how could I find out which price will be fair for both me and him.

I once found a script/programm where I was putting some data like number of members, visits per day, number of posts etc and it was calculating a possible price for the site.

According to that program, my forum has a price of 25.000 euros.

Should I rely on a little script like that?

Thanks in advance for any answers.

[Erku]

Give us some more details.

Industry, number of members, how many posts a day...

Se we have a better picture.

[dodoni]

My board is greek. After deleting all inactive memmbers, there are left artound 1400 members. We have 10.000 threads and aroynd 550.000 posts.

Visitors are around 20.000 per month.

There is some prototypia in it it: actually, they are 5 different boards that are compbined so as they work as one. (They share members etc. For exapmple, you make one registration and you are automatickly a member in all 5, you can get a private message in one board and read it in the other or you make one post in one board and your totall amount of posts increase etc)

The 5 boards are called "rooms" and each one have a different color and content.

Green room is for sports
Red room is for fun
Brown room is for arts
Blue room is for sciences
White room is called humanity (has to do with travels, pets, citizens problems, politics etc)

As far as I have searched, I never found a similar idea in internet. Of course, I may be wrong. But i just want to mention that maybe its not only the number of visits or members that should count in the price, but also the concept, the prototype idea that makes it a huge and none usual forum.

As i write these words, I realise that the idea is what makes me difficult to find out the price.

Do you need any more details?

Also, have anyone sold or buy a forum and could share his knowledge about that?

[viggen]

hi dodoni,

well, how much do you make with your forum per month/year?
Meaning how much income will you loose if you dont have that forum anymore, that would be a more telling number thena little script. ;)

regards
viggen

[rogerd]

Dodoni, I'd be cautious about using any kind of simple formula for forum valuation. Most forums don't make money, and rely heavily on volunteer labor. This makes them relatively difficult to sell. The highest valued forums will be in niches where there are advertisers willing to spend money or those where a complementary business (an ecommerce or other company) might find the visitors and pageviews attractive.