Your website - a baby.

hmm, Would you let go?

[rj87uk]

Well, Ive been offered cash for my website but I see it as my baby, my creation more than just a website with a domain name.

Would you sell yours?

My answer? No.

[trillianjedi]

If you had been offered enough money to make it mad not to sell, you would have sold.

<tongue in cheek>So lose the "my baby" nonsense ;)</tongue in cheek>

[shigamoto]

Funny you should mention this. I got an offer for one of my websites that I've really put my heart and sole into. I rejected it because I simply can't sell it, it feels like a baby.

While other sites I have wouldn't feel the same way at all. It's kind of weird how you get stuck to something like that.

[LifeinAsia]

Would you sell yours?

A) Cash coming in for sale of baby

OR

B) Cash going out for years for:
- food & lodging
- miscellaneous "loans"
- braces
- higher phone bills
- higher auto insurance once the kid gets a drivers license
- proms
- college tuition
- wedding

Not to mention:
- dirty diapers
- gray hair

No brainer! I recommened this as a SELL! :)

[grandpa]

My baby grew up, and is having babies of her own.

Make me an offer on any of my sites and I bet I get let it go too. After all of the learning, hand-holding, hand-wringing, gut-wrentching updates, and more, I'm ready and quite possibly qualified to build another one.

[Frequent]

Everything I have I would sell if given a really good offer. Well, except my real baby... and my dog... and vital organs... but pretty much everything else can be replaced.

Freq---

[Essex_boy]

How about the dogs vital organs then?

But seriously I would sell, it just depends on the price.

[buckworks]

There were times when I'd have been very nearly willing to sell my real babies, but those were the times when no one else would want them either! :)

[willybfriendly]

I had a semi-serious offer in the lower mid 6 figures that perked my interest once, but not enough to get serious in negotiating.

Now, if they had been standing there with their checkbook in hand it would have been a different matter I suspect.

WBF

[vincevincevince]

If the price was right... yep :)

[maccas]

I don't think I could. If I got a offer, it would have to be at least 5 years of its current income for me to consider.

[rj87uk]

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh....

I sold. I would have sold my leg at that price I guess!

So, im now going to make 5 new babies, but I will never forget my first.

So long, :(

[rj87uk]

My answer? No.

What was I thinking?

[PhraSEOlogy]

Weird,

But I still get that nasty feeling in the pit of my stomach when I let one of my (domain) babies go.

P.S. Apparently, you can write off the value of a webstie against taxes - so the pain is not that great.

[httpwebwitch]

it would have to be at least 5 years of its current income

I'd sell my favourite site for 7 years' worth. I would have trouble finding another niche that combines monetizability with personal interest; that's hard to let go of.