buying sites with adsense from ebay?

[lightning2004]

there are 5 pages worth of people selling google adsense sites that are up and running from $3 to $50 are these for real? one said once you bid on it and win you download the site and then change the google ads with yours and thats it?

[fischermx]

Yes, they are real, but the thing is they are not "good" sites.
They are just like those scrapers everybody talks about.
Put your publisher ID on them and you'll get in trouble pretty soon.

[humblebeginnings]

"you download the site and then change the google ads with yours and thats it?"

Yeah, that's basically it.
After that all you have to do is wait until Google bans you...

But I sure hope G&E go after these bast@#$s...

[lightning2004]

belive it or not there also was a listing for i'll click on urs and you click on mine for $2 lol

[beren]

Last week I found a site for sale on ebay that copied material from one of my sites. I asked a question on the ebay community bulletin board about where at ebay I should report it, lest some unsuspecting sucker buy the site. I got no real response, just a warning that I was not "permitted" to contact bidders (I don't know how I would figure out who was bidding anyway.)

So today I put in the DMCA letter to Google. The site's still up there for sale at ebay. I'm not worried about the site; Google will kick it out of AdSense and it will die. I sort of feel sorry for anyone who buys it though, because at any price it is not worth the money.

[spaceylacie]

Go to Ebay and search for Click My Google Adsense Links, I'll Click Yours!

You'll find the listings that were referred to. Now that's bad.

[Paris]

Not all eBay ads are scraper junk -- though if the sites tout AdSense, high paying keywords and sell for less than $100, they are clearly more trouble than they're worth.

Once in awhile you will find a completely original hand-grown site on eBay. They're usually the ones that do NOT have AdSense on them already (or else they probably wouldn't have been put up for sale in the first place).

Your best defense, if the site appeals to you, is to cut a block of the text, and search for the sentence or two in "quotes" on Google. If it shows up on more than one site, run the other way.

[bts111]

I bought a site on Ebay last year and it has turned out to be a Adsense money making machine.

I agree that most of the sites for sale on Ebay are rubbish. Finding a quality site is as rare as hens teeth.

[david_uk]

Just took a quick look at page 1.

Mesothelioma

MP3 downloads (against adsense TOS)

Online gambling (against adsense TOS)

Didn't bother reading any more!

[ganderla]

I was able to run into a rare find on eBay too. It was a content site and everything is original.

I check the content every week or so and I have a copyright contract from the original owner.

I agree it was rare, but there are some diamonds in the rough. Very few though.

[mlalex]

I am not from USA.

Why dont someone from US login to the ebay.com and "ask seller this question".

May be this can educate the buyers.

[frox]

Click My Google Adsense Links, I'll Click Yours!

Yikes. Opens up endless posibilities to harm someone else's account.

Just figure Mr YourCompetitor sending your site's address to this idiot. It's like having a killer paid $2 ...

[beren]

Click My Google Adsense Links, I'll Click Yours!

The US Justice Department should prosecute eBay under RICO for facilitating organized crime. But law enforcement doesn't appear to take this sort of crime seriously.

[europeforvisitors]

If a site with AdSense code is worth buying, why is the owner willing to sell it for a pittance? (And $50 or $100 is a pittance, especially for a site that earns even a modest income.)

To use a cliche, you get what you pay for.