How much do you think Boards.ie is worth?

airetam_storm

Mines just slow due to the bandwidth being used by other computers on the network, not complaining tho cause its free on the billpayers' goodness

seamus

Funk Daddy wrote:

I've never been on here before - sorry!!!!! I don't have a grudge against boards - I just said it loads really slow and that IMO it's not worth any significant monetary value.

IE - why?

How many hits does the site get?

It's a little slow today - but that's cos it was the bank holiday weekend. Everyone was back to work today and not wanting to do any work. Not majorly slow though, nothing painful.

http://www.boards.ie/webalizer/ for stats. Nobody really counts "hits" these days, but 1.5 million per day last month, if you're interested. It's less busy in the summer. Wait till Sept/Oct/Nov. Traffic goes through the roof.

Funk Daddy

Impressive stats.

chillywilly

just to make sure,are we bidding for boards? 2 rubals ono

airetam_storm

I'l raise you to two marbles

WhiteWashMan

seamus wrote:

but 1.5 million per day last month, .

thats actually just me and victor refreshing various threads in PI

airetam_storm

WhiteWashMan wrote:

thats actually just me and victor refreshing various threads in PI

Actually, i nearly believe you

evad_lhorg

WhiteWashMan wrote:

please, tell me about me then. im really dying to know.

no really....

ok yous set it up cause yous were geeks(yourself and devore and the other lad) and played lots of games. you had a hard life where your mother left and you were raised by sheep and the internet. you now rake in millions from what you say is a profitless internet forum.

did i mention the sheep?

Shabadu

WWM isn't an admin.

Gordon

But how did he know about the sheep?

Sarky

What price would you put on finding people able and willing to help with problems whether regarding computers, games, food, or personal issues? What about meeting a huge cross-section of people, and from them making some very good friends (and sometimes better enemies )? Or how about keeping in touch with those people regardless of where they are on the planet?


Priceless.

Or 50 quid a year, whichever's cheaper.

Loobz

I hit 1,000 posts today on Boards and I love every one of them. And you guys of course.

/me feels all squishy inside.

airetam_storm

Hehe his name is lube-z

Must sub soon as i get some cash

Shabadu

Gordon wrote:

But how did he know about the sheep?

He's watching you through the monitor!

RuggieBear

hookers, coke and sheep....hot dang!!

Loobz

airetam_storm wrote:

Hehe his name is lube-z

Correct..... is that it?
Id say boards is worth a fortune. It must, it just must

airetam_storm

Got tired of hookers so sheep became the first preferance...

randomfella

I do agree that the potential is there. Ireland is backward in terms of the internet and the future is only brighter. I'm not sure the founders/owners/mods are in it to make money. THey still have a huge personal interest rather than a financial interest. If they really did want to make it profitable, there are plenty of things they could do to make it happen.

Using statistics is very important, like market research.
Most people who post here are early 20's and male. ALso they are currently using the internet so it means they have some interest in technology. Immediately mobile phone, mp3 players, computers.... the list goes on comes to mind.

I don't know if you could do this but perhaps using cookies the advertisements could be tailored to suit the interests of the poster. FOr instance if somebody posts in regions say dublin city and they also post in soccer you could make ads for a football 5-a-side in Dublin to come up.

Webmonkey

Or boards could have an online technology shop

daveirl

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MorningStar

daveirl wrote:

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What is craiglist worth and who has paid for it? A lot of valuation is speculation of value. A lot of times things are valued at one price but are never sold for that value. The number of staff required if this was commercial probably make this an unviable business.

the jew

Some of you guys are way over estimating this site, the vast majority of members probably post very little, and it might be only about 5-10% of users that actually post regularly, when you're on the site a lot you notice the same names popping up for posts. At the end of the day, the site is profitless, and sentimental value doesn't count for shít unless the buyer feels the same way (which they probably won't, they buy it as a profit making business venture). The site is probably worth a good few thousand alright, but nothing major.

Webmonkey wrote:

oh oh Jew, wrong ones to piss off

/waves goodbye to jew

I said "probably", could easily be wrong.

danniemcq

servers = €300 a month
alcohol = €5000 a month
coffee = €50 a month
junk food = €100 a month
sheep = €500-1000 a month (depends on use and if Sarky_S is nearby(!))
protecting Pighead from angry boarders = €500,000 a month
staff = peanuts

boards.ie

[glow=9]priceless[/glow]

daveirl

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AdMMM

To me, boards.ie is priceless. But to a tycoon, boards.ie is worth very little and in order to transform it into a profitable business the site itself would change drastically into something that the majority of us may hate!

ecksor

Webmonkey wrote:

It won't be sold in a fit. Its worth too much personally to the team

Haha, even the people who know how non-money oriented we are would rightfully be sceptical of that one.

joejoem

100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Dinar

WhiteWashMan

evad_lhorg wrote:

ok yous set it up cause yous were geeks(yourself and devore and the other lad) and played lots of games. you had a hard life where your mother left and you were raised by sheep and the internet. you now rake in millions from what you say is a profitless internet forum.

did i mention the sheep?

i guess you dont know too much about me then do you?

garred

Can they not do affiliate links. I mean people on here buy from dvd retailers to komplett, etc. If they set up affiliate links to these sites surely they would make a few pound, sorry euro.
On the main issue I'd say its worth a few bob to the right buyer. I mean is it the mentality in this country. Take the Eurovision, Ireland moaned about hosting it whereas any advertising executive in America would be wetting their pants with an audience of over a billion for one event.

azezil

this much! \o/