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How much does boards.ie make?

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  • #32
    LighterGuy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,243 ✭✭✭LighterGuy


    Degag wrote: »
    Very Close.

    you're afraid to actually say right? ;)
    Out of fear the mods will delete or edit right?


  • #33
    later12
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,298 ✭✭✭✭later12


    Rothmans wrote: »
    Oh yeah I saw that on thecso site, but AFAIK they're not legally obliged to make those documents public.
    Lord, don't tell me I'm already starting to forget what I learned in company law last year :P
    I think you might be confusing it with the requirement for their accounts to be audited. As a small private company, boards.ie ltd may not have to supply audited accounts under the 1999 Companies Act, but it will still be required to lodge its account details with the CRO as part of its annual return.


  • #34
    Mapck
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26 ✭Mapck


    Well I know that boards.ie receives 3.5 McDonalds Ketchup packets a week because I send them.
    And boards you are welcome


  • #35
    Pompey Magnus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,406 ✭✭✭Pompey Magnus


    Degag wrote: »
    For shíts and giggles, i did. I downloaded the wrong file though i'd say. Only juicy bit is how much they have in the bank as at 2009. Prize for whoever gets closest!

    Will this prize have a value greater than €2.50? If so I will consider entering...


  • #36
    cusackd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 126 ✭✭cusackd


    The traffic to the website alone is worth about 170k after that its how good the sales team is which i assume is really good as its done by distilled media then you have boards deals which id say has blown things out of the water since its started.


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  • #37
    --Kaiser--
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,461 ✭✭✭--Kaiser--


    I'd say they're making a packet as they're well able to keep the moderators stocked up with coke and hookers


  • #38
    Forest Master
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,466 ✭✭✭Forest Master


    Degag wrote: »
    Very Close.

    Just spit it out or f*ck off. Jesus christ, man - getting on a lame power trip because you know some gimp bit of info. You didn't even download the right year, FFS.


  • #39
    Forest Master
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,466 ✭✭✭Forest Master


    marty1985 wrote: »
    blow all the profits on coke and hookers
    --Kaiser-- wrote: »
    stocked up with coke and hookers

    Why do people always use this cliche? It's tired - the fact that both of you used it within a few posts of each other makes it predictable - do you want to be a predictable poster?


  • #40
    ninebeanrows
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,780 ✭✭✭✭ninebeanrows


    I dont have a clue but i would imagine very little. id say the place barely pays for itself. maybe 18-20k for its employees


  • #41
    Padraig Mor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,788 ✭✭✭Padraig Mor


    Weathercheck wrote: »
    I dont have a clue but i would imagine very little. id say the place barely pays for itself. maybe 18-20k for its employees

    +1. Given that Daft wrote off most of their investment in Boards, it's safe to say that the amount of profit Boards makes is in the region of SFA.


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  • #42
    KTRIC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,347 ✭✭✭KTRIC


    I don't think its worth much after the NAMA buy out.





















    Oooops, said too much :o


  • #43
    Wibbs
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,315 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    Weathercheck wrote: »
    I dont have a clue but i would imagine very little. id say the place barely pays for itself. maybe 18-20k for its employees
    I'd reckon similar. There are a lot of costs involved or at least it would be my take that there's more love for the place than profit that keeps it going.

    Many worry about Artificial Intelligence. I worry far more about Organic Idiocy.



  • #44
    Musicman2006
    Closed Accounts Posts: 124 ✭✭Musicman2006


    503? Why is that number stuck in my head..


  • #45
    teol
    Closed Accounts Posts: 292 ✭✭teol


    I found the accounts for 2008:

    http://www.scribd.com/doc/22316391/8oards-ie-Limited

    They had 38,000euro in the bank and 67,000euro from Debtors.

    Creditors - 31,000euro


    It seems they made a small profit in 2008 - 94,000euro (28,000euro in 2007)


  • #46
    7ofBrian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,261 ✭✭✭7ofBrian


    QI :)


  • #47
    Fluorescence
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 8,490 Mod ✭✭✭✭Fluorescence


    I shouldn't think there's much left over after all the costs of running the site and paying the staff. Mind you, it speaks well of a website that it's doing good enough that it can afford to actually employ some staff full-time.


  • #48
    Fart
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,825 ✭✭✭Fart


    900,000 euro per annum.


  • #49
    CrazyRabbit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,659 ✭✭✭CrazyRabbit


    LighterGuy wrote: »
    Just curious.
    Its a free to join and use message boards. Lot of ads. Not cluttered with ads. But still none the less present.

    How much does boards.ie make say ... every year?

    I've honestly never seen an ad on boards.ie...well unless I'm logged out and visiting as a guest.

    And I'm not using any ad-blocking software with this browser.

    As for how much they make, I don't think they are doing well. Afterall, the mods are paid peanuts for the work they do.


  • #50
    Fukuyama
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,023 ✭✭✭Fukuyama


    CrazyRabbit wrote: »
    I've honestly never seen an ad on boards.ie...well unless I'm logged out and visiting as a guest.

    And I'm not using any ad-blocking software with this browser.

    As for how much they make, I don't think they are doing well. Afterall, the mods are paid peanuts for the work they do.

    Then you are seriously visually impaired. You're as blind as this guy --> :cool:


  • #51
    Degsy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,397 ✭✭✭✭Degsy


    I'd say very little..thats why they have moderators to keep them out of court,a halfway decent payout from litigation would bankrupt the site and its owners.


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  • #52
    Mr Benevolent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,456 ✭✭✭✭Mr Benevolent


    Think they made a loss last year due to new servers. I was trying to subscribe for a year by Laser but it's not possible atm. May well subscribe as a Christmas present to Boards.


  • #53
    Degag
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,001 ✭✭✭✭Degag


    Pompey Magnus wrote: »
    Will this prize have a value greater than €2.50? If so I will consider entering...
    The prize will have no monetary value.
    Forest Master wrote: »
    Just spit it out or f*ck off. Jesus christ, man - getting on a lame power trip because you know some gimp bit of info. You didn't even download the right year, FFS.
    Temper temper!


  • #54
    Rothmans
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,807 ✭✭✭Rothmans


    Musicman2006 wrote: »
    503? Why is that number stuck in my head..

    Lol,
    'Boards error 503, Service Unavailable'


  • #55
    DeVore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,387 ✭✭✭✭DeVore


    cusackd wrote: »
    The traffic to the website alone is worth about 170k after that its how good the sales team is which i assume is really good as its done by distilled media then you have boards deals which id say has blown things out of the water since its started.
    Um, not being smart but how exactly would our visitors be worth 170K on their own.... we're not making Soylent Green over here you know :)

    DeV.


  • #56
    Seaneh
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,300 ✭✭✭✭Seaneh


    the turnover might be decent, but the majority of that has to go to pay Dev's hooker and coke habbits, danny's gambling debt and they still have to pay monty to keep quite about that thing he saw at the office in 2004...


  • #57
    DeVore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,387 ✭✭✭✭DeVore


    I'll save you all the trouble of downloading stuff (though knock yerselves out :) )

    We make about 40K-50K a month on ads gross. Now we pay for the sales service so thats a third gone and the rest is eaten by staff costs and overheads. Easily.
    Legal fees hurt, badly and one bad case and its game over.

    A lot of people on this thread really *really* dont know much about the webgame :)

    BoardsDeals is separate from Board (ie, it has its own staff etc) but we're technically the same Ltd Company so the accounts will reflect that. I dunno the numbers for them. Its doing grand though, very happy with it.

    Finally, you have to remember that accountants are very odd creatures altogether so sometimes end of year accounts are very far from the truth (eg: you buy a server, it gets depreciated over 5 years and that shows on your accounts for 5 years but the money leaves the actual bank account day 1!).

    The Coke and Hookers are a lie, made up by us many years ago in response to the same sort of over-valuations above!

    DeV.


  • #58
    DeVore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,387 ✭✭✭✭DeVore


    ps: a website which is selling even 20% of its inventory of ads is doing pretty well. Something to bear in mind :)

    DeV.


  • #59
    CrazyRabbit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,659 ✭✭✭CrazyRabbit


    DeVore wrote: »
    We make about 40K-50K a month on ads gross.
    DeV.

    I was serious above about not seeing the ads. Nothing blocked either. May want to look into that in case I'm not the only one. Though, I'm not sure if boards gets revenue per click or for just having the ads displayed. If it's the latter, then leave things as they are!

    Oh, and I'm happy to help by subscribing. If all users did it, then those legal fees wouldn't be so dangerous. I'd hate to lose boards.ie.


  • #60
    Degag
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,001 ✭✭✭✭Degag


    DeVore wrote: »
    I'll save you all the trouble of downloading stuff (though knock yerselves out :) )

    We make about 40K-50K a month on ads gross. Now we pay for the sales service so thats a third gone and the rest is eaten by staff costs and overheads. Easily.
    Legal fees hurt, badly and one bad case and its game over.

    A lot of people on this thread really *really* dont know much about the webgame :)

    BoardsDeals is separate from Board (ie, it has its own staff etc) but we're technically the same Ltd Company so the accounts will reflect that. I dunno the numbers for them. Its doing grand though, very happy with it.

    Finally, you have to remember that accountants are very odd creatures altogether so sometimes end of year accounts are very far from the truth (eg: you buy a server, it gets depreciated over 5 years and that shows on your accounts for 5 years but the money leaves the actual bank account day 1!).

    The Coke and Hookers are a lie, made up by us many years ago in response to the same sort of over-valuations above!

    DeV.
    You owe me €2.50.:mad:


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  • #61
    aaronjumper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,128 ✭✭✭✭aaronjumper


    Is it enough to buy me a present?


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