I looked, considered it, but then backed away because of my hesitation regarding the potential of automotive sites and eBay motors. I have a “muscle car site” that gets satisfactory level of clicks through to eBay but does not convert. My conclusion is that there are are number of people that click and drool over these automotive sites and just don’t have what it takes to purchase via eBay Motors. All the “empty clicks” don’t help with eBay and their quality measurement methods. In my case a better understanding of the potential for the site might have moved me to purchase. Don’t get me wrong I see the “value” in what you created. Maybe a little extra on “potential” would be helpful.

I definitely understand the apprehension when there is alot thats not understood.

In ref to the feeling of being on your own once the site is in your possession, is somewhat true to a degree. I mean, I am not going to abandon the buyer with no help, but for economic reasons alone, I cannot get into the details of teaching someone on a 1-1 basis how to do everything on a specific site, as it would take me several days or longer to do.

That said – there is a plethora of learning already on this site and several others on how to use wordpress, how to use flickr, twitter, keyword research, SEO, etc. In addition, each of the plugins included with the site have pretty extensive documentation and forums that suport them as well.

Its also the exact reason I decided to offer the learning side of it as an option for someone who may not have the process of building one of these sites quite in tune yet.

I wish I could explain the level of detail the training videos get into, but in a nutshell, they explain exactly the type of things you ask about in your second section about what all the scary stuff means. The videos visually teach you how to do everything for this exact website, recorded while doing them on this website.

Thank you for the feedback on this as well!!

Mark

I looked at your CorbaStang e-bay auction, and this is just my opinion I like everything until I got to the buy it now bonus what that told me was I’m on my own as far as working with the site unless I spend a whole bunch more.

I think this cut out a lot of people that might consider buying it but know very little or nothing about blogging.

Their is a very large group of people that have seen their retirements go down the drain and are looking for ways to retire they have little computer skills but maybe would be willing to take a chance if the site also include a basic user manual with it.

The below is pretty scary looking stuff. What does this all mean?

Hosting: 30 Days, to give you time to move it to your own host.
Domain Name: CobraStang.com – Free transfer to your GoDaddy Account, registered through July 2010.
CobraStang Flickr account for all image posting needed for the site.
CobraStang Twitter account, ready for followers!
The optimized website, all custom created content, branding, logo’s and images (Unless notated in posts as credited to others)
30 Draft Pages of year-specific subpages, that need to be completed over time by the new owner. These are all the years of the Cobra Mustangs, and should be completed over the course of a month or two. (Or all at once if you desire)
10+ Published post content pages to get each of the main categories in place, as well as the Featured and Headline sections of the site working properly.
Plugins Installed and already configured include the following:
All in One SEO
Google XML Sitemaps
WordBay the Free ebay affiliate plugin
Smart YouTube Plugin
Flexi-Pages Widget
Redirection Plugin
Robots Meta Config (to noindex specific pages until they ready for search engines)

Again this is just my opinion

Best of luck with the auction. The ratings certainly will help you.

LOL – Yup! I have had that account for several years and Kim and ran a few pretty successful ebay stores.

I wouldn’t say the customer is always right, but it was just about communication and always doing what was right. :-)

Kims seller account is at 4393 feedback, and only 1 neg in 7 years!

Mark

@ Elijah – Shouldnt you be making some office space in the house for your new buisiness partner? :-/

Good to hear from you Elijah!!