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I've never bought or sold a community and I've only had communities on non-self-hosted software where I'm pretty sure it's against the TOS to sell your board anyway.

I don't have much experience with monetization, so I'd probably never buy a community because that's the only real purpose I can see to buy one.
 
I've never bought or sold a community and I've only had communities on non-self-hosted software where I'm pretty sure it's against the TOS to sell your board anyway.

I don't have much experience with monetization, so I'd probably never buy a community because that's the only real purpose I can see to buy one.
I do not think monetization is a criteria for buying and selling. I see a lot of people buying communities that are not yet monetized or even when they are monetized, they are not generating revenue.
 
I do not think monetization is a criteria for buying and selling. I see a lot of people buying communities that are not yet monetized or even when they are monetized, they are not generating revenue.
I guess being more on the poor end of the spectrum, I'd probably only buy a community if I could monetize it. I'm more fond of starting afresh when having my community instead of taking over other people's creations.
 
Recently sold a domain, the XF license (which included XFRM and XFES) for a while $25.
Primary reason... the buyer was a close friend who is disabled by federal requirements. The secondary aspect was... I really don't care to continue to give XenForo and their "whelps" anymore funds than I have to. It was a good deal for Brandon... and it allowed me to kick to the curb a license I would never renew (XF license valid through 07/24) and a domain (valid through 10/24) and that I honestly had no desire to "chase" activity on.
 
I have always thought about buying older communities and keeping them running. It is something I would still like to do, but don't have the funds to really achieve it. Sadly most get sold fairly fast to people who revamp things almost the next day.
 

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