Homework before I make a bid re the TSD for sale.

[John Gryphon]

Collectively you lot have an answer for any and everything thus the questions are.

What`s it worth?
How much does it cost to run per year? IE Internet hosting etc.
Are there any shekels left at the end of the year?
Does one have to reside in the UK to own?

Is there much pain?

 

[Liveonce]

one assumes they are a limited company, if so the accounts are public online at companies house.

Good luck in your purchase.

 

[VSS]

one assumes they are a limited company, if so the accounts are public online at companies house.

Or a partnership.
In which their accounts are not public online at companies house.

 

[Lateral]

Collectively you lot have an answer for any and everything thus the questions are.

What`s it worth?
How much does it cost to run per year? IE Internet hosting etc.
Are there any shekels left at the end of the year?
Does one have to reside in the UK to own?

Is there much pain?

Companies are often sold with a sale price based on a multiple of one years net profits. The multiple will depend on the type of business, and how the financials look overall.

For example, company owners may specifically make efforts to inflate the net profit, by paying themselves very little, because they have other interests, hoping for a higher sale price. But a new owner will also have to work for nothing, or employ people. Or, you could find that a company is being run really inefficiently, or where the owner/owners pay themselves most of the profits each year. Or where a potential buyer may realize they can greatly increase the profit, and pay a higher multiple.

The bottom line, is doing your due diligence, and inspecting the "books", to see how a company has performed over the last five years.

Good luck, it would be far better for an enthusiast to take TSD over, rather than one of the companies who will just introduce more charges, and bombard the site with advertising !

 

[Ronin]

You’re better speaking to the seller and asking for breakdown of costs

Web forums cost about 130 usd a month to run from invision or similar

Turn over and profit are two different things

Suspect the cost in the region of several tens of thousands per vendor dependant on share

The site is very good and has a decent following but it isn’t Sniper Hide that makes a very good earning for its owner

The only earnings will be from advertising and trade membership (at the moment) folk won’t take kindly to having to pay to be a member or contribute I think unless there was quite a bit more interactive content (videos etc )

Suspect it would take someone with deep pockets to aquire and hopefully continue to run in a similar manner as those before have done

 

[Dickie]

Another foreigner wanting another British institution soon they'll be nothing left.

 

[Mach IV]

As long as he doesn't do what Macquarie Investments did to Thames water it will be fine!!!

 

[John Gryphon]

Another foreigner wanting another British institution soon they'll be nothing left.

Wanting? Expressing interest,my missus would like it she said because she reckons there are lots of silly old sheilas on here ha ha.

As long as he doesn't do what Macquarie Investments did to Thames water it will be fine!!!

What **** in the water?

 

[Mike1979]

Wanting? Expressing interest,my missus would like it she said because she reckons there are lots of silly old sheilas on here ha ha.


What **** in the water?

They didnt quite poop in the water...just legally bankrupted them ready for a bail out...much like Welsh Water "not for profit" my arse...more "we were bailed out by you and wont ever pay back our debts"

 

[Liveonce]

Elon Musk will be along soon to make an offer

 

[Klenchblaize]

Plenty of headroom for an increase in the number of monthly prize draw participants!

K

 

[NewForester]

Collectively you lot have an answer for any and everything thus the questions are.

What`s it worth?
How much does it cost to run per year? IE Internet hosting etc.
Are there any shekels left at the end of the year?
Does one have to reside in the UK to own?

Is there much pain?

Go for it John!

It is the site for deer stalking in the UK, and you could probably expand that to Aus and NZ.

Niche marketing is the thing today. If deer staking manufacturers want to get to the deer stalking community, this is the medium. Shows are getting harder to justify. The Gamefair in the UK is a shadow of what it was when it was sponsored by CLA.

 

[John Gryphon]

Shows are getting harder to justify.

As are all magazines.IE why in the **** would the average punter want to pay for paper when he/she can get it online for free?

 

[bullet chucker]

Hope the 'Pigeon look' don't get it?

BC.

 

[John Gryphon]

Hope the 'Pigeon look' don't get it?

BC.

¿Qué?

 

[Bonzo dog]

¿Qué?

I think he is referring to the guy who runs pigeon watch...he has a reputation of running it like a bit like a dictatorship, apparently.....

 

[John Gryphon]

I think he is referring to the guy who runs pigeon watch...he has a reputation of running it like a bit like a dictatorship, apparently.....

Ah ha!

 

[Jim Hutton]

one assumes they are a limited company, if so the accounts are public online at companies house.

Good luck in your purchase.

I checked Companies House and it doesn't appear to be a limited company unless it trades as The Stalking Directory under another limited company name but I can't find anything on this site to suggest that it is.

 

[Jim Hutton]

Or a partnership.
In which their accounts are not public online at companies house.

Anyone can be a partner in a partnership irrespective of their abode in the world.

 

[Jim Hutton]

Equally anyone can set up a UK limited company irrespective of where they live in the world. I would always want to operate any business as a limited company to limit my liability in the event of any problems that might arise.