[royce]

You are hereby invited to tender for the Purchase of Auszookers.com and all related resources.
This invitation is open to all Individuals, Groups and Businesses.
We reserve the right to not accept any Tender from any bidder, no Tender will be automatically awarded based on highest price or any other condition. We also reserve the right to abandon this Invitation To Tender at any time.

Your full and final Tender is required by 30/07/2013.

Submissions and Clarifications to be made in writing to Tender@Auszookers.com

Assets you are Tendering for
Domain name auszookers.com
Database
Associated files for the operation of the service as much as copywrite law allows (in regards to user photographs, IP of posts etc)
Merchandise (hats and stickers)


Hosting platform
Current Specs
VPS consisting of 50gb space, 500gb transfer, 3 cores, 2gb memory.
Backups to Amazon S3
Unmanaged, all maintenance performed by us, usually poorly with a lot of help from Google
Advise what your planned solution will be, list hosts, plans, prices, specs, plans to prevent outages and preserve the data, backups etc

Governance
Currently All decisions made by Steve and Royce, those are final.

How do you plan to run, the same, by comitee etc

Moderation
Currently very little moderation performed, mainly cleaning and admin functions, it is very important to us that people are allowed to voice their opinion fairly and openly and moderation not used to block this opinion
Advise your planned moderation style and plan to keep the content running smoothly

Improvements
What will you do to further improve auszookers?

Income
Current income via google adwords and merchandise sales
Income levels cover hosting costs with a small amount left over for donation
Excess to costs funds used for Worthy causes, EG lifestraw. No income goes to anybody for any other reasons (IE no profit is drawn)
Advise your planned income methods and plans for this income if any.

Compensation
Auszookers has built up a large value from years of exposure and is the single largest Suzuki 4x4 site in Australia and well known amongst all 4x4 enthusiasts in Australia and Suzuki 4x4 Enthusiasts world wide.
What is your financial offer for assets and goodwill.

Continuing the vision of AZ
AZ is an open place for the discussion of Suzuki 4wd topics, as well as a social place for likeminded people to converse.
What do you intend the future vision of AZ to be

Conditions
What conditions might you place apon any person in order to take over ownership of auszookers.com?

[atari4x4]

needs a price mate


any chance you could PM me a rough figure so i don't insult you or steve with a lowball offer?

[royce]

Its a tender, submit your offer to the email.

Just a dollar figure might not be enough to get you across the line, there are a lot of points up there to clarify

[Scrawny]

I'm really not surprised by this, it was only a matter of time. It'll be interesting to see what changes are in the future

[buzbox]

Perhaps the cost could be divided into quarter's and responsibilities shared by different parties.

Personally I think we need to return it to how it was a year ago.

[31zook]

If someone I can do the 'keeping AZ online and fixing bugs' I can do the people side. I've been modatator for the last 2-3years, so if it's not all new to me.

Pm me if interested.

[britvit]

atari4x4 wrote:

needs a price mate


any chance you could PM me a rough figure so i don't insult you or steve with a lowball offer?

Hey Gus, happy to help out any way I can f you are serious about this......might even be tempted to lob in a few $$ to keep this place going. Heading to the funny farm at the weekend so should have one of those wheels for you to try if you like next week.
Cheers Sid

[atari4x4]

the $$$'s are the easy bit at the moment.

[royce]

OK a few clarifications, anything asked by anyone will be shared with all people interested, so that things are kept fair and clear

How much time you spend on the place is up to you, just to keep it running from a technical perspective takes very little as long as its stable, there have been a few times ive spent a lot of hours fixing something and moving hosts and doing upgrades can take up a weekend with no trouble. You might expect if you want to add things in and make improvements then the sky is the limit

How you run the place is up to you to propose, if you want to pay somebody to look after things then state that, we may want to see you've looked into it and have an idea of costs, some hosts may even offer an assistance service

I personally am not looking to be committed to anything with the site, IE maintenance work etc, I don't think I am suddenly going to stop visiting though so may consider some kind of role in the place.

Us teaching anyone may be bad as we probably aren't doing things correctly to begin with, but some kind of handover period would be advisable

If your intention is to turn a profit, say so, but good luck with thinking you'll be rich





The way something like this works is its not a test, there isn't really a right answer that means you win, you work out what you'll do (based loosely around the criteria listed above) and we will consider all submissions and then likely come back to you with some questions about things and at the end might say we like everything you've done but we don't think your proposed host is good enough, can you have a look at that.

Some people are talking about getting a group together, I think this is great if you can end up with a decent spread of skills that covers everything and has scope for improvement, keep in mind with enough organisation the sky is the limit, there is no reason this place couldn't be a successful multi make 4wd forum or site that pretty much swallows all Suzuki specific websites in the country.

This isn't a Trademark Royce has spat the dummy again and is going to turn it off thread, if we think nobody has a decent offer, we keep going and work with it till we do.

[Daz7]

royce wrote:

site that pretty much swallows all Suzuki specific websites in the country.

As I've already suggested. Would be keen to see something along these lines with all of the clubs involved in it too - something like an Australian Suzuki Portal.

I'd be happy to discuss this aspect with anyone interested.

[96coily]

Just how open to scrutiny do the tenders have to be?
... it's just the Rosicrucians were curious

[atari4x4]

I heard it's been sold already and it's gone offshore to a company called Chinazuki4x4 Pty Ltd

[joel]

emg purchased it,

[royce]

joel wrote:

emg purchased it,

Have you been reading my pm's?

Whats going to happen is you'll have to buy post credits from tigerz11 and enter the code to keep posting, but it looks like youll be able to buy moderator passes and stuff as well, pay per ban and so on

[Matthew]

Quick, delete anything negative ever posted about EMG!

[mrw82]

Matthew wrote:

Quick, delete anything negative ever posted about EMG!

Don't worry, EMG will delete it all within about 30 seconds of taking over, then ban anyone who questions where those threads disappeared to...

[atari4x4]

Are these post credits Australian made or are they the cheap Chinese ones?

[joel]

royce wrote:

joel wrote:

emg purchased it,

Have you been reading my pm's?

Whats going to happen is you'll have to buy post credits from tigerz11 and enter the code to keep posting, but it looks like youll be able to buy moderator passes and stuff as well, pay per ban and so on

lol, the worst part is, is that would actually work, surprised 4wda havent already done it!

[Goldnomad]

Thanks but no thanks. I'll stick to world domination. It's lots easier

[Blakey]

atari4x4 wrote:

needs a price mate


any chance you could PM me a rough figure so i don't insult you or steve with a lowball offer?

http://www.valuesite.org/www/auszookers ... i6F7u.dpbs

[laurie]

Blakey wrote:

atari4x4 wrote:

needs a price mate


any chance you could PM me a rough figure so i don't insult you or steve with a lowball offer?

http://www.valuesite.org/www/auszookers ... i6F7u.dpbs

but wait theres more !
http://www.valuesite.org/www/auszookers ... i0jz9.dpbs
great valuation site this

[ball]

Blakey wrote:

atari4x4 wrote:

needs a price mate


any chance you could PM me a rough figure so i don't insult you or steve with a lowball offer?

http://www.valuesite.org/www/auszookers ... i6F7u.dpbs

not really a very accurate way to put a value on a website

[atari4x4]

i prefer laurie's link, auszookers.com.au is worth $ 8.95, steve might be able to buy one rumbo with that

[Blakey]

ball wrote:

Blakey wrote:

atari4x4 wrote:

needs a price mate


any chance you could PM me a rough figure so i don't insult you or steve with a lowball offer?

http://www.valuesite.org/www/auszookers ... i6F7u.dpbs

not really a very accurate way to put a value on a website

how else would one value a website if not for traffic and views and income?

[ball]

Blakey wrote:

ball wrote:

Blakey wrote:

atari4x4 wrote:

needs a price mate


any chance you could PM me a rough figure so i don't insult you or steve with a lowball offer?

http://www.valuesite.org/www/auszookers ... i6F7u.dpbs

not really a very accurate way to put a value on a website

how else would one value a website if not for traffic and views and income?

In this specific case traffic and income is irrelevant. It is the content which has value.

I would compare it in it's current form to a non profit organisation, not a money making business venture.

[royce]

Blakey wrote:

atari4x4 wrote:

needs a price mate


any chance you could PM me a rough figure so i don't insult you or steve with a lowball offer?

http://www.valuesite.org/www/auszookers ... i6F7u.dpbs

doesn't factor the forum being in a subfolder, the view figures are way off

[tonyevans]

I run a small Stamp collecting forum and it is in a sub-folder and has NO advertising allowed at all and that site says it's worth $21,600.00 so who knows what formulae they use - Like everything else - A website is worth what someone will pay for it I guess.

[ajsr]

royce wrote:

Blakey wrote:

atari4x4 wrote:

needs a price mate


any chance you could PM me a rough figure so i don't insult you or steve with a lowball offer?

http://www.valuesite.org/www/auszookers ... i6F7u.dpbs

doesn't factor the forum being in a subfolder, the view figures are way off

have you sold this turkey yet????

[mrw82]

Did anyone make good with the money bags? Or was it all just typical AZ dreamers.

[KEENSY85]

mrw82 wrote:

Did anyone make good with the money bags? Or was it all just typical AZ dreamers.

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