NBSdesignz For Sale.

[M3NF]

NBSdesignz has been running for coming up to 3 years now and is well established in it's market. We can proudly say we hold the largest collection of forum styles. It has a growing hosting demand and a large quantity of professional forum skins and web applications. Starting with Invisionboard skinning, we have recently begun tapping into the vBulletin market and are steadily becoming well known for styles for vBulletin aswell.<br />
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NBS has been catering for the free community with low prices to allow availability to all regardless of their bank balance, and has a large potential should the new owner decide to run it as a professional website. Even with the low prices, it's had an increasing cash flow which could easily become a large profit if prices were altered to a more accurate level for the products worth.<br />
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<b>Bidding is <span style='color:red'>currently at $2956(£1700) or Buy it Now: $5000(£2875)</span>, as shown on http://forums.nbsdesignz.com. This will be updated on all sites that the sale is advertised. If you have any queries, don't hesitate to ask. Bidding will end 4th August 2005</b>.
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Some statistics showing our popularity and styles collection:<br />
<div style='background-color: #f6f6f6;width: 95%;border:1px solid #cccccc'>
<div style='background:#eee'>Last Month</div>
Hits of 2,391,030 to our site.<br />
An Average of 3213 hits an hour and a max of 11407<br />
<div style='background:#eee'>Past 11 Months:</div>
218,608 Unique Hits.<br />
33,376,632 Overall Hits</div><br />

Sales statistics (based on no advertising of our services, purely word of mouth):
<div style='background-color: #f6f6f6;width: 95%;border:1px solid #cccccc'><a href='http://www.nbsdesignz.com/sales.html' style='color:#F90'>Here is a list of sales from skins and scripts for a period of 1 year</a><br />
<a href='http://www.nbsdesignz.com/hosting.html' style='color:#F90'>Here is a list of web hosting clients and the revenue it brings</a><br />
Adsense currently at $93<br />
New paid subscription area, 2 customers, $175(£100) yearly income<br />
NBS Advertising, 10 customers, $140(£80) yearly income<br />
<div style='background:#eee'>Hosting</div>
From the monthly accounts: $254(£145) - monthly income<br />
From the quarterly accounts: $178(£102) - quarterly income<br />
From the yearly accounts: $263(£150) - yearly income<br />
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There are 2 Dedicated servers at $300(£170) per month, one of which is virtually empty as it was only just purchased to meet the growing demand. You will have increased profit as you fill the 2nd server.<br />
Please also remember, the new server we have just purchased and moved a few accounts from the old server to the new one, leaving you almost 1500gig bandwidth per month and 80 gig of space to sell on with no additional cost. alternitively you could move the accounts back onto one server and same yourself the cost of the 2nd server. <br /><br />
You could (at current prices) make an additional $340(£195) per month in profit when you fill server 2.
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<div style='background:#eee'>Totals, this is for period 2004-2005 without advertising our services. </div>
$4311 (£2458) From hosting and advertising (Yearly income)<br />
$3069 (£1750) From Skin, script and subscriptions (Yearly income)<br />
$7380 (£4208) Yearly income TOTAL<br />
$613 (£350) Monthly income TOTAL<br />
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Domain names:<br />
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- nbsdesignz.com - Expires:03-11-2010 <br />
- nbs-blogs.com - Expires:05-31-2007<br />
- nbs-ads.com - Expires:01-21-2006<br />
- nbs-mods.com - Expires:11-23-2009<br />
- nbs-toplist.com - Expires:10-19-2006<br />
- nbsdesignz.co.uk - Expires:13-03-2007<br />
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With the sale of the business, you will get full ownership with all rights to all our paid items currently charged at £1 for branded version (with the nbsdesignz logo at the bottom linking back to the site) or £5 unbranded (without the afore mentioned logo).<br />
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<div style='background:#eee'>NBS web applications:</div>
- NBS Toplist<br />
- NBS Ads<br />
- NBS Blogs<br />
<div style='background:#eee'>vBulletin pro skins:</div>
- VBX<br />
- NightFiber<br />
- NBS Snow<br />
- FireFiber<br />
<div style='background:#eee'>Invisionboard pro skins (version 2):</div>
- IBX3 Panther<br />
- NightFiber<br />
- FireFiber<br />
- NBS Snow<br />
<div style='background:#eee'>Invisionboard pro skins (version 1.3):</div>
- IBX2<br />
- NightFiber<br />
- FireFiber<br />
- Secret Garden<br />
<div style='background:#eee'>Invisionboard pro skins (version 1.2):</div>
- IBX2<br />
<div style='background:#eee'>Invisionboard pro skins (version 1.1):</div>
- IBX<br />
- Pearl Shadows</div><br />

In addition to ownership of all nbs free skins, you will own:<br />
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- NBSdesignz Website<br />
- Hosting business (2 servers) supported by the datacentre technicians.<br />
- Webhosting flash tutorials<br />
- Auto host script<br />
- Linklok IPN Paypal payment system<br />
- invisionfree script license (runs phpfree system)<br />
- All psd's for NBS (website, skins, web graphics)<br />
- NBS Graphics database (you will only own work done by nbsdesignz)<br />
- 100's professional flash and html web templates<br />
- NBSdesignz paypal account<br />
- Database script - unbranded with upgrade to vb 3.5 owned by nbs paid over $260(£148)<br />
- Lifetime vBulletin license with unbranding paid $280(£160) - upgrade access expires 3rd October<br />
- <a href='ircxpro.com'>IRCXpro</a> IRC Server program for windows with an enterprise license, was used for live support and communication with NBS customers/staff. worth $530(£300)</div><br />
We have currently in our databases .....<br />
<div style='background-color: #f6f6f6;width: 95%;border:1px solid #cccccc'>
Styles For vBulletin Forum Software. 41<br />
Styles For Invision Power Board Forum Software. 352<br />
Styles For phpBB Forum Software. 37<br />
Styles For WebTricksCentral BB Forum Software. 16<br />
Styles For Ikonboard Forum Software. 16<br />
Styles For Open Bulletin Board Forum Software. 6<br />
Styles For Ultimate Php Board Forum Software. 12<br />
Images For Use On Forums And Websites. 166<br />
Web Templates. 166<br />
Ebay Templates. 528<br />
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Total Database files = 1340.</div>
We are unable to provide a total download count due to the new database system being put online ready for the sale.
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We are the official myupb Styles Site.<br />
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There is a large forum full of support tips, and a friendly team should you chose to keep them on.<br /><br />
There are currently a number of competitions that we would like you to honour, prizes you give away are a few skins and small hosting accounts, if you need more details of this please ask.

Other listing are at.....

http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?t=283555
http://www.theadminzone.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12283
We resurve the right to width draw the sale at any time due to listings else where.

[Aristia]

We've had a bid now of £1700 ($2,981)

We will be issuing a full list detailing what comes with nbsdesignz. The winning bidder will get the entire company, domains, hosting ownership, skin/script ownerships and psd's to everything. As i say, this will be detailed later today.

[MikeC]

when will bidding end?

[Aristia]

We're looking at 10 days from now but that's not official as we're going to sort it out later tonight.

[Derek]

Oh well lol. I was gonna bid, but now it's out of my price range lol.

[austinh]

Dang that is a lot of cash...I wish i could bid more but i cant :(

[Aristia]

there's always joint ownership ;)

[Derek]

Lol Thats more then Austin and I have together lol.

[nightfox_pc_asst]

This is a sad day....I am worried about the hosting accounts...Will the new owner keep the current pricing or raise them higher than what most can afford, and what type of hostings will they offer?? So many questions.

Gotta run for now...Thinking on this.

NF

[M3NF]

Post Updated to show figures.

[M3NF]

Update, possible end to sale, We have an offer on the Buy It Now. Shall update when more details come back, can say thou to all our members/customers, he sounds a great person, and his email to moved us, and impressed us saying
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We already have a wealth of experience running forums and have a very popular computer forum already running so I feel we could look after your current customers very well indeed.

So i feel he is worthy of NBS to look out for our customers. :)

Update.....

Well we spoken for a while now via email and he seams a real nice guy, someone who knows how to treat customers and members, and this is great to hear, we have invited him round to meet us in person as he lives local to us, so it be even better. I would like to say that we will be staying around thou to help out, and help the new owner (if final purchase made).

The better news is he wants the same as us, and will move NBSdesignz into more of a better heading with more staff as well as even faster support. So there will be even more so a better service coming.

[Kahula]

Not sure if this is appropriate here or not.

As you are now sold are we that have your skins still allowed to use them or what?
Problems do we or can we still come here to sort them out to?
Does the new owner inherit us or do we have to rejoin?
Paying for the branding to be took off, is that still open?

Sorry I am just a little confused by this and what it means.

[Derek]

Not sure if this is appropriate here or not.

As you are now sold are we that have your skins still allowed to use them or what?
Problems do we or can we still come here to sort them out to?
Does the new owner inherit us or do we have to rejoin?
Paying for the branding to be took off, is that still open?

Sorry I am just a little confused by this and what it means.

Yes, if you have purchased a skin, you are still entitled to use it. Not sure what you mean by sort them out, can you please explain more? I think the new owner is just going to keep this forum, so you won't have to rejoin. I also think you can still pay for unbranding.

Hope this helps...

Derek

[Kahula]

Sort = means fix if there is problem or bug. Not enough coffee this morning to make my keyboard function coherently.

What of the free skins etc?

[wimpie]

the "old" owners of nbs wil still be around here to help with issues with the paid skins, and the free skins, just check the database, if you worried, get the ones you like ;)

[Lexx]

I must say, I've taken to systematically downloading the free databases the last few days; I've always said that Mat and Stella are far too generous, and I'm getting what I can until the new owners arrive :p.

I'm glad that you've found someone whom you think will carry on in the same vein as you have and strive to make NBS bigger and better. I still think that the pair of you will be irreplaceable as the driving force behind the scenes, but priorities are a must and as a result NBS shall move on under a different lead, but hopefully not too differently.

I hope the sale goes through okay; if the new owners are to be even half as generous, supportive and friendly as you have been, we know that we'll be in safe hands.

NBS is all grown up, and there's no doubt that it's done you proud.

Good luck in the future,

[Aristia]

lol :) yep everything stays the same just with new ownership. I believe prices are going to change, but not for current customers. Skins already paid for will still get support and your rights to use them are unaffected.

We're sticking around in the background for the new owner to get a handle on the nbs system and support. He can send us an email if he doesn't know an answer to a support question. M3NF stayed on as admin still so he can help the tansition go smoothly. :)

[foxed]

Congratulations on the sale, I've known you both for some time now - and remember you both buzzing around the iKonboard skin forums when everyone else left it for dead. You have both done a fantastic job on this site and Im proud to be a customer and friend!

[Will78]

I think I shall Close this since its sold