Closing a site

[topclass]

What’s the protocol for dealing with members on a site you are just about to terminate? I have both monthly members subscribers and fixed, 12 months the longest.

The site has become too demanding, I guess I can just leave it but don’t want to mess up my reputation.

Does anyone have any experience with this?

Thanks in advance

[Rosie]

First thing, close your join page to new members and cancel any rebills. The keep updating the site for at least 30 days in order to give monthly members their value for money. For long term memberships I would be inclined to refund them an appropriate proportion of their membership fees from when you stop updating.

Another alternative would be to leave the site online and change to non recurring memberships, making it very clear that the site no longer updates and functions purely as an archive.

[NumptyNuts]

just pull the plug seems to be what happens, for ever finding dead links from sites that have gone offline.

[dvtimes]

Why not just sell the site.

This way you make some cash, and mebers do not loose out.

[UKSexCash]

What site is it and why are you closing it? Can't you sell it on?

[onlytease]

as others say, look to sell the site as a going concern.

however, i would be interested to see how you would value a site? if it has exclusive content then how do you place a value on that in addition to the members / rebills etc?

[topclass]

Thanks for the responses, appreciate it.

I don’t actually want to sell it as I might fire it up later. However I am also interested in how sites are valued more for interests sake (and retirement)

The site isn’t really a gallery site guess it would fall into the “contacts” category so unique content but the most valuable part is the database. Got to say it largely runs itself but I just need a holiday from the wingers and moaners as I’m bored with it and them.

Yeah stopping new payments and killing rebills is a good place to start.