Filedefend.com is payng or no?

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Dear Affiliates,

REF: AFFILIATE PAYMENTS

Please note that due to a problem with paypal & payza, our payments could not be completed. We are looking into this matter with urgency to get it fixed as soon as possible. However please note that all your payments will be sent. This delay does not mean that you will not be paid, there's just been a delay due to the error that occurred. We apologize for any inconvenience caused to you.

Thanking you,


Affiliate Dept
www.filedefend.com
 
Please note that due to a problem with paypal & payza, our payments could not be completed. We are looking into this matter with urgency to get it fixed as soon as possible. However please note that all your payments will be sent. This delay does not mean that you will not be paid, there's just been a delay due to the error that occurred. We apologize for any inconvenience caused to you.

@ from filedefend
 
Dear Affiliates,

REF: AFFILIATE PAYMENTS

Please note that due to a problem with paypal & payza, our payments could not be completed. We are looking into this matter with urgency to get it fixed as soon as possible. However please note that all your payments will be sent. This delay does not mean that you will not be paid, there's just been a delay due to the error that occurred. We apologize for any inconvenience caused to you.

Thanking you,


Affiliate Dept
www.filedefend.com
 
"Dear Affiliates,
We sincerely apologize for the delay in making payments on Tuesday. Our paypal account is currently under pre approval and will be active again in a few days. Our Payza account is also being verified. I do apologize for this incident to all of you. However please not that we have been verified by MoneyBookers and are clearing payments through them for this week. So If you have a MoneyBookers account, please change your details in your payment settings so you can be paid. This is just temporary for this week, until paypal clears us.

Thank you for your cooperation

Warm Regards,

Affiliate Dept
www.filedefend.com"

Lets wait and see.
 
http://filedefend.com on sold at flippa

http://flippingethics.com/2012/07-10/filedefend-com-being-sold-by-toby-t-on-flippa.html

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FileDefend.com
The fastest growing file sharing site in history...
and before you even finish reading this auction you will know exactly why we can make this type of claim.
Our last auction saw hundreds of offers and bids up for the prize of FileVelocity.com and ended up finishing for an impressive $50,000. We were glad to get our free time back to live life and relax. Now after a short hiatus we have returned here to finish where we left off by building a website that looked better, performed better and made EVEN more money than anything we have ever built.
We have spent countless hours and $$$ over the last 3 months getting this website ready for launch. The aim was to launch a site and hit the ground running by churning out LARGE profits from DAY 1. What we established with FileVelocity took 35 days to get to this level... this time with FileDefend.. ONLY 5 DAYS!
Heard enough? Want to see some stats?
In ONLY 5 DAYS we have established:
Over 3000 Registered Users
Averaging over 80,000+ unique visitors per day everyday since launch
Generating nearly $3,000 dollars in 5 days (targetting 15k - 20k by end of month)
1.7 million pageviews+ in 5 days and still growing!
Expected to gross in excess of $12,000 in pure profit in it's opening month! (even more if another payment option is added)
FileDefend is built onto XFileSharing script, but has been completely customised to ensure the ultimate user experience. This has allowed for rapid growth and high level of sales. Our site is configured to encourage users to sign up for the premium service while still providing an exceptional service to free users. The site is fully manageable down to every aspect, and support will be provided to the new owner of the site from us to ensure the site continues to grow when you own it.

Statistics
From 4th of July 2012 - 9th of July 2012 (only 5 days)
Visits: 423,334
Unique Visitors: 326,779
Pageviews: 1,447,383
3.42 Pages/Visit
3:50 Avg. Time on Site
See attachments for full Analytics reports.
The attached documents which outline the traffic so far up to July 9, we will be posting additional new stats as they become available on the right hand side of the auction. If you require anything else, just send a PM.

Revenue Sources
We currently have two main revenue sources, advertising revenue and product sales.
We anticipate that on-going the site will generate increasing revenue and profit each month as more users and more affiliates join the program every day.
Sales revenue for the first two days was over $200 dollars. Unfortunately we did not get pre-approved by PayPal and are unable to use the service until we do so. This can easily be resolved by implementing one of the many payment methods already built into the script or using any other for that matter. We have the contacts to provide to the new owner including multiple alternatives should you opt not to use PayPal. Due to our extensive experience with these types of websites we believe that you should be earning around $400+ per day from Premium sales when you implement a payment method.
Advertising revenue for July is anticipated to be over $12,000. We are already at $2,500 at the time of this auction after 5 days of running the site. Each day should be in excess of $500 per day and could be even higher if you try other ad networks or move the ads around. When implementing advertising we only added banners to three pages on the site and with minimal impact. These banners were from only one ad network. We believe that someone with more time could test and improve on the ad placements and possibly even implement an ad network within the website to generate even more money with very little effort.

Key On-Going Expenses

Server Costs - We built this website to handle the large number of uploaders and downloaders. We currently have 4 servers (1 Web Server and 3 File Servers) and are looking to implement even more. More servers mean more capacity for users to add thousands of new files daily and in turn increase your ad revenue and premium sales.
The current server cost on-going is only USD$2200 per month. The servers are currently at 10 percent used and due to the time limit of files you could operate this site without adding any more servers. More servers however mean more capacity so keep this in mind when you want to make the site bigger.

We have a direct access to an account manager with the hosting provider, they will deliver custom deals for us and will continue to for the new owners of the site.

We can also transition the hosting account to the new owner, helping to provide a smooth transition for the new owner and ensuring all services stay online.
Affiliate Payments - although an expense, the site is geared so that you are paying users with money earned, it is usually much less than half of what was generated by the affiliate. (eg. Affiliate earns $10, site received nearly $40 from ad revenue and sales). In February FileDefend affiliates have only earned just over $900 in the first few days. (Revenue for the site will be in excess of $13,000 for just Adrevenue.. so with sales you will be so far in front you can offer affiliates even more money (or simply keep the profits to grow the site further!))

Site Features
Upload 4 Methods to upload (Flash Upload, Browser Upload, Remote Upload, Xoom) Plugin developed for Xoom Uploader (very popular)
Support for Download Managers (Plugin developed for JDownloader)
3 Affiliate Models (Sales, Downloads, Hybrid 50/50).
Full file, user and payment management through the website no need to have technical knowledge
Ability to add News articles
Ability to email all users and premium users (already a huge mailing list of 3000+ double opt-in emails which is growing by 500+ per day!)
Fully customised My Account page to provide the latest stats and functions to users.
User reporting to show downloads and earnings
Admin reporting to track new users, uploads, downloads, bandwidth used and payments.
Any additional modifications are possible and can be developed at a low cost (will provide contacts to have this completed and implemented to new owner)
Financials for July 2012 (in 5 days)
Advertising Revenue - $2400 (averaging 500+ per day now and growing)
Sales Revenue: $290 (note premium sales were paused at the start of the second day of operation - pre-approval from PayPal required)

Total Costs on-going: $2,200 per month + ~4000 per month in Affiliate costs (could be way less or even slightly more just depends on how the new owner manages the affiliate system).
With 25 days left of the month, we anticipate around 12.5k of revenue minimum. (the sooner the new owner takes over... the more cash in your pockets)
From the above information you can see that the daily revenue from this site is breaking over 500 a day at this point and is rising. By adding a payment option or getting pre-approved for PayPal you will be able to make nearly double (without a doubt).
For the most up to date revenue statistics and profits please check attachments on the right hand side of this page or PM us for further details.

On-going tasks
Implement new servers as required (we outsource all of this (very cheap) and we will provide all of the required contacts to do this)
Manage emails and other communication methods. We receive ~20 - 25 emails per day and we do them ourselves in most cases. We implemented a fully integrated Ticket System and honestly.. it is the best thing we ever did. Managing emails is normally a pain and timely but now it takes only a few minutes :)
Why we are selling?
We are a team of two of people with full time jobs as well as a range of other websites and Internet marketing ventures. This site has exploded to a size that really requires a full time individual or team to take it to the next level. We would like to pass the batonso to speak, and hand the website over to a committed individual who can continue with the expansion and success of the website.
New Features
There have been new features requested by users and we have had some of them priced, all features are completely possible and are up to the new owner to decide whether to implement them or not. We would have implemented them if we had the time. It is a guarantee with these features, the site would likely double or triple in size.
What will the new owner receive?
Established - fast growing, high revenue and high profit website
Domain (due for renewal in September). The new owner will be required to pay for the hosting moving forward. Which starts on August 1 but is due by 18th of July.
New active user base of over 3000 users and growing by upward of 500 per day.
Fully developed and manageable file sharing system
Handover of server hosting account and access to all file servers and website server.
Upgradeable and easily customisable script with full support from vendor of script
14 days on-going support (negotiable) from us to help you use and make this site continue growing

We want the bidders of this auction to be 100% comfortable with all of the information provided, if you have any questions or would like any further detail, please send us a PM. We will respond as fast as we can to any enquiries.
PAYMENT & TRANSFER
Payment via Escrow or Wire Transfer with multiple milestones:
- 70% fund released upon transfer of ownership of hosting account (files and database all inside)
- 30% fund released upon domain name received
- 100% fee paid by buyer
- Buyer to initiate payment within 12 hours of winning auction

If you wish to offer a Buy It Now price, please contact us.
 
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