Via ProBargainHunter, Trezr, a US-based bargain sharing website that I reviewed in September last year, was sold on eBay for $30,100.01 with only 4,000 visitors and 7,500 page views a month but runs on a $79/month dedicated server.

As I have already commented on Yan’s blog, 4k visitors a month is less than 135 visitors a day average, which is pathetic. If the site is sold through places like SitePoint Marketplace, where many people take 12 month revenue as price guideline, $30k means it can bring in $2,500 a month for the owner. At 4k visitors average per month, I do not think so.

It also answered a question I had when I first reviewed this site 10 months ago. I said, in comparison to dealplumber,

On the other hand, Trezr.com forbids people from posting affiliation links. They need to link directly to the product page. It actually generated quality links, instead of few selected users spamming the entire site.

It turns out that the real reason they do not want users to submit affiliation links is — they can put in their own affiliation code! From the eBay description:

Trezr was one of the first “Web 2.0” social shopping platforms, and the first (and potentially only) platform of its kind to automatically monetize outbound traffic to retailers. The site generates revenue each time a user makes a purchase that originated on Trezr, even though all our content is submitted by users.

Writing an URL transformer to convert a product URL to an affiliation link is actually very easy, so I do not think it is of any real innovation. Definitely not the best $30k you have spent.

If you actually follow the comments in the TechCrunch coverage, you’ll notice that there are simply too many bargain sharing sites around. One might disappear today and you can be sure that three others will arise tomorrow, as the cost of entrance is just way too low. Download Pligg CMS, hire someone from India through Elance, spend the rest on marketing — and you too can have your own Trezr.com for way less than $30k.

Maybe we’ll have more bargain hunting sites than the actual bargains one day…