A Little Cup of Cyanide

My sister is into this whole working at home thing. First she started doing At Home America. Basically what they do is sell home stuff. She's only sold about $30 worth of stuff, and that was to my parents. It obviously wasn't working out. She had these parties at her house, kind of like tupperwear parties. But no one ever showed up. So, now she's trying to do domain name resales. Oh boy. They make this stuff sound so easy. Just buy a cheap domain, then sell it for twice what you paid for it. Right. Two problems.

1: You have no idea if the site you sell is going to be wanted by anyone. It doesn't matter how cheap you're selling it for, if nobody wants that domain, nobody will buy it.

2: Even if someone would buy it, how do they find out you're selling it? Unless someone searches for that specific domain, they won't know it's for sale. So let's say you're selling whatever.com. There might be somebody who would really love that domain. But if they don't know it's for sale, how do they find it?

Anyway, she found this site http://www.leapfish.com. It gives you an estimate of how much a domain is worth. I was bored as usual, so I was looking at it. I've been thinking about getting a domain for my website, probably wan-pirate.com. So I looked it up, it's about $26. Out of curiosity I checked wanpirate too, which ended up being $40. Amazing. A little dash is worth $14.