You Really Can Find Everything on eBay
Om Malik pointed me to the “first” of what will soon be many Facebook applications for sale on eBay. Logbook, is a new and fully functional Facebook application that allows Facebook users to document movies, music, books, and more. The site looks to monetize its user base through integration with the Amazon.com affiliate program - smart move. With a little over 100 users, Logbook certainly is new and is not a high profile application, but is interesting to see the Facebook economy evolve from one of making cool applications to show your skills, to making applications to get lots of users to sell for lots of money, to creating and application and immediately selling it.
Right now the bidding for this application is at $591.64, putting the price per user at almost $60 (if you use that metric). Undoubtedly, most folks are buying this based on future earnings or sale potential, not on a per user basis, but this is yet another sign that the Facebook buzz is a strong as ever.
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www.applicationcreations.com has a link on it to sell prebuilt applications.
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This app just sold for a whopping $2,550! What’s interesting is the application only has an estimated 120 users or so, which means this seller got $21.25 per user!
There were 3,047 views of the auction as well. It will be interesting to monitor sales prices of Facebook applications on eBay over time to see what apps fetch per user for different niches. I suspect we will begin to see “made for sale” Facebook applications in the near future, even businesses with this as their primary revenue source (as Scott pointed out above).
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