[moderator ]Re: Off Topic: selling a product line

FROM : Scott Anguish
DATE : Thu May 08 06:47:08 2008

Yes, this is entirely off-topic.

anytime you feel you need to put 'offtopic' in the subject, you 
shouldn't post it here.

others have pointed you to other resources.

scott
moderator


On May 7, 2008, at 8:31 PM, Kimo wrote:

> This is not the usual development question, but this list probably 
> has the best people to answer.
> Suppose you wrote a cool Mac product, and it's been selling well as 
> shareware for years.  Then a larger software development company 
> contacts you and says they want to purchase the entire product 
> outright, source and all, for a lump sum, no royalties.  And they 
> ask "what do you want for it?" How would you ever determine the 
> price?  Some people have said to estimate at what it brings in over 
> 1 or 2 years.  Others have said that it shouldn't be a price more 
> than it would cost the company to develop the product themselves 
> from scratch.  Is there a standard method for determining the cost 
> of a product, possibly similar to appraising the price of a house 
> before you sell it?
>