Should I buy a website off a seller on eBay who sounds trustworthy?

[Jojo]

I need a way to earn money online as i am short of it and there are dozens of websites i can purchase on eBay that do everything automatically. This is what it says

EVERYTHING is all automated, from taking payments (via paypal) to send out the customer their software and serial number, you do not have to do anything for the website apart from advertising (if you want to). In fact we have been doing quite a big advertising campaign recently and the new owner will not need to do anything for months..

I dont want to waste £200 on it so can i trust the feedback from cheap products and that paypal will get me my money??
Its some parental software. He said he will send me proof of income and he doesnt keep them. All he does is start them up and sell them. The selling of them is where he earns his money

[Noshers Ballsack]

If it was all automatic and making money they wouldn't be selling it for £200 would they? Besides, it sounds illegal, whats the software?

[Jess]

Hello I am contacting you because recently eBay told me I couldn't sell on eBay anymore and they couldn't give me a real reason on why it really upset me because I use it as a second income in the past few months they have raised their selling fees and they take a huge chunk out of what you get when you sell an item so I said the heck with them I looked online and found http://www.bonanza.com for your selling thank you for your time please spread the word so we can get a lot of people to go on the site I would love to see this company grow

thank you
Jessica s

[Who]

Ask yourself this

If everything is automated and he is making profits why the f//k would he want to sell his website to anybody? (for £200 !!!!!!!!!)
Why dont he just sit back and watch the cash roll in?

If you can think of a good answer to this then you are cleverer than me.

(and he can send you anything you like (I assume via e-mail) how do you know they are true and correct? How would you you know they aint just a load of fiction?)

[marcus]

Don't buy a website unless your able to visit it and view it's stats yourself. As a web developer I suggest you get the url and check it out yourself. Also do a Whois to find out who owns it and get a website site stats and ranking report.

[Richard]

too good to be true. i guess.

[b]

Think about what you have said

"The selling of them is where he earns his money"

If they were as good as he says, why not keep it to himself?