Impending sale for jkOnTheRun
The big news this week is the impending sale of tech site Ars Technica to Conde Nast for $25 million. Ars has been one of the top tech sites for years and it’s great to see a big company put so much value on what they do. That said, we are happy to announce that we are on the table for a potential sale too. Thinking about this big sale has led us to realize that we hold a ton of value to a potential suitor and we’re ready to kick off that process. We bring a lot of value to the table and we’re ready to entertain offers from anybody.
Why should suitors be interested? To start with a buyer of jkOnTheRun will get a top tech site that has been a CNET Top 100 Tech Blog for several years. Given the big sale of CNET this week I guess you could say that we’re considered one of the best Tech sites by CBS, and that’s got some real street cred. A buyer of jkOTR also gets Kevin C. Tofel and James Kendrick, two of the best-looking geeks in the tech world on top of being two of the best writers on the tech beat today. Just compare photos of either one with a photo of Walt Mossberg and you’ll see the value in that statement. With wit and talent the writing team of jkOTR cover all areas of the technology sector and are read by many daily. Why just today the writings of the two are on the front page of both Engadget and Gizmodo, two other tech sites you may have heard of.
So what is jkOnTheRun worth? We’re thinking in the neighborhood of $10 million. After all you get what you pay for and you’re paying for the best. Well second best if you consider the pricing of the Ars Technica deal. But for any serious prospective buyers there is a special deal starting today:
What a deal! We’ll throw in jkOnTheRun coffee mugs and mouse pads too! So don’t delay, get your offer in via email to James Kendrick by clicking on his cartoon head (also included) in the right sidebar. He’ll make sure that Kevin gets his half, honest.
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With the amount of tech gear you NEED to buy, don’t you think $15M would be a more appropriate price…
Hey, we don’t want to be greedy about this.
Wonderful. Wonderful!
Two mil used to be an unspeakable pile of cash, but if you had only offered this deal one year ago, I’m sure that I could have found ready subprime home-equity financing for the purchase.
But does the purchase allow the purchaser to get his/her hands on all the goodies that circulate thru the JKOTR empire…at least for a couple of days?
You seem to be a lot readier to deal than Yahoo, so maybe Microsoft will zoom in.
GOOD LUCK!!
Any purchaser putting up $2M or more certainly gets the use of any gear we handle. Heck, they’ll get our kids indentured servitude for that kind of money.
awesome, so i guess the next logical question is do you all have any hot daughters?
I tried clicking on the purchase link above several times but was never directed to a checkout option where I could process my payment and complete the transaction. Upon further review, I realized that the image shown in your post probably came from a screenshot of an Ebay auction, but despite several minutes of trying well thought out queries on Ebay, I was unable to find your auction.
What gives? Are you trying to defraud the investing public?
I for one had already repositioned my assets in preparation for this acquisition. Moreover, I was another party in contention for the Ars sale, but when I learned that your site would be made available I decided to focus my efforts here instead. Thus, in addition to suffering at the hands of your fraudulent sale, you have also cost me damages in the the form of lost opportunity.
All the mouse pads in the well cannot pacify my fury.
I certainly hope that this is not some sort of prank. As a non-native speaker, I am not always aware of your cultural cues and would neither find this funny nor fair. (Don’t get me wrong, English is my first language, I just mean that I wasn’t able not natively able to speak it. It took me several years to develop fluency.)
I’ll trade you a six month old Eee Pc and a slightly used Nintendo Wii. I’m pretty firm on this offer, though, I may be swayed if you’re willing to throw in some cash.
What do you say? Do we have a deal. I’ll give you a couple of days to think it over.
If I use ‘Buy it Now’ today, can you please send me your site to my sister’s apartment in New Jersey, as I’m in Nigeria and cannot leave right now.
Please send me your bank account info so that I can transfer the $2M to your account.
Thanks!
Yeah.. right. Okay, two technology writers, both with previous and in one case still existing high-profile careers, began a tech blog, funding it heavily out of their own cash, partly to escape from the inpersonal corporate world where all that counts is hard cash.. and those two writers are ready to cash-out and make a few million dollars in the process?
Come on people, this is a hoax if ever there was one.
I’ll take it but you’ll both have to move to Australia.