On: Ask HN: Company wants to aquire my website. Can you give me some advice?

[danielrhodes]

This is true. As a rule of thumb, just assume that you aren't getting the performance bonuses and then see how sweet the deal sounds.

By the way, this sounds like a very familiar offer. Is the company LiveUniverse?

[ericb → danielrhodes]

Funny, I got a terrible offer from eUniverse, the predecessor to LiveUniverse. Maybe that's their schtick?

They wanted to resell my $20 shareware program (a pop-up blocker before pop-up blocking became just a feature). Their first offer was something like 25 cents a copy for each sale over a certain number and $1,500 dollars up front. I stopped returning their emails shortly thereafter.