Property-bee.com relies on donatations from its users to pay for the hosting of the site on a dedicated server, which costs £100 each month and allow users to share information with each other.

The people who run and develop property-bee.com give their time for free and are unpaid. If you have used the toolbar over the last 6 months, or like what we do, please consider donating a few pounds to help pay the hosting costs.

Thanks.

ps. I'm afriad we can only accept donations via paypal.


http://www.property-bee.com/donate.php

*walks past quickly and pretends not to notice*

For anyone think of buying a house in the next 2 years. The bee could potenially save you thousands.

+1, it's a very nifty piece of work. It was (and continues to be) invaluable for rent negotiations, most notably for catching the signature 'asking price increase in anticipation of haggling' manoeuvre.

You caught me in a good mood. Normally I use these things and think to myself: "sure they'll get what they need". Sent them 20 quid. I shudder to think what Paypal will help themselves to, after raping me of 3p on the euro in their conversion rate.

I also just gave a colleague a few quid to starve herself for 24 hours. There's an idea, the bee-keepers could promise to starve themselves for 24 hours to encourage donations. Or maybe commit to a 24-hour marathon of "Location, Location, Location", limited to re-runs from boom times.

done.
worth it for BR's news-finding services as much as anything else.

keep up the good work.

I am Delighted to help with a small donation

its a good site and a great resource, more than happy to throw then a few euro

well worth it - tenner donated
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£100 a month? What kind of server do they need? Seriously.

So, while you still know everything, How do you propose that the service could be at a lower cost?

I will be honest and say I wont donate. This site has passed its sell by date. Its an echo chamber for anti landlords and smug so and sos. I will probably be banned now anyway!

This is the Property Pin. The site that needs donations is the Property Bee. If you find the tone very 'anti-landlord', the obvious thing to do is make the pro-landlord case, not run off. I think there are plenty of lurkers and posters who appreciate the service provided by good landlords.

Well, all of these are cheapear: http://www.blacknightvps.com/vps-starter.html.

Clearly you have not used the toolbar, or have no idea of the scale of the project. The basic package won't cut it.
Property bee http://www.property-bee.com is a toolbar that runs on Firefox, this scrapes the current price data for a property, sends this to a server, the server responds with the history, the toolbar works with daft.ie and most uk property sites.
Without tools like this we are at the mercy of estate agents, as their knowledge of the marketplace is part of their power, as I plan to buy next year I am happy to contribute to the annual £580 server hosting costs.