I’m FREAKING mad as hell today. I’m going to sell my blog to somneone who doesn’t know anything about blogging? WHAT ARE PEOPLE THINKING.

Lately there’s been some buzz being created over the sales of some A-List blogs. And some other blogs.

Heres a question I want you to think about. Or maybe this is my own personal opinion coming out.

Would you feel screwed if your favourite blogger sold his to blog to someone who doesn’t know anything about the niche?

From my own point of view YEP I certainly feel screwed.

2 weeks ago WPDesigner.com sold his blog for $65,000 to some guy named pawel. Heres his intro to his readers.

“I’m Pawel Ciszewski the new owner. I’ll keep this post short and to the point and answer some questions the community has been asking.
Who are you and what are your plans with WPDesigner?
My names Pawel Ciszewski, the names Polish but I’ve was born and raised in Milwaukee, WI and currently reside in Miami Beach, FL. I’m an online entrepreneur who actively pursues many differenet internet ventures and actively acquire sites that I feel are valuable resources to the Internet and will be profitable long term.
What are your plans for wpdesigner?
I will try to keep the blog posts and blog designs as good as they where by SP but that will be a challenge and nobody will replace SP.
Expanding the themes club will be my main objective.

I myself won’t be actively posting or building themes, not by expertise and leave that to those who are.
Currently in talks with some well know WP theme designers to take over the building of monthly new themes and blog posting but have not yet determined who will take over that responsibility.
Thanks,
Pawel”

OK let me read that again. Pawel and the previous owner haven’t determined who is going to be doing the posting or themes designing before the sale took place ??!!?? WHAT!!! Are you nuts ?? So now it’s been two weeks and theres been quite alot of comments some welcoming some not so much.

Look I dont have any beefs with someone selling a business and in this case this is one of the ways you make money blogging. Building something and then selling it (obvious huh)

I understand that small potato had some personal issues and couldn’t maintain his blog. I personally think it would have been better if he came out in a post and said due to conflicting personal issues I wont be posting or doing any theme designing until I find someone capable of maintaining the high quality content you have come to know and love from WPDesinger.

But no he sold to a Virtual real estate investor for $65,000. It’s pretty obvious from his opening statement that he wanted the 5 buck a month themes club. (so far there’s only 4 themes) Don’t know how many paying customers there are. While 5 bucks for 4 themes is a good price.

Check this comment out.

“Hi,

I just signed up and paid for the club membership…
When will my account be activated?

Thanks ”

WTF

So someone just got ripped off and it’s only been two weeks !!

So obviously nothing is being done YET .

Blog rips offs seem to be spreading like a plague.

Don miller over at making sales making money is following a very closely related other blog sale turning into the same fiasco. in his post h’s quite accurately calling it what it is. One mans goal……Score one man scammed

Yet another blog sold to someone who doesnt know the niche. What the heck are people thinking. Read the guys open admission do you think he might have gotten some PR advice before shooting his readers.

He knows nothing about wordpress, it’s his first blog and wants to make 3,5000/ month off of the site???

Ok i’ll just re-phrase his video post for you. Hey dudes I’m a snow boarder and mountain bike rider I really like doing that I have no idea what a blog is so when I’m not busy boarding and riding i’ll be trying to figure it out mean while please spend your money on this blog so I can keep snowboarding and bike riding, thanks.

The site has 616 RSS feed readers, 396 Aweber newsletter subscribers. And that who is running the show. A spaced out snowboarder.

Know what my answer would be to that. Goodbye and I’m un-subscribing.

Another A-list blog goes up on the chopping block. Not much info or details about this one though. Johncow.com recently sold for 65,000$ as well. It appears from reading his proposal posts that he was a bit more responsible about it, than the other few blogs I just mentioned.

Update: Mark over at 45N Details the current value of make money online blogs and how to value a blog a and lists out some of the blogs that have sold recently and what some blogs are currently valued at.

Speaking of mark galeazzi Vic over at blogger unleashed feels that this guy is just another dumb fuck who got suckered into buying  a piece of crap blog for 10k. I’ll say this Ive been watching vic for a few months now and I’ll say this Vic nails alot of what he says right on the head. Vic is a video blogger as is mark over at 45n. Both with re-freshing viewpoint of the blogging world. I strongly recommend you read and or subscribe to both of their blogs.

SO what should you do when considering selling your blog?

Some tough questions need to be asked on a personal level I think.

1. Do you value and respect your readers? Yep I do. (very important)
2. Have you secured a person who knows the niche?
3. Is your new owner a blogger?
4. Whats their track record?
5. if they’re not a blogger who’ll be doing it?
6. Whats their content strategy?
7. When will they start?

Can you think of any other points that should be added?

Whats your thoughts and how do you feel when your fave blogger packs it in and sells?