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by ericb 6631 days ago
When people post sites for sale in the sitepoint.com forums, to prevent the general public from stumbling across the sale, they usually use a tinyURL pointing to the site and avoid using the site name in the description text. This prevents the sale post from appearing in most search results. You could also check out the robots.txt for wherever you list.
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Would someone sell a site for this kind of money on Sitepoint? I've seen $15k-$30k on there, but not an amount as high as this. A quick glance is that even in the 'premium' category most are in this ballpark or less

Edit: sorry, don't mean to offend. Just curious if you know of any that have sold for this amount

No offense taken. In their premium section I have seen some things on for near this neighborhood (the lower part, though). My bigger concern is that sitepoint is about sites for sale rather than businesses for sale. To that end, I wasn't necessarily suggesting sitepoint so much as describing how people kept their privacy. If someone knows of a sitepoint equivalent for technical businesses, please post it--I'd like to check it out.
I would second the Sitepoint premium marketplace.

Here are a few that are in similar ranges:

http://marketplace.sitepoint.com/auctions/34096

http://marketplace.sitepoint.com/auctions/34080

Having tracked the marketplace for the last few months there are a fairly regular stream of companies that have $10-15k in revenue.

They tend to be forums and have a very webmaster skew. So I am not sure there would be software buyers but it's worth a shot.

This forum was recently sold on sitepoint i believe too: http://v7n.com/