Not your everyday sale. Beautiful design, huge custom backend...

About Myself
I entered the market of creating/flipping sites early in 2006. I've sold many quality sites here. The one question that I get, which I'll go ahead and answer: Why create/flip instead of keep for myself? And the answer to that is: I have some flagship sites that I dedicate myself to. You make money in life with the stuff you really enjoy, and, while I enjoy managing the production and development of these sites I sell, I consolidate all of my efforts on the flagship sites that have paid the bills for years.

SITE DETAILS

www.blueplank.com

View http://www.blueplank.com/homeliving/ for a good idea of what kind of products the site features. I've held off on adding the remaining products since it's easier to add the remaining products once you purchase the site (because the affiliate code for each product will need to be yours). I've also held off in case you want to use the site as a shopping cart or foundation for some other niche/theme.

The design is very original, beautiful, and completely made in CSS. The programming is exceptional, all by a very talented team in the United Kingdom. The content was done by a professional copywriter based in Florida. I'd be willing to say that even if the content and entire theme/niche of the site doesn't interest someone, that the design, backend, and site functionality would be worth purchasing the site for.

Easy to update CMS (100% custom made)
The backend is password-protected and allows many features and content on the site to updated via the form. You can edit different features on each page, add new "items," delete "items," add images, create/edit categories -- the list goes on. Once you see the actual site, you'll understand what I mean by "items."

Screenshots of the backend to add items, products, and new categories:

http://www.blueplank.com/addcat.gif
http://www.blueplank.com/additem.gif
http://www.blueplank.com/itemform.gif
http://www.blueplank.com/postmanagement.gif

Obviously, the backend has many more pages, but those are the main categories. All of the underlying product category and subcategory pages are ran off of one PHP file, so if you make an edit to that single page, it edits throughout the categories. Very simple to update.

Search-Engine Friendly
All pages, even the new ones that you make dynamically through the site's backend are created with search engine friendly URLs using mod_rewrite.

Mask the sites you link to.
When you add an "item" to the site, if you link out (say, to an affiliate site) the script will automatically pass your link through the site, so it can't be detected. For example, if you wanted to link to: cj.com, the link will turn into website.com/out.phpid=123

Auto-Thumbnail
Auto thumnbail script for all images added for "items."

Search Feature
A built-in site search (custom made) feature.

Those are just some of the features.

If you're the winning bidder of this auction, in addition to receiving the site/domain and all underlying content, I'll give you the contact information of the programmer and copywriter -- if you have questions about the programming or wish to hire one of them for additional work.

As the site isn't marketed, please assume no traffic or revenue.

Starting Bid: $50.
Buy It Now: None as of now.

Auction will end no longer than exactly 5 days from this post, but I have the right to end it at anytime before that point if I deem necessary.

 

Will start you off at $50 ...
Thanks,
tasty

 

What happened to the previous sale?
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=153717&highlight=blueplank.com&page=4

 

I sold the site, but the old owner didn't do anything with the site. So, I bought it back last week -- I like to see my work grow, it wasn't. I can have him come vouch, if necessary. I remember you, chimaera -- haven't you bid on some of my stuff before?

Thanks!

 

$100 bid received via PM.

 

Actually, I think it would be from the previous sale of this site - hence my interest in knowing what happened =0)

Do you have a reserve this time?

 

I don't, but I'm probably going to set my BIN lower than what it was last time.

If you're interested in buying it now, PM/post a price. I might accept.

 

$200 bid from me,

Thanks.

 

BIN is set at $750.

 

Bid of $225 received via PM.

 

Bid of $300 received via PM by sitestem.

Now that the auction is getting older, I'll start posting bidders.

 

$305 ... from tasty

 

Thanks for the bid.

 

Auction will end Friday at 12 PM.

 

I've received a couple PMs -- no, I'm not selling the script.

BIN lowered to $600.

 

Site sold, thanks.

 

Just curious, for how much did you sell it?