First of all is sitepoint the best place to sell a fairly established site? Should I just try to sell it privately to an individual instead? Should I have my auction go for the max of 30 days and just end it early if need be? What is the best method of payment for sending $x,xxx, assuming not paypal because of the fees. How can I protect myself from scammers? Is there a good place to get the site evaluated before I throw it up there? Lots of questions I know, but guaranteed reps for anyone that can help me.
It sounds like you need a coach or a consultant to guide you through this process. Sitepoint is an excellent place to sell your business. There are only a handful of places online that are really valuable places to sell your business. Sitepoint is one of them. They have a guide for buying and selling business. Have you downloaded it and read it yet?
Tips to avoid scammers: Don't accept bids via PM. Judging from our support tickets, PM bidders are very problematic and frequently renege on their commitments. SitePoint won't be able to help you if you sell your site to a PM bidder. Turn OFF the "auto-accept" bids feature--this means you have 72 hours to accept or reject each bid on your auctions. This gives you the opportunity to look at the bidding history and verification status of the bidder, and even to contact them via phone or email to ensure they are serious. This puts the power entirely in your hands. Use the "Only Accept Bids from Verified Bidders" option when creating your auction. This requires that all bidders on your auction have a verified telephone number on file with SitePoint. Insist on using one of the escrow services. Don't accept payment via PayPal. These precautions should greatly eliminate flaky bids, most of which come from people who are "0% Trusted." or whom pay using stolen PayPal accounts or bid via PM to get you to close your auction early and then "discover" a problem and ask for a reduced price or a payment plan. For more tips, see How to Avoid Being Scammed: http://suitej.com/flippin-fridays/flippin-fridays-how-to-avoid-being-scammed-by-fraudulent-buyers/ (I don't own this site)
Sitepoint is a great place for sure. Also you may try sedo.com, they have the escrow system--but they charge some percentage of the sales price.
sitepoint is a best and nice palace of site selling i tell your site make and site selling by auction. very easy way of selling site and pay money!
It depends on your site quality of how much it is worth, its not that if you sell on sitepoint that you will get a good price automatically... if your site is good with revenue traffic, etc, then sure it will go at a good price. You can decide on how much days you want to run the auction as it wont matter much