Some (a few too many, perhaps 
) will have noticed the listing on Sitepoint’s Established Websites for sale section that’s a bit familiar… that of this blog.
It’s been a fun year and a bit, but all good things have to come to an end… sometime within the next couple of weeks, this blog will be sold and I will no longer be posting regularly on here (although I will drop by infrequently to share some advice).
The reason for this is stuff offline – being a university student (you never would have guessed, would you? 
) I have exams coming up, starting on December 13th and carrying through to the 30th, and I’ll have to study for those (I haven’t started yet). After that I’ll be leaving on the 1st of January to go on vacation – to Hong Kong for twenty two days, and then the next term (which actually starts on the 11th of January, so I’ll miss eleven days and need to catch up).
Two months away is a long time, especially online where things are constantly moving – in all honesty I’ve been dropping levels of effort on this blog in for a while now and haven’t promoted it or aimed to maximise its potential – it’s time for someone to take over that can do this and take it to “the next level” (a John Chow / Shoemoney sized superstar).
Can it be done? I don’t see why not, as long as it goes to someone less lazy then me.
I’d like to personally thank anyone who has ever visited the blog, dropped a comment, linked here, sent me an email or just added me on instant messenger for a chat… I appreciate every single one of you doing this and there’s no way this blog will have grown as it has without the backing of you guys. I hope you’ll be as helpful and friendly to the new owner, whoever s/he may be.
Help Me Out
I’d really like to get this sale finished as soon as possible – my time is limited and the faster someone with drive, with initiative takes it over, the faster it can start the explosive growth that should be happening right now.
I’ve you’ve got some time, please spread the word – post about it on your blog, Twitter it, tell people on forums and do whatever you can. It will help me out a great deal.
The buyer will be getting sensational value – at the moment current bid is only $3,500 with BIN of $15,000 – Blog Premiere will be included if the website is BINed. If you are the person that refers the end buyer which purchases the site, I’ll send you 5% of the end sale price through Paypal or 10% if the buyer pays BIN price (that’s $1,500). Think of it as affiliate marketing – if your blog refers the sale, you’ll get a commission. Thanks!
Lastly – I hope you guys will give the new owner a chance; I know some of you like the blog because of the posts on it, most by me, but remember that whoever buys this blog will have some kind of experience with internet marketing but be completely new to blogging – I was new to both once and if you guys could be as supportive to him as you were to me, this blog would be all the better for it. I’ll also be popping in once in a while with a post, and you don’t want to miss out on those do you?
Good luck with your online endeavours,
Jason
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December 4th, 2008 at 12:07 pm
It’s going to be so sad to see you go, Jason. You’re blog has really been on of the best around the blogosphere.
Will you still be going on MSN and continuing with other projects, or will you completely stop all online activity?
Anyways, good luck to you in your exams, and be sure to have fun on vacation!
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Jason (703 comments) Reply:
December 4th, 2008 at 7:10 pm
I will be on MSN / Yahoo but will likely respond less. Will not be on at all during January though. As for my other projects – partners are taking over some of them, a lot have been sold and others I will just let die (the smaller ones).
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ouzie from FNetspreneur (1 comments) Reply:
December 5th, 2008 at 9:38 am
why don’t you give the smaller ones to others (like me
)
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Sheila-ArmyWife (1 comments) Reply:
December 5th, 2008 at 2:31 pm
Yeah, I would definitely get others to help you instead of selling. You seem to have a good thing going here. Maybe ask John Chow or Shoemoney what they would do. Maybe they will give you some tips.
Don’t give it up. I wouldn’t if you truly want to keep it. We the mistake of selling a site a few years ago, which my husband started. we only sold it for like 2500.00 and then the person who took it over tried to say HE was the founder and screwed it up, now they are doing nothing with it.
I”m just saying, if you want to keep it, keep it and have other help you.
Good Luck
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the Blogoholic (18 comments) Reply:
December 20th, 2008 at 3:05 pm
Ask John Chow or Shoemoney for tips? Hehe.
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December 4th, 2008 at 12:19 pm
Dang, you’re going to be missed. I do hope you’re not going to fall off the map completely?
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December 4th, 2008 at 12:20 pm
Hopefully we will see you back again! I loved watching this blog grow and seeing you develop into a very successful internet marketer! Best of luck with the sale!
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December 4th, 2008 at 12:30 pm
What is TheUniversityKid without, erm, TheUniversityKid?
Though I don’t often comment on your blog, I visit it almost everyday and usually recommend it to people who ask about making money online. You’ve made a great contribution to the MMO world with your energetic, proactive and down-to-earth posts.
On the flipside (‘xcuse the pun. Flip. Get it?), I’m sure you’re moving on to bigger projects and we haven’t heard the last of you yet, so I look forward to coming across you in the blogsphere in some shape or form in the near future.
take care, Jason…
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December 4th, 2008 at 12:54 pm
It is sad to hear that you are you are selling this blog. I always believe blog can generate a passive income once web traffic and loyal readers are well established..that is my personal thought…
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December 4th, 2008 at 1:28 pm
Awesome Jason. Its a great news that you are going to sell the blog. But the sad thing is that we are going to miss your content. Any way Congratz. I hope your blog sells for 15000$ it self. Congratz Again Jason
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December 4th, 2008 at 1:29 pm
It will be sad to see you go Jason. Good luck in your future endeavors. I want to see you dropping in by from time to time. I hope that the new owner will not delete all those old posts, because they contain a goldmine of information.
All the best. Its sad to see you go.
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December 4th, 2008 at 2:05 pm
Hi Jason,
What, and to think I just found a great blog that I’m addicted to. Anyway wish you the very best for your future and just hope all these good posts remained. I had thoughts of using a few of them for my new blog. Looks like I can’t now.
Peter Lee
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December 4th, 2008 at 2:26 pm
we are all going to miss you so much Jason!!! I will try to help out best I can with getting the word out about the sale of this blog. I’ll post about it on mine (though i rarely get visitors) and put in a good word for ya.
We love you Jason
Happy holidays, and good luck on the exams
hugs, kisses, and best wishes
Spaz125
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December 4th, 2008 at 2:44 pm
Good riddance I say…..
You know I am joking…tears are steaming down my face at the thought of seeing you go. But truthfully, I don’t care because your new blog is even better than this one and I have already subscribed to that
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December 4th, 2008 at 2:51 pm
Too many MMO blogs winding up of late… not a good trend, I guess blog flipping is catching up as well which is a good way to make money but at the end the blogs will loose its brand value when the original person behind bows out.
I hope if a passionate ’somebody’ from the university itself can pick it up, that would be an ideal replacement!
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December 4th, 2008 at 3:14 pm
Sad to see this blog being sold but then again, you could have sold it a long time ago for $6k… but how will you know who referred you?
Jay
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Jason (703 comments) Reply:
December 4th, 2008 at 7:12 pm
If the buyer tells me that X person told them about the sale, I’ll send X person the amount mentioned in the post.
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December 4th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
Curious, what is the more lucrative offer you’ve received? You must be making a lot to decide to sell this…
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December 4th, 2008 at 5:11 pm
Ohh very sad news
This is one of my favorite blog, which has been in my blogroll since I started my blog ;( Hope the new person will run this blog as you did 
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December 4th, 2008 at 7:26 pm
Dude,
You’ll be really really missed! You’re an amazing person dude.
I’m really hopeful you get the BIN.
See ya around dude
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December 4th, 2008 at 10:29 pm
It will be sad to see you go Jason. This is one of my favorite blogs and I have publicly expressed that many times by linking to it from my own blogs. Usually when a blog I like gets sold I unsubscribe from it right away because the new owner rarely lives up. However, I will give this one a chance for a while and see what the new owner can do with it.
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December 4th, 2008 at 11:46 pm
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December 5th, 2008 at 12:30 am
Oh wow. I guess wasn’t the only one who was planning to sell their blog. Good luck with your sale, Jason!
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December 5th, 2008 at 12:46 am
hey, can’t believe that the flipping idea will work on your own blog.
We will miss you.. best of luck
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December 5th, 2008 at 1:06 am
We will miss you.
Hey, but that is nice demonstration of Site flipping.
$15,000 for one year work.
Good luck.
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December 5th, 2008 at 1:43 am
Good luck my friend, in whatever you take on.
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December 5th, 2008 at 3:34 am
all the best
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December 5th, 2008 at 3:51 am
Really? Already going Jason? I have been with this blog for months, and even though you faced a few challenges you still never sold it! It will be really sad to see you go, atleast you stuck it out for a year. Are you sure you will not reconsider, and just go unactive for 2 months like I did, and then try to pop back up? So many people I know are going, and now you are leaving too? Well bye bye, best of luck! I hope you turn up somewhere later!
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December 5th, 2008 at 4:22 am
Good luck with your future projects man!
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December 5th, 2008 at 6:34 am
This blog has a good PR and quite a good traffic too and I’m not surprise that BIN $15k.
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December 5th, 2008 at 9:39 am
I am sure it was very hard for you to decide to go for this step. Good luck with the sale and university obligations.
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December 5th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
Now the feedbox shows you have 797 readers
sadly most of them unsubscribed!
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Jason (703 comments) Reply:
December 5th, 2008 at 2:37 pm
That is a Feedburner glitch mate – it isn’t counting email subs.
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the Blogoholic (18 comments) Reply:
December 7th, 2008 at 7:51 am
I thought all your readers had decided to jump ship!
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December 5th, 2008 at 3:28 pm
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December 5th, 2008 at 9:20 pm
Hi Jason,
I will surely miss this blog. Have a great Future. Best of luck on the Blog Sale.
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December 6th, 2008 at 12:17 am
Good luck with the sale mate, this just shows me that I’ve got to try harder to keep up with net evolution – a blog with a life-span of 1 year, Wow!
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December 6th, 2008 at 3:17 am
Dang… Guess I’ll just be following you through Make Money Dynamo. Good luck and thanks for sharing all the information.
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December 6th, 2008 at 3:23 am
Best of luck with the sale. You’ve always been a great guy and a great writer. I’m planning on being in Dubai next year around December, so even if you get rid of the blog, I’m going to be e-mailing you around then to see what you’re up to and we’ll go grab some hookah or something (and if you don’t smoke, I’ll just get you a coke).
This blog has been extremely entertaining, and I do applaud keeping up with updates. Very well done
! Success online is hard to get, and I definitely consider you a success. Message me on MSN sometime and I’ll let you know what happened about 3 months ago. WOOT!
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December 6th, 2008 at 3:34 am
WOW; I did not expect that! Best of luck for your exams and then enjoy the holiday as well.
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December 6th, 2008 at 3:35 am
PS If you can, please share with us what is the price that this blog fetches when you do sell it.
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December 6th, 2008 at 7:14 am
Best of luck with the sale. You’ve shared alot of good insights with your readers, and I, for one, appreciate that very much.
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December 6th, 2008 at 11:33 am
Is this yet another symptom of recession setting in?…Jason selling his blog…who never supported personal blogs to be sold away like that?…..I dont know…but we are gonna miss a wonderful asset of our community.
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December 6th, 2008 at 3:37 pm
This is sad! After all your hardwork and perseverance in this blog, you’ll be selling it?! Hmmm….
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December 7th, 2008 at 4:09 am
Awww.. Its such a waste to see you go..
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December 7th, 2008 at 7:47 am
So I read this post the day it was published, but didn’t really know how to respond.
As a reader/member that has been along for most of the ride over the last year I must say that I am very saddened to see Jason sell the site. I have learned a lot from TUK and have met a lot of cool people along the way. Getting to know Jason through this site and IM/email has been a great part of this last year online.
I can’t say that I didn’t see it coming though, as it was apparent that Jason was too busy, or had lost interest in managing this site. Not that the quality of content ever suffered, it just became less frequent. Early on the site had a great small community feel, and Jason had even posted that he didn’t want TUK to grow because he didn’t want to lose that environment. But with the great content he was putting out it was inevitable that TUK would grow beyond the “small group of friends blog” into a large resource site attracting new visitors every day. I guess there are positives and negatives to both scenarios!
I will definitely stick around when the new owner comes on board, but I must say they are going to have some tough shoes to fill. I guess we will see how it goes. Hopefully the buyer will keep up the quality of content and fulfill the reader expectations that Jason had previously created. Good luck to the buyer and come into this sale fully knowing what you are getting yourself into!!
All of the above also applies to Blog Premiere! Jason, you have me on IM, keep me updated on your projects and anything you need help with, or can help me out with. Thanks for the great run!
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the Blogoholic (18 comments) Reply:
December 7th, 2008 at 7:52 am
Wow, Jason, you’ve got some really awesome readers!
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December 7th, 2008 at 9:40 am
Hi jason, look what happens, took a break for few months and come back to see your favorite blog up for sale. Man internet life is short.
Anyway jason respect you for your decision. Knew this blog when it started up( remember DP
). Won a contest here for the first time in my online experience. It looks like your favorite childhood/college mall or familiar place undergoing a change.
Well hope the new owner lives up to your tradition of bonding with the readers and having a personal touch to the posts especially the strikethroughs
If you need a partner for any of your other sites hit me up on mail or IM.
All the best for your university course and ofcourse to the auction.
Cheers mate
Chenzen.
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December 7th, 2008 at 1:55 pm
Hey Jason all the visitors who likes this blog are saying that there are sad on hearing the news. Any way Have a happy sale.
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December 7th, 2008 at 3:53 pm
Good luck with the sale Jason. You will do well with all your endeavors.
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December 7th, 2008 at 7:36 pm
good luck in your future projects … and the ‘auction’ . What the minimum bid ?
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December 7th, 2008 at 10:06 pm
It is a shame your selling your blog but I’m really glad you won’t be gone for good and you’ll be sticking around on and making posts on your new JV blog.
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December 8th, 2008 at 3:43 am
Sorry to here the news!
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December 8th, 2008 at 10:31 pm
Hope the sale goes well, I’m too 16 and blog, Good luck with the future.
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December 9th, 2008 at 2:06 am
It is amazing to see what a lot of goodwill you have garnered here; very many people are sad to see you go. The goodwill itself should be quite valuable when you sell the blog, I would imagine.
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December 9th, 2008 at 5:59 am
I’m going to miss your content and I wish you good luck with your exams
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December 9th, 2008 at 9:51 am
My friend, it’s so sad to hear that.
Hope see your soon return !
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December 9th, 2008 at 7:24 pm
Are you going to be working more on your new site?
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December 9th, 2008 at 9:27 pm
I wish I could buy this lol
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December 10th, 2008 at 12:48 am
brilliant blod cant believe your selling it, but good luck with it.
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December 10th, 2008 at 11:41 am
good luck in the future! Will miss the blog.
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December 14th, 2008 at 5:41 pm
Good luck with the sale. I’ll be keeping an eye on it through Sitepoint.
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December 16th, 2008 at 5:49 pm
Wish you all the best for your future. Best of luck!
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December 16th, 2008 at 9:01 pm
This is a nice little blog and will no doubt sell pretty easily I imagine. I wish you the best in your future endeavors as well.
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December 19th, 2008 at 10:41 am
Has the sale gone through Jason?
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December 21st, 2008 at 11:13 am
Wow… let’s see how much is the new owner is going to pay for this blog.
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December 26th, 2008 at 12:32 pm
great blog! your blog is on the top of World’s Youngest Bloggers ~~
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January 11th, 2009 at 6:00 am
selling blog would not be a good idea, i love reading what you wrote and have bookmarked several of your posts for references. If you already made up your mind on selling then what can i say, wish you best of luck for the sale
Cheers
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March 5th, 2009 at 7:57 am
Why u selling this great blog
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