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Despite v7n's sub-culture appeal, the folks behind the large webmaster community are giving it all up. For about $400,000. v7n is up for sale on Sitepoint, with a starting bid of $400,000 and a buy-it-now price of $500,000. Take even a quick glance at v7n's homepage and you'll see right away the type of content that's typically discussed on the site.
As Sites For Sale points out, v7n has nearly 40,000 members with over 800,000 posts. With the low price of $400,000 you'll get the forums, the site's bulletin, a web directory, an affiliate program, host ratings, a job marketplace, and the site's claim to fame, having pulled off quite a hoax with its fake term SEO contest some time ago, and getting lots of press for what it was worth. While the owners of v7n have reportedly assured everyone that the sale is indeed real and not just another prank, it looks like the reasoning behind the sale could be a waning desire to manage a web community forum any more.
[img src="" caption="" credit="" alt=""]John Scott, the man behind v7n, admitted in the company blog that he's in "back to school mode" and is stepping down from the daily duties of running the site. It looks like this is the primary reason behind the decision to sell, despite the reported tens of thousands of dollars that comes through the site through Google ads alone, on top of submission costs from users.