Popular German Blog Basic Thinking Goes Up For Sale on eBay

The popular German blog Basic Thinking will be put up for auction on eBay over the coming week. You can read the translated version of the blog post here. Basic Thinking is run by Robert Basic and is part of his blog network. The other blogs in his network will not be sold at this time. Basic is looking for between 10,000 and 100,000 Euros for the domain, the blog and the logo.

Basic notes that the email addresses of those who have commented on his blog will be removed. I think that’s a really interesting point – when a blog or community is sold, what access does the new owner have to the current users. I am sure most large communities discuss acquisitions in their TOS but what about blogs?

Basic Thinking shows approximately 25,000 RSS subscribers via their FeedBurner chicklet (you know what I think of these numbers). While the number may or may not be real, there is a good deal of commenting activity which shows an active community. One of the most popular discussions I have regarding blog acquisitions is whether the community will remain around once the blogger/personality leaves the site.

I have heard a small bit of chatter that this might be a linkbait stunt. Spiegel Online has more information about the upcoming auction.