Can you sell me your Facebook Page?

No, I’m really not interested. But that question just came up. Sort of…

Here’s the page guidelines http://www.facebook.com/page_guidelines.php that every person who has created a Page has agreed to. Did you read that? That’s ok, here’s the important parts…

III. Page Features

A. Advertising on Pages

Ads and commercial content (including Page post content) are subject to the Advertising Guidelines.

Third-party advertisements on Pages are prohibited.

But that’s not specifically what she’s talking about. In the help section, you’ll find…

BUT, that doesn’t mean that the Page owner can sell that Page. That is, and always has been, specifically illegal. Facebook owns the Page, you can’t sell what you don’t own – right? You can’t rent, you can’t sell advertising and you can’t ‘transfer’ your Page to another party. Period.

In the basic Terms (http://www.facebook.com/legal/terms) you’ll find in Sec 4, point 9…

Now you might see why I suggested dropping the Vanity URL threshold to zero LIKEs or even just 25 was a bad idea. There was a land rush – and guess what? You missed it. Sorry about that.

Still pissed? Want to report a Page for a violation? Here’s how…

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A former professional hand model, Mike builds Custom WordPress Websites that rock!

He's an avid hockey fan, rides a mountain bike, sometimes rides a road bike, has a few motorcycles (he had a really fast one, bought a cool orange one, rode a really slow one, and now,a perfect "BDR Weapon"). If that isn't enough, he makes cheese and sourdough bread, loves strong beer and good red wine, and poorly plays the Mandolin.

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