looking to purchase unused blog motion theme

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  weareswiss · Member · Jan 4, 2014 at 8:52 pm

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  Hello,
  I am lookig to take over(buy) someones wordpress.com blog that he or she doesnt use and has the motion theme. since they retired it.
  much appreciated
  mark
  reply to this post so i get nitified via email

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  justjennifer · Member · Jan 4, 2014 at 9:36 pm

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  If you are looking to apply the Motion theme on your brand new WordPress.com site, you are correct that it will not be available for you to use. It is only available to sites that were opened prior to the theme being retired.

  If you want to buy someone’s site using that theme, you’ll have to contact them directly either through an open comment box or a contact form on that site. Neither we nor Staff can do anything to help you contact the site owner. You can find sites using the Motion theme by searching for the theme’s footer credits in Google.

  Just be aware that retired themes may not be updated with the latest features.

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  weareswiss · Member · Jan 4, 2014 at 9:53 pm

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  yes already contacting some, thank you. anyone out there reading this and has an oppertunity, much appreciated.
  damn that its retired. . .

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  weareswiss · Member · Jan 4, 2014 at 9:55 pm

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  yes already contacting some, thank you. anyone out there reading this and has an oppertunity, much appreciated.
  damn that its retired. . .

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  justjennifer · Member · Jan 4, 2014 at 10:03 pm

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  To be honest, even though I believe it is possible, I am not entirely sure that if a site owner agrees to transfer ownership of an existing site to you that you will be able to use the retired theme. So, as someone else has tagged this for Staff assistance, I am asking Staff for confirmation.

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  weareswiss · Member · Jan 4, 2014 at 10:28 pm

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  thanks.
  lots and lots of blogs live with this theme.

  if you would get it back up in the theme options for a couple of days then much appreciated

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  staff-ozmodiar · Staff · Jan 6, 2014 at 7:04 pm

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  @weareswiss

  I am going to send you an email to your WordPress.com registered address. Let me know if you do not get it.

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  justjennifer · Member · Jan 7, 2014 at 7:53 am

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  Hey Josh, could you please answer my above question?

  I’ll restate it here so that it is a bit clearer: if a site owner agrees to transfer ownership of an existing site using a retired theme, will the new owner of the transferred site be able to use the retired theme?

  Thanks!

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  nicewaves · Member · Jan 7, 2014 at 8:15 am

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  Hi Jennifer,
  Issue is being solved.
  Thans for your help,
  Mark

  Topic can be closed.

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  justjennifer · Member · Jan 7, 2014 at 8:25 am

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  @nicewaves glad to see that you’ve worked this out (nice site customization BTW), but I would still like an answer to my question. :)

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  weareswiss · Member · Jan 7, 2014 at 8:27 am

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  HI JENNIFER,
  THANKS TO YOUR HELP JOSH IS NOW HELPING ME WITH MY ISSUE. THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
  HAVE A NICE DAY
  MARK

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  weareswiss · Member · Jan 7, 2014 at 8:31 am

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  i CAN ALREADY ANSWER YOUR QUESTION : SOMEBODY WAS SO NICE THAT I CAN USE HIS OLD BLOG. HE GIVES ME HIE LOGIN DETAILS AND I COULD SIMPLY CONTINUE USING THE BLOG.
  HAVE A NICE DAY
  MARK

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  justjennifer · Member · Jan 7, 2014 at 12:34 pm

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  Thanks, Mark, but my question is still not entirely answered.

  nicewaves is an account that is 10 months old and the Motion theme was retired after that. This means that nicewaves can still use that theme if that account had a website prior to the theme being retired.

  weareswiss is an account that is 2 days old and technically would not be able to use the Motion theme, since the account was created after the theme was retired.

  So, again, thanks for your replies, but I still would appreciate receiving a reply from Staff to my above question. :)

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  staff-ozmodiar · Staff · Jan 8, 2014 at 4:14 am

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  justjennifer,

  In theory that should work. As the ability to use retired themes is not user based, but blog based.

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  auxclass · Member · Jan 8, 2014 at 6:50 am

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  I guess that would explain one of my blogs as having 330 themes available

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  justjennifer · Member · Jan 8, 2014 at 12:39 pm

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  @auxclass-exactly right and what I pointed out here.

  So, in order to use a retired theme, the site had to be created prior to the theme being retired and fortunately, this includes older sites that are transferred to new ownership. Got it.