There's no use complaining to flippa about the sale, they can't do crap now.Though, the guy taking over runs a couple of freewebs websites with about 50 members. You can either be relieved that he won't touch anything because he has no idea what he's doing, or extremely worried that he'll do the exact opposite for the same reason... Haha.
Of course it was deleted, he can't have potential buyers finding out about the awful reputation and the bad things he's done.I don't think he'll be taking the database with him though, he just wants out.
The unfortunate thing is the person who ends up buying the site (unless it's handed to other members of their community) will want nothing but money from it.The email database is included, and will most likely be sold on to more spammers.