New owner for ADV

[drlewall]

Incase y'all didnt know, Baldy sold ADV..
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[LadyDraco]

Old news IICR .. Wasn't that like a year ago..

[drlewall]

Think I was banned so I was out of the loop....

[LadyDraco]

Think I was banned so I was out of the loop....

I believe you were out at that time

[TheModThatBannedYou]

Did Baldy sell the site? Or take on a partner?

[drlewall]

Did Baldy sell the site? Or take on a partner?

From what I read, and understood is, Baldy sold it..Rudy would be the one to ask and confirm (new owner)

[MrKiwi]

I thought Rudy is a partner. That is what I took from the interview thread.

[LadyDraco]

Yes ....

[drlewall]

I thought Rudy is a partner. That is what I took from the interview thread.

I read where Baldy took him in as a fellow techy to help, then sold it or gave ADV to him and he is now the owner and super operator of ADV....I may be wrong due to all the fog surrounding and hearsay of this topic..doin my best to help spread the hearsay I guess...

[MrKiwi]

Heresay you say... Well then you should have posted ...











Then I might have understood

[LadyDraco]

Then I miss understood as well ?

[drlewall]

Who is this Understood feller? I don't know him so how can I miss him?

[sasquatch2112]

Rudy is who told me that he is taking ADV to a more PC place. And he is looking at limiting nopaying members from the flea market and Jomamma

[anotherguy]

When that happens he'll lose the site. Traffic will plummet.

[LadyDraco]

Wow that's a bold move..

[drlewall]

Yeah..I remember when ADV was a fun place..not so much anymore...am done with it

[daniii]

Max Millender founded the VRodForum in '04. I was member #5 ( he lives a couple miles from me). It was my first forum experience. There were ups and downs, but I made a lot of true friends through the forum and the resultant Rallys held N of Kansas City every year (for 10 years). In spite of sponsoring factory tours every year the MoCo insisted that we change the name of the forum, as V-Rod was "proprietary". Renamed to 1130cc.com. Max sold the forum to verticalscope and paid off the mortgage on his house. There are probably less than a dozen left there. I "moderate" the "bagger" section. Not much going on. It may be that forums have a life span.

[Delicate Snowflake]

Recreational forums are incredibly hard to monetise; usually for long-lasting successful forums there is a vendor who chooses to fund all costs so as to preserve the related community and keep goodwill 'high' in an often [but not always] ever-shrinking user base.

When a website or forum sells for mortgage-payout type sums, the incoming buyer wants a return. The result is often just as you describe.

There are only a few ways to make money from a forum; advertising, affiliate sales, or user-pays. All three are tough to succeed with...

[drlewall]

Recreational forums are incredibly hard to monetise; usually for long-lasting successful forums there is a vendor who chooses to fund all costs so as to preserve the related community and keep goodwill 'high' in an often [but not always] ever-shrinking user base.

When a website or forum sells for mortgage-payout type sums, the incoming buyer wants a return. The result is often just as you describe.

There are only a few ways to make money from a forum; advertising, affiliate sales, or user-pays. All three are tough to succeed with...

Thus is why I am bailing on ADV and won't support..I have my own mortgage to think abt.

[LadyDraco]

My Support was a gift from an inmate...
Other wise I would not have bought in..

I never got a shirt . But that's OK ...