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good to here from you Steve !!

Take care & get in touch when you get back to FL.

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Originally Posted by Quicksilver (Post 2660190)

What I don't get is I have an idea of what IB paid for a few sites as I know a few people, and the business site I'm on they bought we have a range of what they bought in considering what the owner did afterwards partying/having fun lol. And can't for the life of me think how they could recoop that cost back as none had ad revenue close to what some of the sites went for. Maybe I'm missing something?

Rethink your math- figure the cost of the ads and project it for years. Decades? Then look at that partial list that Sunkin posted. Many of those sites are much bigger than OSO and generate accordingly larger revenue.

Now, here's the key element: USER GENERATED CONTENT. Other than site maintenance and processing ad revenue and membership fees, they have to do very little work to keep a forum running.

That's a bit of oversimplification, but not much.
$$$Think about it.$$$

I was on Corvetteforum a few weeks ago, and was wondering why their site was so slow all of a sudden. Now I know.

Maybe IB can pull together some computers for their servers a little newer than 286's. Well, maybe that wouldn't help, since they are running their sites over dial-up.:evilb:

Michael.

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Originally Posted by Michael1 (Post 2662627)

www.ford-trucks.com too!

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Originally Posted by Michael1 (Post 2662627)

I think dial-up would be an improvement right now :party-smiley-004:

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Originally Posted by Cash Bar (Post 2660165)

OSO Steve asked me to say "HI" to the little people.

LOL!!!! You a funny man! :D :D

So, NORT, OSO STEVE said "HI". :angry-smiley-038:

LOL!!!! You a funny man! :D :D

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Originally Posted by formula 382 sr-1 (Post 2660192)

Hello all,

Thank you for the kind words. I spent the beginning of the summer in and out of doctors offices and surgeries to have the skin cancer removed from my lower lip. needless to say I am sure you all know where that cancer came from.

As most of you know I am from the D.C. area and I spend the summers visiting the family and watching my niece and nephews grow up.

The post cancer surgery left me off boats and out of the sun for the summer so I have not been on a boat in quite a while.

The kids go back to school next week and I am heading back to FL. I would be happy to see if I can assist in trying to resolve the problems as I would like to see OSO contiunue to be a place that you all can call home.

I do not have a non compete in place but I feel that it would not be right to start another site.

I hope you all are having a safe and fun summer and please remember to use your lip protection with spf when in the sun.

I will keep in touch.

Steve

Good to hear from ya Steve! Very good advise......use SPF! Hope things heal up good and always wear the SPF. Have a great summer and chillax. :)

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Originally Posted by fund razor (Post 2659839)

If so... there is a Black Thunder in California with just the right IB paint job. :D

.....and maintenance program.

LOL.
Set and spiked Roger. :D