Bandit Forum to be sold

[Mr Hammers]

The owner has had enough and is selling up;

https://www.banditforum.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=31813.0

[N cee thirty]

i got a eamil about that,tis a shame
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[tiny777]

Hope sombody buys it,great bunch of ppl there very helpful and an amazing amount of info to be found
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[Ditto]

It was really good for finding out stuff which is Bandit specific (obviously!) because all the guys have them and do most maintenance themselves.

I only really posted in the mechanical section when I had problems but they were always helpful.

Not that this workshop section isnt but this way all the posts were about Bandits
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[Ariel Badger]

No one will buy unless it generates a decent profit, how much is he asking?
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[Alex A]

[Mr Hammers]

[Kickstart]

Hi

Only way it has any real monetary value is for someone who wants to buy it and get some revenue, probably from advertising. Given it is about a 10th the size of BCF I suspect to get any half decent revenue (ie, commercially worthwhile for a return on investment) the advertising would need to be on quite a large scale, and that alone would hammer the forums desirability.

Charging for access would destroy the forum.

While donations could be used, the running costs of a forum that size are pretty small (be under £200 a year all in) so not sure it is justified.

To me the realistic value is a small amount from someone willing to pay to keep it as a useful Bandit resource. The amount would be down to how generous they wanted to be. Anything from a few quid to cover the transfer of the domain name to a couple of hundred quid.

All the best

Keith
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[multijoy]

I'd stump up some cash, but only on the proviso that nobcat becomes the forum logo



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[DrDonnyBrago]

If it gets sold as an advertising platform it wont last long before becoming another visordown.

[Irn-Bru]

These kind of things never end well, had something similar happen to a forum I was an admin on years ago (60K members, mostly PSP warez) and the new owner just squeezed as much cash out of the site/forum as he could then fucked off when he got bored and left it to rot
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[Misc]

Really good forum & a great group of people on there, would be a shame.

[pits]

[GSF Jamie 600]

Its a great forum, with some really top people on there, hopefully the forum gets sold to some one who actually has an interest in bikes, and does not kill the forum with shite advertisements, as upto now they have never had any advertisements.

Either way its the people that make a forum and there another bandit forum that no one ever uses, so if this gos flump that one may get very popular all of a sudden

[hmmmnz]

[Mr Hammers]

If I had the money to keep it going I'd love to, and I even think it could easily generate it's own revenue to cover costs, but I'd have to insist on one thing, and that would be that everyone made their sigs smaller, and not put in pics of their bikes! Really annoying seeing the same bike pic over and over and over and again when following a thread.

BCF's design is more clutter free and much more pleasant on the eye despite having ads top and bottom. If they lost the busy sigs and had fairly unobtrusive ads it could be as good as here.
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[multijoy]

[Korn]

[c_dug]

[Itchy]

More forum refugees to BCF? Yet again.....

Bleedin' immigrants!

First bikenet then VD...
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[Kal]

[pits]

The ones that go down the side, actually rotate so there is loads more than what you see, in fact it was one of the reasons I stopped using the site, when things become too commercial they lose appeal and you can see it is blatantly about money not the original point of said forum.

Just clicked on the "advertise on this forum" link and it is even worse
https://www.volkszone.com/?page_id=39

*yuck*

The thing is though, the guy who owns/runs that forum is minted, so it now just seems like greed.

[Ditto]

They even have a

"ADVERTISERS MESSAGE BOARD"

Man, he sold out.
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[pits]

Yeah, but the worst part is that he has even sold the advertising for that perticular section, and any other subsection of the forum

VZi ADVERTISERS MESSAGE BOARD
Take the time to check out any special offers or new products offered by the kind folks who sponsor the forums. This forum sponsored by So and so

Realised I posted the advertiser has sponsored the advertisers forum therefore advertising and spamming here, now removed.