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[steptoe]

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https://www.rleecustoms.co.uk

[EuropeanNC30R...]

How can you have run a forum yourself and yet not know how to post in the right section

[colin1]

i dont think hes the first person to post about something he wants to sell in 'general' because more ppl will look at it.
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[Andy C]

also, how can you shut a forum down, that mean you dont have many users, if i was to sell a forum (not that i would ever make one because that stuff cofurses me and this one is good) i would open it up for users to buy, you tried that?
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[steptoe]

How can you sit there and slag off something that you know nothing about???

Bikersdomain has been built from the ground up and has almost 200 members with more joining all of the time, there is potential for this to grow. The .com name has been valued at $500 but there is no website invloved.

The only reason I am selling up is that I just have the time, some of us have lives you know... There are some bikers out there that spend all of their time on bikes and there are other that just spend all of their time on forums slagging off the efforts of others.

The reason it was posted here was because I couldn't find anywhere else to post it and not that I wanted to gain more attention by placing it in the most used place on the forum.
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https://www.rleecustoms.co.uk

[Suzuki]

I fail to see how that site is worth £500.

Like Luke, even if I saw that domain available for £5 I wouldn't buy it. I certainly wouldn't buy it for £500 with only 200 users on a forum with so few posts.

There are members of BCF who have posted more posts on their own than the whole of your forum put together!

Also, if I were to buy it, I wouldn't want any of the hosting that you mention, since I have my own server. So you'd have to make me an offer for just the domain, and the vBulletin licence.



EDIT - over 1000 posts on the forum are in a thread titled "THE STUPIDEST THREAD..whoever post last is the best."
There are only 10000 posts on the forum in total. That's 10% of your forum in that one thread!

Nobody's going to buy that crappy site for £500 mate.
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[steptoe]

[Suzuki]

[imho]

also over a tenth of all the posts are by someone called Steptoe

[Suzuki]

Interestingly, your site is only just over a year old, with it being registerd shortly after you joined BCF...

[imho]

Also if it was worth a lot of money and had business potential it wouldnt be on ebay for £100

[yambabe]

It was a bit more complicated than that Jon, but you're not far off the mark!

Steptoe I thought you'd sold out to Jonny last year? At least, that was what you said at the time........

Then again, you talk a lot of bollocks don't you? Guess I should expect that from you by now.
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[Dom]

Given that the VB license and forum posts are probably the most (only?) valuable aspects of the site, it is somewhat concerning that 'There seems to have been a slight problem with the database.' appears a good 70% of the times I've tried to load a page.

If you want to sell it the first thing you need to do is fix the database problems.

Also that frontpage "!!Bikers Domain is up for sale!!" is horrible and completely devalues the site. Anyone vaguely interested in developing the site will be well aware that that is going to result in most of the genuine posters who see that thinking "oh well sod that" and going elsewhere.

Babyyam, what's the background on the site if you don't mind?
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[imho]

[Suzuki]

Yeah, come on babyyam, spill the beans!
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[RobB]

[Suzuki]

I wonder if steptoe is too embarrassed to come back now.
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[Dom]

Don't know the politics but see this post and then this forum.

Is the site actually getting any traffic currently? Do you have any stats programs for it online?
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[Suzuki]

[Dom]

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[yambabe]

Ok, Ok!

It’s a bit convoluted, so bear with me……

There is an online bike magazine/website called Bikersweb (www.bikersweb.co.uk) that has been going for a few years. It was very well respected in bike circles as it had daily news updates, events listing, classifieds, produced photos & videos, had an on-line shop & stalls at most major rallies and events and had a reasonably busy forum that had also become somewhat of a community like this one, with people meeting up on a regular basis. It was owned by a partnership of two people, generated a fair bit of advertising revenue and made a reasonable living for the people involved.

Steptoe joined the forum and lets just say did not make himself particularly well-liked.

Right, this is where it gets complicated. The owners of Bikersweb fell out. I’m not going to go into detail but lets just say things got messy for them on a personal level with court cases, jail, and sabotage of the website all involved at various stages. The website and particularly the forum became very unstable, often disappearing off the ‘net for days or even weeks at a time. Several forum members saw this happening and, not wishing to lose touch with their mates and seeing the traffic & potential advertising revenue, set up alternative domains with forums so that people could stay in touch.

One of these was bikersdomain, but it was set up fairly quietly with just a few of Steptoes mates at first – like I said he wasn’t particularly well liked on the other forums. I think he probably did intend to develop it at some point into a full-blown website, but never got round to it. Last year, during one of the times when bikersweb was offline again, a number of people signed up there in a very short space of time and there was a brief flurry of activity. However, there was also a great deal of editing, removing of posts and threats of banning which didn’t go down too well with the “customers” Bikers are notoriously touchy about freedom, including freedom of speech, and the ones on this site weren’t impressed with the way it was run and said so. So, Steptoe threw a hissy fit and said he couldn’t be bothered any more, he was bailing out, and Jonny (jonnyfp on this forum and others) now owned bikersdomain. This was confirmed by Jonny.

Steptoe still turns up on other forums occasionally, and has not really mentioned bikersdomain anywhere that I’ve come across him since then.

Although I’m puzzled that the business/forum was essentially sold to Jonny (although obviously not the domain name) to be honest I really don’t give a toss. I never went on there much anyway because of Steptoe’s involvement.

Ask him about the club, if you want a laugh!
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[imho]

hmm.. interesting.....

tell more about jail and sabotage?

[Suzuki]

Steptoe isn't very friendly is he.

He PM'd me demanding I edit the public information I retrieved from the WHOIS database. He didn't even say please.

He's now edited the WHOIS data such that his address isn't shown, and demanded again that I edit my post.

Soon as he asks me nicely, and says "please" I'll do it.
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[NickD]

[yambabe]

Nick, he is involved in the infamous TenSixtySix MCC - remember them?
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