I have no doubt that that is the case. I don't remember exactly how or when, but it seems like we were told that when some of the corporate people were in town for an event.

 

So in other words....we can look forward to a 50% increase in SPAM in our SL email boxes?????

 

Yeah, there are a couple of posts that prove this actually. One post was talking about a lemon xa that went all the way to court (I think the post dealt with brakes)... during the court case, posts from this website made by the plaintiff were shown.

 

no, that only happens when you become a mod.

 

When life gives you spam, do as the hawaiians do and make spam matsubi

 

cool, a raise! oh, but 150% of 0 is what??

 

I'm not sure what you're referring to here, djct. I always considered SL an enthusiast site - but as I now see, it was a business venture. Which is fine, and requires retraction of my previous statement. One business being sold to another isn't selling out.

However, your statements still puzzle me. No offense, but what do they have to do with anything? Also, there's no need to flame. Coherent arguments are fine - and also admitting when you are wrong, like I try to do - but flaming is often considered to be low-level and unnecessary on quality forums. Please avoid it in the future.

Gotcha. Looking forward to faster servers then

Thanks Darren for what you did to bring SL to this point.

 

I dont envy your position, for that reason. All the power in Web, and no shortage of whiney emails.....its great.

 

Internet Brands is a business right? A for-profit business right? So their goal is to make $$$ right?

Darren and Troy were (I'm guessing) initially in it for the fun of it as car enthusiasts right? NOT to make $$$. When the money came through advertisers, premium members, and however else they generate enough money to keep the servers going, any extra was a "bonus" wasn't it?

Unless I'm looking at the past through rose-colored glasses. I'm not too familiar with the history of SL.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Brands
http://www.internetbrands.com/ib/

Congratulations to Darren! I'm uberly jealous of whatever amount you got for this place!

 

So maybe since he sold the webpage he can not start selling window stickers again ... FTW

 

QFT!!!!!!!!!!!!! I second, third, fourth... I 1 millionth that..

but you know it's going to happen eventually.......



Just to be nosey... Can't you find out how much the site sold for.. Isn't that like public information.. at least for tax reasons...

 

Darren started SL as a business and as an automotive (and specifically Toyota) enthusiast. Part of the reason SL has succeeded is because he is an entrepreneur, and unlike many purely enthusiast sites, he was able to make a living off the site, which allowed him to develop it and improve it full time. Win-win. Many enthusiast sites never grow to the size of SL, partly because they don't get the same support.

IB didn't just buy the traffic to SL, they bought the meeting place for this community. They know that in order to maintain the value in this site, they need to keep all of you happy. Changes that will drive off visitors wouldn't help anyone, so I expect any changes down the road to just be improvements.

 

Does this mean we can make the Thread Jacker pages as big as we want now?????

 

^ LOL

 

I personally congratulated both Darren and Troy for all their hard work in Miami; im almost sure they dont remember. To take an idea and make it what this site has become cant be measured by words. To turn around and sell it to an internet provider of such caliber ... thats just ducky by me. Congrats and thanks again ....

As some have pointed out, once a bigger fish eats the smaller fish, the smaller is nothing more then a memory. This little fish got eaten up ( again i believe Darren worked hard to get here and he deserves every penny ) but i think its only a matter of time until SL looses its closeness.

Unless the buyer only bought 49% and the other 51% is left in the hands of the creator(s) then the buyer can; over time, do what every they want with their new purchase.

All Good Things Must Come To An End.

 

Darren,

Congrats with the Sale. I'm sure it's worth it.

It's been over 4 1/2 years since I first registered with SL and to this day, I still lurk around this site.

When is the Celebration Party!.

 

Oh well, this was bound to happen.

Hopefully this company will put SL on some really fast servers so we don't have those slow loading pages during peak hours.

 

Hopefully in August, Wes...

Tom

 

Scion corp checks here, the forum even has a section for anyone from sales to corporate to communicate in.

Scion also has their own offical forums for anyone really concerned about contacting them.