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Old Jul 19, 2007 | 11:29 PM
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What are your thoughts ?
Old Jul 19, 2007 | 11:42 PM
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were you trying to get to your 50th post to sell something
Old Jul 19, 2007 | 11:57 PM
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The world revolves around money....
Old Jul 19, 2007 | 11:59 PM
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wow get with this millenium....last time i checked everything was about MAKING MONEY!
Old Jul 20, 2007 | 12:00 AM
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Q: Why did Internet Brands buy ScionLife?
A: Internet Brands’ mission is to empower consumers to make better decisions about buying and maintaining their most important purchases, such as cars and homes. ScionLife’s users offer outstanding advice and support for Scion owners and shoppers, newbies and veterans alike, which should be a very good fit with the rest of the Internet Brands Automotive sites.

Q: Will ScionLife become part of another Internet Brand site?
A: Internet Brands plans to keep ScionLife a separate, thriving site and to continue expanding its content, community and traffic.

Q: Are Darren and Troy going to continue at ScionLife?
A: Yes. They will continue their current level of involvement on the site and in the community.

Q: What changes can we expect to see on ScionLife?
A: It's hard to predict far into the future, but for the time being, ScionLife will remain essentially unchanged. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. The main near-term addition you’ll probably notice is that Internet Brands will figure out with Darren and Troy the most logical places to put links to relevant content on other IB Automotive sites. Beyond that, Internet Brands plans to brainstorm with the admins and moderators of ScionLife about improvements that would make the site more useful.

Q: How will the acquisition help ScionLife?
A: The main benefit will be having more infrastructure and technology resources behind the site. Better servers and hardware will mean better performance for the site and admin tools. And more technology resources will mean faster bug-fixes, quicker turnaround on site changes and more frequent updates in site software, like vBulletin or photo-posting applications.
Basically it says the site will stay the same, there will become more staff, and better servers.... hate it if you must, but I like the idea of more staff and better servers.
Old Jul 20, 2007 | 12:03 AM
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I'm sure Darren will sell it to you for the same price as them!
Old Jul 20, 2007 | 12:17 AM
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I agree with Teare. If they can't produce enough revenue without selling out then they should have redrawn their business model. This was a quick way out.
Old Jul 20, 2007 | 12:22 AM
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Originally Posted by Yanki01
were you trying to get to your 50th post to sell something
Why can I sell something after 50? Yeah maybe my TC
Old Jul 20, 2007 | 12:38 AM
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It's just one business being sold to another business. AFAIK IB seems to have an ok reputation... so I guess hopefully nothing will change except faster servers!
Old Jul 20, 2007 | 12:54 AM
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i'm all for faster servers!!! they better be hawt lookin so they'll get a good tip!!!
Old Jul 20, 2007 | 05:01 AM
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Whoever started this site has worked hard to bring it to the successful point of right now.

His/her investment has paid off I guess. Good job.
Old Jul 20, 2007 | 07:43 AM
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Even ScionLife isn't safe from becoming hosts for corporate greed.
Old Jul 20, 2007 | 08:06 AM
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I don't know if any of you have noticed, but the site has ads on it. Google ads and ads from sponsers. Does everyone think the site was run for free as a public service? At some point in any successful business it is necessary to "go public" so to speak. If Darren made some money out of this--good for him--that is the American Dream is it not?
Old Jul 20, 2007 | 12:16 PM
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We don't need another thread on this.
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