- City
- Dexter
- State
- MI
I don't always post these inquiries about companies wanting to buy CJ-8.com, but this one hit different because they specifically mention that they've tried before and are trying yet again. I actually got another follow up on this follow up from them this morning and that's what spurred this post.
This happens a rather shocking (in my opinion) number of times a year.
This forum has always been a labor of love and is not run for profit, we just want to cover the costs of running things, which now includes hosting all of the photos in posts here locally. This is how we escaped the fate of so many forums when Photobucket pulled the plug--immediately removing millions of photos from forums across the internet and basically ruining them.
We have never burdened the forum with ads, don't have those annoying text link ads and we have made our free membership level quite usable by other forums' standards. When we went to the new "professional" hosting platform and did the software upgrade, we took on a new level of cost for hosting and support, so we made the hard decision to revamp the forum membership levels, which hadn't been touched since the forum started all the way back in 2002.
We want people to see the value in the forum, the information we have here and the effort we go through to keep it running well and decide for themselves that it's worth supporting. We don't want to punish people to try to drive them to join as paid members.
Anyway, there's no interest in selling, we're proud of what we have here and we deeply thank all of our great members who have helped with various paid memberships over time. Without y'all, we couldn't still be here together.
Anyone who finds value here as a free member and looking for ways to support the forum, the cost is still WELL less than a tank of gas per year. Please consider upgrading to a paid membership: https://www.cj-8.com/account/upgrades
This happens a rather shocking (in my opinion) number of times a year.
This forum has always been a labor of love and is not run for profit, we just want to cover the costs of running things, which now includes hosting all of the photos in posts here locally. This is how we escaped the fate of so many forums when Photobucket pulled the plug--immediately removing millions of photos from forums across the internet and basically ruining them.
We have never burdened the forum with ads, don't have those annoying text link ads and we have made our free membership level quite usable by other forums' standards. When we went to the new "professional" hosting platform and did the software upgrade, we took on a new level of cost for hosting and support, so we made the hard decision to revamp the forum membership levels, which hadn't been touched since the forum started all the way back in 2002.
We want people to see the value in the forum, the information we have here and the effort we go through to keep it running well and decide for themselves that it's worth supporting. We don't want to punish people to try to drive them to join as paid members.
Anyway, there's no interest in selling, we're proud of what we have here and we deeply thank all of our great members who have helped with various paid memberships over time. Without y'all, we couldn't still be here together.
Anyone who finds value here as a free member and looking for ways to support the forum, the cost is still WELL less than a tank of gas per year. Please consider upgrading to a paid membership: https://www.cj-8.com/account/upgrades