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Re: Problems with Brickshelf?
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lugnet.general
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Date:
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Sun, 15 Jul 2007 15:14:29 GMT
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In lugnet.general, John Patterson wrote:
> In lugnet.general, Tim David wrote:
> > Just been to Brickshelf and it reports
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> > Brickshelf has discontinued operation. We apologize for any inconvenience.
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> > Maj still seems to be up
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> > Tim
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> After reading this thread I am a little confused. I had always thought that the
> ads such as Amazon.com or personal Lego sales such as is on Bricklink paid the
> cost of these sites like Lugnet and Peeron. Peeron asked for donations to speed
> up the site and it was a rather small amount, so do these sites really cost all
> that much to run? And if they were not making a profit of somesort are the
> folks that run them doing it out of their love of Lego? I know that Amazon.com
> pays a lot to sites as a sponser if they put their link to items for sale.
> Is it possible that the owner of BS had health or personal problems that
> precluded his working it and the service was cut. Has anyone given a thought
> that he may be in the hospital or dead?
> I though that sites like this were money makers, albite not cash cows. How
> could one go about buying the site? If it is not a profitable as I would have
> thought, then maybe he would be willing to sell it for a reasonable amount.
> I do not understand why all these sites are free. $10 to lugnet is nothing for
> life time membership. 10 a year would still be cheap.
> Also after reading all these I am reminded of "How does it affect me?" I cannot
> imagine anyone putting all their pictures on a web site and not saving them
> somewhere else. Very poor planning. A box of blank CDs is not all the
> expensive. I trust no one with my files. Something like this might happen.
> John P
Ads dont work unless people click on them.
---
Rick
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| (...) After reading this thread I am a little confused. I had always thought that the ads such as Amazon.com or personal Lego sales such as is on Bricklink paid the cost of these sites like Lugnet and Peeron. Peeron asked for donations to speed up (...) (17 years ago, 15-Jul-07, to lugnet.general)
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