it's a buyout!

[moog]

From Gene Poynter:

Would you be interested in selling your forum? If so get back to me with the price you'd be willing to sell your forums for.

i have replied that we will sell for £500, but that we CAN negotiate if that's too high.

[Jimmy]

Only 500?

I thought we were worth more than that... although the cheesebin would bring it down a fair bit! :D

That's hilarious. Try to string it along as far as you can!

[Irvine Black]

Good Lord, what would he do with them? I dread to think.

[Jimmy]

Good Lord, what would he do with them?

There sure are some weird fetishes out there...

[Thomp]

This could potentially be the best e-mail stupidness so far, keep it going for as long as possible moog

[Timmeh]

Wait for her to pay then give her a copy of the sql database, tell her to go nuts.

[woobi]

Show her the cheese bin, she'll change her mind soon enough.

[WraithMaster]

Wait for her to pay then give her a copy of the sql database, tell her to go nuts.
I love being able to understand SQL jokes now...

Also, this is the first instance I've ever heard of where someone wants to buy a forum. Must be too lazy to build their own.

[bionic sheep]

I'll give you 20p and a packet of winegums, and that's my final offer!

[Mr Salek]

Does that mean that we would go into slavery?

[Mercury126]

500? I would have said it was worth a lot more than that, like 5000 or so

[katt]

he must want to try and harness the power of babble as a new energy source

[Pilk Man]

I love being able to understand SQL jokes now...
Explain please :nana:

Moog, tell her you'll swap the forum for her legs.

[Zhyl]

I think she meant the forum in Greece. Moog got it for christmas last year.

[T-Bear]

What would they do with a £500 forum?

[sirch]

1) Impose Laws
2) Ban all the existing members eliminating Chezbin filth
3) Sell Advertising
4) ?????
5) Profit

[moog]

a reply!

From the lovely Gene:

I believe I can afford 500 Pounds.
followed swiftly by:

Will you sell your forums for £500?
I like Gene, he is a direct businessman with an eye for closing a deal. No dilly dallying for him!

Well, I shall reply.

Hi Gene

upon further consideration, and due to your hard-nosed nogotiation skills, we have decided to sell our forums based on the number of members.

We have 18746 members and consider them to be worth no more than six pence each.

18746 x 0.06 = £1124.76

I hope this slight increase has not affected matters too much - should be no problem for a multinational conglomerate such as yourself!

regards

[Smartie]

only 6p pence eh?
Well, maybe the people with reds are worth less than those with greens :D

[Soma]

Not much of a barterer haggler. (That was the word I was after, not barterer)

[albie_123]

6 PENCE

6 PENCE

Boy if I knew how much a pence was worth I might be steaming right now

[Smartie]

6 pence (UK stirling) =

11 cents (USD)
0.13 cents (Canadian dollar)
0.09 cents (Euros)
3.02 Russian Rouble

[albie_123]

You skipped my currency!

[sirch]

Sell while the markets at a high!

[piemastermike]

hmm, I'd say that it sounds like a fair price. And for that SQL database he would be getting 18,000 email addresses that spam could be routed to. Sounds like a fucking great deal to me! SELL FOR MORE.

[sirch]

You skipped my currency!

According to XE.com

6 Pence (Sterling) = 0.17 Cents (NewZealand Dollars)

[Zhyl]

Wow, the things I could do with six moneys...

[Sebas]

Cool, my market value has quadrupled since last month.

[Flava Dave]

I think he meant that 6p would be the average price of all the forum folk. Most of you are worth far, far less. :)

[Sebas]

I think he meant that 6p would be the average price of all the forum folk. Most of you are worth far, far less. :)
Good thing you are here to raise the average then.

[T-Bear]

How many M&M's can you get with 6p? I want to know my worth in food stuffs....

[WraithMaster]

This is an outrage! I am definitely worth less than that...:eng101:

[Bewildebeast]

From what I've read on the internets, people seem to value their opinions at 2 cents apiece. Assuming a post:opinion ratio of 1:1, the forums are worth 19,753.72 Yankee dollars.

KER-CHING

[dinnerbone]

From what I've read on the internets, people seem to value their opinions at 2 cents apiece. Assuming a post:opinion ratio of 1:1, the forums are worth 19,753.72 Yankee dollars.

KER-CHING
That would be 2,334,889.7 yen. Which is a bigger number, so that means a bigger KER-CHING.

[moog]

My partner Daniel Saltman has emailed you, he will finalize the deal and pay you the money.

Gene
eep!

NOW WHAT???

[edit] This now!

I was referred to you from a friend who said you were intrested in selling. I am very intrested in your site, and was wondering if you could msg me back any details.
The price I was quoted is 2100 USD.
( 18746 (users) x 0.06 = £1124.76 = 2,104.65 USD )

If you are ready to move forward, Let me know if you have a AIM or MSN account, and we can discuss more.
saints preserve us!

I have replied:

Hi Daniel

unfortunately we have reconsidered as we are unsure of your intentions towards our loyal fanbase - for all we know you could have them trussed up like Christmas turkeys before we know it, and then where will we be?

also we neglected to included charges for the use of our moderating team, who are as close to priceless as is possible in today's competitive market.

we wish you and Gene all the best in your plans to take over the internet by acquiring other people's fan bases (a bizarre plan if you ask me! - blackmailing works much better)

yours, the weebls-stuff team

[albie_123]

He never designated which forums.

Make a new forum just for him!

Tailor made with all the best forumites, hand-picked!

And by best, I mean the stupidest spammiest fucktards ever to join!

i realise this means me

[Tweekish]

Good, now I dont have to find another forum to talk rubbish on.

[weebl]

This is probably going to get messy.

I recommend not speaking to them anymore.

[argh]

Oh snap! Moogs general sarcastic nature has gotten him into something quirky! You could make a television sitcom out of this, boy-howdy!

[moog]

This is probably going to get messy.

I recommend not speaking to them anymore.
why do i have the feeling that this is actually bill gates? It would totally explain a lot...

[lachie 7]

I'm scared someone hold me.

[Smartie]

http://img92.imageshack.us/img92/5199/billgxj7.jpg
(Yes it's shit, but at work I have only PAINT)

[Sebas]

Best Carlos thread ever TBH.

[dinnerbone]

The price I was quoted is 2100 USD.
Uhoh, this means you will need to delete 77 and a half users. (He (and/or she) knocked off 4.65 from the total price, that means 77 and a half users)

[Bappel]

This made me lol. Why would anyone want to buy a forum? What might their great plan be? Charge us 5 £ to be able to stay and 20 more to become a priat member(yes they willl change it from ninja to pirat).

Why not sell the cheesebin? Charge them 5 pence for every post ever made in the bin. I think that would turn out to be millions if you sum up all posts ever made there.

[Tweekish]

Uhoh, this means you will need to delete 77 and a half users. (He (and/or she) knocked off 4.65 from the total price, that means 77 and a half users)

How dare he/she!

[Corn_Fest]

This made me lol. Why would anyone want to buy a forum? What might their great plan be? Charge us 5 £ to be able to stay and 20 more to become a priat member(yes they willl change it from ninja to pirat).

Why not sell the cheesebin? Charge them 5 pence for every post ever made in the bin. I think that would turn out to be millions if you sum up all posts ever made there.
Nah, cheesebin wipes = less total cheesebin value

[Gonk]

thank god moog didnt actually sell it! if he was going to i would want at at least:

15 Steak pies
8 chicken pies
3 1/2 apple pies (so long as the half aint nibbled too much


in compensation

[Taysmith]

Sorry to hear this was cut off prematurely :(

[The Grim Reaper]

According to XE.com

6 Pence (Sterling) = 0.17 Cents (NewZealand Dollars)
Albie is from NZ? why did i not know this? Probably because i dont pay attention to absolutely anything at all.

Im glad im worth 17 cents, thats up 7 cents from last i heard, i wonder how many people will invest in me now?

@Mr Fest: Randomly attacking a newbie doesn't really do anything, post count doesn't matter or join date. Its quality of posts that does. (even if that one wasnt the best anyone has seen.

[Macca]

I think you should lease the forum to him/her. At least for a trial period of a week, that would be comedy!

[Hydralisk]

This was utterly unexcpected, yet surprisingly fun

Have you heard back from them Moog?

[moog]

alas no, although he did approach me and offer to buy all the bacteria in my intestinal tract and anything I own that is coloured blue.

what are these people up to???

[Hydralisk]

hmm... a blue fetish eh? I would love to see them out at sea "omfg blue everywheres"

[crab]

it's a penny to a pound this guy is a forumite.

[voiceofcod]

it's a penny to a pound this guy is a forumite.

Just what I was thinking. Last email was too chzbin.

[InstaCpu]

6 pence, 6 pence, 0.13 cents Canadian. Rubbish! Overpriced we are indeed. :)

[Corn_Fest]

it's a penny to a pound this guy is a forumite.
I think it might be Salty.

[esquilax]

I think it might be Salty.

What? That fine, upstanding young fellow?

Yeah, probably. Moog could make quite a bit of money from just selling him all the users he's registered.

[Plastic]

Buy sell, just part of life

[Jimmy]

Albie is from NZ? why did i not know this?

Because he isn't. He's from South Australia, therefore meaning WE STILL DON'T HAVE OUR CURRENCY!

[3v1l |\/|1NiOn]

We all know the national currency of Australia is cans of Fosters and hats with dangly corks.

Duh.

[Smartie]

Because he isn't. He's from South Australia, therefore meaning WE STILL DON'T HAVE OUR CURRENCY!

Shut up, you woman! :)

6 English pee = 0.15 Australian cents

(Based on Exchange rate: 2.46551)

For anyone else who needs to work out how much 6 sodding pee is, the use THIS LINK (http://www.ft.com/home/uk#). Currency convertor link bottom right.

[RevJ42]

We all know the national currency of Australia is cans of Fosters and hats with dangly corks.

Duh.

At which rate, each Forum member is worth 3 cans of foster and a night with Shane Warne.

OH SNAP!

[kotu]

We have 18746 members and consider them to be worth no more than six pence each.

Does this mean I can buy forum members? I could afford at least ten.

[Zhyl]

Does this mean I can buy forum members? I could afford at least ten.

I started a stock market but without points it was all a bit pointless stupid.

[Corn_Fest]

I started a stock market but without points it was all a bit pointless stupid.
I didn't think it was all that bad of an idea.

edit: woo! ninja padawan!

edit2: ninja!

[SPACKlick]

I'm still thoroughly confused as to why people write 6p = 0.13 aus cents as opposed to 6p=13 aus cents or 0.13 aus $ it completley eludes me.

Also I just had a fit in a uni computer room laughing at this thread.

[Smartie]

I'm still thoroughly confused as to why people writ 6p = 0.13 aus cents as opposed to 6p=13 aus cents or 0.13 aus $ it completley elludes me.

also just hat a fit in a uni computer room laughing at this thread.

Because I was going to write dollars, then realised i'd said pence (not pounds), so kept the NZ currency in the same way (ie cents) but forgot to remove the 0.

However, 'pence' is not a currency so technically I ought to have written
0.06 GBP = 0.15 NZD

Your spelling has also completely eluded me today!

[SPACKlick]

apparantly it eluded me to.

[Tanktunker]

the NZ currency
Nazis have a currency?!

...Is that healthy? That that's the first thing I went to when I saw NZ?

[yoda22]

need £20k no questions asked

[Shpox]

What would they do with a £500 forum?

Fill it with Fart Buttons and eye piercing eyes ad's ofcourse :rolleyes:

[RevJ42]

What are the fart buttons? I've never been brave enough to click one. What do they do?

[Alex¿?]

take you to an advertising thing where you can download a joke toolbar thing.... well they say that lol

but it'll be some thing that'll mess up your computer..

[Cactusman]

Tell him 'no' and throw a brick it him. Or her...(does the ol' shifty eyes)

[flapjackboy]

At which rate, each Forum member is worth 3 cans of foster and a night with Shane Warne.

OH SNAP!

So that would convert to a sip of Ruddles and a quick grope of Ian Botham then?