I need your opinion...

[Mopar1973Man]

What do you guys think?

[flagmanruss]

I think largely Mike & his support IS the forum. It would not be the same without you. Unless Mike would be hired to run it. There is a lot of value in the comradery & thoughts & ideas that members bring to the table... but would they be here without Mike's participation? I don't think so. I wouldn't blame Mike for cashing in... but a year from now, it won't be recognizeable. Just saying...Russ

[diesel4life]

I agree with Russ. This site is different than any other Ive seen to date. Theres a level of respect here that you just dont see for various reasons on other sites. And then theres the depth of knowledge youve brought to the forum. There are lots of people on here with a wealth of knowledge, but theres only one person that started everything here. I dont know you but this forum seems like a reflection of you. Take that away from the equation and the whole chemistry changes. If you have personal reasons for wanting to get out from under it, I and probably everyone else could respect your decision. But I agree with Russ, it wont be the same witrhout ya.

[Mopar1973Man]

Don't worry guys... I'm not selling but I wanted a unbiased answer.

[Mopar1973Man]

What shocked me was the email came to me. So like I've always done was drop the information back in the family room here for everyone to discuss. I think is wonderful to see the different comments from you guys flagmanruss & diesel4life. Then I saw the concern of me bailing out. Just to reassure you all I'm not bailing out, I'm not selling out. I've seen what happens to corporate owned site they turn into a Google Ad's pit. But I think its wonderful to know that larger corporate sites think that this site is valuable to them. Makes me feel good that I built up this site to the point that corporates think its got potential. Great! I'll continue doing what I'm doing.

[MoparMom]

Never

[diesel4life]

I was wondering who just decides to buy a forum... that explains alot. Did you tell him thanks but :moon:

[Mopar1973Man]

Simply told him I had to decline his offer. Business like. Actually... You know I was thinking your response.

[Wild and Free]

If it was a 6 figure offer and you kept 51% stake and kept control of decisions why not...............

Come on you know it folks, EVERYTHING has a price.

[Mopar1973Man]

If it was a 6 figure offer and you kept 51% stake and kept control of decisions why not...............

Come on you know it folks, EVERYTHING has a price.

Sorry... Not biting... (religious side of me) "Greed is the root of all evil." I've lived a very humble life so far why would I change now? Then everyone loses. I do what I do because I enjoy helping people out the best I can. It's not about profit or money it about putting smiles on faces and seeing their truck rolling down the road.

Then there is other factors I've enjoyed learning. Like managing people. Yes. It something you might not think of but there is a certain level of people management involved in the site and handling people that are upset, confused, scared, worried, etc. I work with all the emotions and still keep them moving forward through there issues working with limitations of the person and skill level. Then being tossed back and visualize what is going on in my mind and figure out problems with pure logic.

Why would I give up on a site for a one time payment? Foolish and wreckless. Like ISX thread where we are getting together and telling him to move on and teach himself. Well at the same time I'm teaching myself new skills not only in Diesel Stuff but Web Stuff too. It goes on and on.

You guys are enjoying the end results of what is produced here. I try and listen and produce what your looking for the best I can. So far I rarely here a boo from most of you about problems of issues. So I must be doing things the right way.

So once again I'm still holding my ground and not selling even if the price was big enough.

[CSM]

Please don't sell. I love this place. I would rather go complete paysite than lose M73M.com, and really mike? You might as well have called it Mike Nelson.com

[ISX]

I have been stepping it way up ever since going on brake over xmas. Mike and I were on the phone a few hours ago and talking about stuff I was figuring out. So after seeing this thread I got up and took a pic of everything around me to show you guys that I wouldn't do this for any other forum. You guys really inspire me. And yes there will be plenty of new spreadsheets going around as I figure these formulas out.

If this place sells, I swear I'll buy a duramax

[diesel4life]

If this place sells, I swear I'll buy a duramax

[CUMMINSDIESELPWR]

just saw this thread, my input is ive seen sites owned by good people privately like mike owned this site and they sold their sites. not a couple months later theres spam and ads everywhere, you get biased bully moderators with god complexes and the site goes to heck in a handbasket fast.i like this place, great mature people and great wealth of knowledge.

[98whitelightnin]

I would bet my membership that the new owner would NOT post his phone number up so we could call him all hours of the day! I like it here because its different than any other forum I am on, we are a family.

[bh115577]

I spend most of my time reading and not posting as I have more to learn than share. I'm glad that there isn't any of the bashing that goes on at other forums for a question that maybe someone just doesn't understand for some reason. Glad you're not selling but I couldn't blame someone for doing it if it was the right thing to do at the time. Who knows, if there wasn't a no compete agreement and the check was big enough, you could do it again only bigger, if you felt it was necessary, with all the bells and whistles you ever wanted.

[Mopar1973Man]

Who knows, if there wasn't a no compete agreement and the check was big enough, you could do it again only bigger, if you felt it was necessary, with all the bells and whistles you ever wanted.

But would it attract the right type of crowd? I've always been the type to help the common Joe crowd not the race nuts, dyno queens, etc. How would more money make it better?

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[ISX]

Where's the appraisal document

[Mopar1973Man]

Where's the appraisal document

That thought had crossed my mind at one point to find out what its worth. But here we come back around. How do you put a price tag on families and friendship? I know the site has a resale value of some sort I'm not sure what its worth at all. Being the site actually started way back in 2004 as frontiernet.net/~mopar1973man then moved to several other free hosting sites till 2007 when I purchased the domain. So there is history only I know of most of you didn't even know of. Mopar1973Man.com start out as just being a collection of HTML files that was my notebook. My internet life started at dieseltruckresource.com back in 2004 and that was the birth of Mopar1973Man as a name and website because the whole idea of the website was to save me from typing the same answer over and over. It wasn't till somewhere in 2007 when I started my first forum on PHPbb 3.0.0 we gain about 110 or so members in 2 years time. Then after purchasing the domain I purchased vBulletin 3.8.6 and ran it till 4.0.0 was released. Wasn't long ago I converted all the HTML over to Joomla so all members are now capable of entering a article now once your account is created. This relieved me of a huge overhead of constant HTML creation and editing. So here we are in the present time and larger corporate is interested in the site because of the traffic and membership base. This site its like a part of me like a child you raised from birth. You watch it grow and change with time. Then all you are like extended family to me. I just can't find a reason or want to even sell even for a 6 digit number... Call me crazy but this is my family and I can't sell out on you!

[jlwelding]

I been gone for a while but Da-- dont scare the s--- out of when I come back