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| Originally Posted by CCamper ...or he's getting paid to post!  |
Now
there's an acorn of an idea for a new
business model in "how to run a yachting forum profitably" which Carl might want to consider...?!
Let's just start off with a basic premise: that
someone, somewhere, during the course of 2006, actually purchased a pre-owned 100ft+ yacht or even ordered a new-building,
based primarily on what he (or she) had learned within YachtForums. Or am I just being wildly optimistic here or something?
I'll admit that I'm an optimistic sort of guy (until the Ø250 metre asteroid that we don't know about and noone's been tracking hits us
uhmmm, tonight probably), so I reckon that some yacht broker or builder somewhere
fairly owes YachtForums at least a
5% sales commission on the sale of one $10 million yacht. Which is $500,000. Carl could keep 1/3rd for himself, another 1/3rd for running costs of the website and then distribute the remaining 1/3rd to
the rest of us...?!
Having seriously considered all the various methods by which YachtForums might obtain the sums due from the nefarious yacht brokers / builders in question, I came to the conclusion that the only method which stands a chance of working is this one:
Which is that
all of the major yacht brokers / builders henceforth subscribe to the new
YachtForums Fund (based in the Bahamas), on an entirely voluntary basis. This will ensure that any criticisms expressed by
senior members on these forums is done so on a wholly constructive basis. And when it comes to discussion of non-contributors, let's all just bear in mind that according to a very old Coca Cola survey,
negative comments reach a 10-fold audience...
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Long way to go 
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