Well maybe need to start a new forum if this is going to be an issue going forward.
Vendors don't either, the plethora of ads plastered on every spare pixel pay for it. Yea they pay but it's not really enough to make much impact. And to say a proper group buy is just wrong. Most forum groups buys are organized by members, not vendors.
That could be since I don't really know how much vendors pay for membership. I just assumed it was a fairly small amount.
This brings up another question. Who, exactly, does run this site? Who is benefiting from the ad/vendor revenue that it is generating?
Likely a company. Whoever it is didn't clean up the links on the main page of the website (before the forum) and they link both to a generic page for the theme they're using for the website as well as to the JL Wrangler Forums' Terms and Conditions instead of ours.
Someone figured out how to make money by selling ads and facilitating the sale of car parts. I say more power to them! Though I doubt a single forum covers it's own expenses.
If you look up the the LLC, there's a few actual addresses that are in Irvine, CA. No idea what's actually going on.That address is also the same as the UPS store
The Admin clearly stated in a shut down post it has to be arraigned by a vendor or someone affiliated with the vendor. Therefore a member posting on behalf is affiliated. So them not the rules.
I've got zero problem with somebody making a buck off their ownership of this forum. After all, they're the ones who had the foresight to set the whole thing up. I've just been a wee bit uncomfortable with rules (reasonable though they may be in most cases) coming down from on high, with no indication anywhere on this site of who it is that hands down these rules. A little transparency can be comforting.That address is also the same as the UPS store
You need to pay the vendor tax which I believe they have not done, so the āvendorā isnāt considered a vendor in this situation. Still the rules.
