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Tempest
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PostPosted: Mon May 17, 2004 6:43 pm Reply with quote
This just cracks me up so much that I felt the need to share it with more people.

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Hello,

I can pay you USD 1000 for animenewsnetwork.com
Please reply if you are interested.

Best Regards,

Parcon LLC
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littlegreenwolf



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PostPosted: Mon May 17, 2004 6:52 pm Reply with quote
Lol, doesn't it cost more then 1000 a month for the servers or something?
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Godaistudios



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PostPosted: Mon May 17, 2004 6:52 pm Reply with quote
That's hilarious... now if he added about two or three zeros to that offer, he might have something. Smile
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Haiseikoh 1973



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PostPosted: Mon May 17, 2004 7:09 pm Reply with quote
Maybe he snapped up animenewsnetwork.net or animenewsnetwork.tv or something like that, and is trying to get the coveted .com version.
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Steventheeunuch





PostPosted: Mon May 17, 2004 8:34 pm Reply with quote
I bid 1050
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Nagisa
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PostPosted: Mon May 17, 2004 8:38 pm Reply with quote
I got...$5. Will that be enough?
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Shiki MSHTS



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PostPosted: Mon May 17, 2004 8:46 pm Reply with quote
I can buy you a soda. Very Happy

Although, my sister once had this one HUGE fansite on this one boy band which was really popular (more so than the offical site). It was huge, and she spent hours on end on it. However, the whole "hidden" purpose behind the site was to make money off of it. She ended up making like... $1000 ish off the first year, then sold it to 3 girls for $600. The funny thing is, even after that, she still continued to work on it with them, and got all the advertising money as well. And she did the whole thing somehow with out using a pay server (til the later days). I guess that was in the days where server space was cheap and close to unlimited. =P
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Animefreak08



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PostPosted: Mon May 17, 2004 9:01 pm Reply with quote
littlegreenwolf wrote:
Lol, doesn't it cost more then 1000 a month for the servers or something?
Who pays for that?! Razz (I don't know sh*t about pay servers...I use free servers! Rolling Eyes )
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littlegreenwolf



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PostPosted: Tue May 18, 2004 8:14 am Reply with quote
Animefreak08 wrote:
littlegreenwolf wrote:
Lol, doesn't it cost more then 1000 a month for the servers or something?
Who pays for that?! Razz (I don't know sh*t about pay servers...I use free servers! Rolling Eyes )


Free servers can't give you enough bandwidth, and litter your website with popups. It's annoying. Paying is worth it.
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Cassandra



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PostPosted: Tue May 18, 2004 8:56 am Reply with quote
littlegreenwolf wrote:
Animefreak08 wrote:
littlegreenwolf wrote:
Lol, doesn't it cost more then 1000 a month for the servers or something?
Who pays for that?! Razz (I don't know sh*t about pay servers...I use free servers! Rolling Eyes )


Free servers can't give you enough bandwidth, and litter your website with popups. It's annoying. Paying is worth it.


Depends on the site. I know of one free site that doesn't have popups and it has unlimited bandwidth. The problem comes that it runs veryvery slowly. (I'm using the site for my high school alumni webpage at the moment.)
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PostPosted: Tue May 18, 2004 3:14 pm Reply with quote
littlegreenwolf wrote:
Lol, doesn't it cost more then 1000 a month for the servers or something?


Or something.

That was a very rough estimate I gave at AX2003 about the total cost to run ANN. It included everything, not just the servers.

The amount is very much out of date, but I did recently calculate the cost of operating ANN's servers, including amortizied cost of the purchases, and it wasn't quite $1000 a month.

This time however I wasn't including any costs except the servers.
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Animefreak08



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PostPosted: Tue May 18, 2004 3:35 pm Reply with quote
But who pays for the server charges? Confused
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Mr Mania



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PostPosted: Tue May 18, 2004 3:37 pm Reply with quote
ANN host's advertisements remember, its not as if they are a non-profit organisation.
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Hotaru



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PostPosted: Tue May 18, 2004 3:59 pm Reply with quote
How funny,

the webmaster at www.residentevilfan.com got the exact same email...new scam, i guess
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Animefreak08



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PostPosted: Tue May 18, 2004 4:46 pm Reply with quote
Mr Mania wrote:
ANN host's advertisements remember, its not as if they are a non-profit organisation.

Wow i.RO must be paying them a lot! Anime smallmouth + sweatdrop Anime hyper
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