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  • Speculation about why Dpreview was closed.

    From RichA@21:1/5 to All on Tue Mar 28 21:18:28 2023
    So why didn't the millionaires who ran Dpreview (they got rich after being bought) simply take it back to its roots, a conversation site with reviews, etc? Sure, there is a cost, but there would still be advertising, just not perhaps enough to satisfy
    Amazon. Also, the nitwits slack-jawed accepting that it had to die, make me laugh. There are hundreds of forum sites that don't require major incomes to survive. Meanwhile, heh heh, Amazon has 1M employees and Dpreview had 11..."cost cutting." Boo
    hoo, the double-digit growth ended with covid. Morons.

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  • From Whisky-dave@21:1/5 to RichA on Wed Mar 29 03:47:45 2023
    On Wednesday, 29 March 2023 at 05:18:32 UTC+1, RichA wrote:
    So why didn't the millionaires who ran Dpreview (they got rich after being bought) simply take it back to its roots, a conversation site with reviews, etc?

    Because they won't make any money from it.

    Sure, there is a cost, but there would still be advertising, just not perhaps enough to satisfy Amazon. Also, the nitwits slack-jawed accepting that it had to die, make me laugh.

    There are hundreds of forum sites that don't require major incomes to survive.

    So use those.

    Meanwhile, heh heh, Amazon has 1M employees and Dpreview had 11..."cost cutting." Boo hoo, the double-digit growth ended with covid. Morons.

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  • From RichA@21:1/5 to Whisky-dave on Wed Mar 29 17:28:26 2023
    On Wednesday, 29 March 2023 at 06:47:49 UTC-4, Whisky-dave wrote:
    On Wednesday, 29 March 2023 at 05:18:32 UTC+1, RichA wrote:
    So why didn't the millionaires who ran Dpreview (they got rich after being bought) simply take it back to its roots, a conversation site with reviews, etc?
    Because they won't make any money from it.
    Sure, there is a cost, but there would still be advertising, just not perhaps enough to satisfy Amazon. Also, the nitwits slack-jawed accepting that it had to die, make me laugh.

    There are hundreds of forum sites that don't require major incomes to survive.
    So use those.
    Meanwhile, heh heh, Amazon has 1M employees and Dpreview had 11..."cost cutting." Boo hoo, the double-digit growth ended with covid. Morons.

    Amazon is looking for ways to offset the enormous costs of dealing with myriad returns by idiots with infinite buyer's remorse.

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  • From Whisky-dave@21:1/5 to RichA on Thu Mar 30 04:48:36 2023
    On Thursday, 30 March 2023 at 01:28:30 UTC+1, RichA wrote:
    On Wednesday, 29 March 2023 at 06:47:49 UTC-4, Whisky-dave wrote:
    On Wednesday, 29 March 2023 at 05:18:32 UTC+1, RichA wrote:
    So why didn't the millionaires who ran Dpreview (they got rich after being bought) simply take it back to its roots, a conversation site with reviews, etc?
    Because they won't make any money from it.
    Sure, there is a cost, but there would still be advertising, just not perhaps enough to satisfy Amazon. Also, the nitwits slack-jawed accepting that it had to die, make me laugh.

    There are hundreds of forum sites that don't require major incomes to survive.
    So use those.
    Meanwhile, heh heh, Amazon has 1M employees and Dpreview had 11..."cost cutting." Boo hoo, the double-digit growth ended with covid. Morons.
    Amazon is looking for ways to offset the enormous costs of dealing with myriad returns by idiots with infinite buyer's remorse.

    How is that connected to Dpreview unless it;s linked to the advertising.
    It's not like amazon advertise anything themselves is it.

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