A few good things about that other XXX board is you can write your own custom title, bring your GFY post count with you and there are quite a few less trolls and time wasting posts :2 cents:

It is a cash cow so to speak. It requires very little resources, very little human resources as well. It does sell 35-50 big banner spots easily each month and many are on 3, 6, or 12 month contracts and range from 2k to almost 4k a month. There are also about 50+ buttons and most of those go for 300 or more a month.

70k a month in big banners
15k a month in small banners

85k a month without counting any skins.
1 million and change alone in banners.

The webmaster access shows would just be valid tax deductible expenses.
Would imagine the backyard parties would come along with it - which has to be a huge profit item.

Any buying company will have a accounting sheet and easily see the Expense & Income lines for this board. It would stand out like a sore thumb.

Then we are not even thinking about other ways that they could add money to this board. Ask around how many would pay a monthly fee for a pure certified business section and what they would pay for example.

I don't know what multiple of earnings would be used to determine a purchase price. It is a declining revenue asset, correct?

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If they don't want it,I'm sure there are plenty of other interested parties that do

98% profit? 1 - 2 million per year? They couldn't afford to keep the moderator (ICE) that did all the work? Please.

Just turn t into a huge illegal tube its all surfers anyway why waste a good 3 letter dot com

Nobody throws away money.

A little birdey told me when the purchase is completed the forums will be left intact with the exception being everyones post count and register date will be reset.

Playboy has been throwing away money for YEARS!

I have seen other situations in mainstream where an old forum gets sold as part of a package and the new owners have no clue how to run it or the culture of the forum and it ends up getting killed off through mismanagement... hopefully the new owners see the importance of keeping the people around that understand the forum to run it :2 cents:

They'll probably just sell it to the highest bidder since the only thing they care about is that bunny logo, and how many hats and t-shirts they can put it on to license to other stores. What I'd be really curious to see is if they immediately shut down the magazine, since you can't give it away.

Shit, you haven't been able to give away a copy of Playboy since somewhere around 2005, with a few exceptions. When we were carrying Playboy in my old porn stores the only time it ever sold is when some celebrity of varying degree was posing in it, and the highest selling copies were when a female pro wrestler was posing naked. Every time a female pro wrestler was on the cover I would order extra copies, and they would ALWAYS sell out. The highest selling issues of Playboy I can remember since early 2000 were Sable (twice), Chyna (twice), Torrie Wilson, and Candice Michelle, all from the WWE. What's even funnier is those were all huge sellers, and last month a female wrestler from TNA Wrestling, Tracy Brooks, had a nude pictorial, and the new idiot editor decides he doesn't want Playboy associated with pro wrestling, so he moves her pictorial from the magazine to the Cyber Club. Is it any wonder they are a sinking ship?

it's not a cash cow for a company that does 60+million in annual sales, by the definition most business people think of the term-
far from a cash cow for playboy.

Yes someone finally said it:thumbsup

GFY is a bunch of crap lately. Nobody needs it much, anyway. Well, sometimes it gets useful. At other times it's bullshit.

yah, nothing like an informative & useful *check out this flamethrower* thread eh.

Playboy has a good run. The mods were extremely tolerable to all of the adult webmaster community.

I wonder who is gonna dominate the adult webmaster forum landscape. There is gonna be a war for who is gonna by the next GFY.

yes cause playboy dont own this, eric does dumbass :321GFY

Really??? and when did Eric buy it ?:2 cents:

WTF!

http://www.gofuckyourself.com/image....ine=1257985975

also huge potential for lawsuits :2 cents:

lol - a heavy hand will just make everyone leave and fast.

No to mention the advertising they do here for Adult.com and benefit they get from that by making Adult.com more money too.

Lot's of ways this site makes the parent company a lot of money.

if one looks at the financial statement, they would find playboy has been losing millions of dollars every quarter. the assumed $300,000/quarter gfy generates has virtually zero impact on the bottomline of playboy.

hardly a cash cow for the parent company. let's double the assumption, $600k/quarter and playboy is still losing ~$6 million every 3 months. gfy is a blip on the earning report radar of playboy.


selling it would net the playboy owners a few million and it would be a potential cash cow for the new owners but they would still have to earn the buy money back.

Dyna mo... do you know the difference between SALES and PROFIT ???? The parent company may do 60 million in SALES but it might have cost the parent company 70 million to make those sales. The damn thing you quoted about cash cows says PROFIT not sales. Give it up already and spend a little more time reading and understanding instead of trying to argue. :2 cents:

What you quoted actually explains GFY to the tee. " This profit far exceeds the amount necessary to maintain the cash cow business, and the excess is used by the business for other purposes. "

LOL that is what is happening, the money they are making from GFY is probably going to pay the bills to keep the lights on at the mansion and to help pay a lot of other people's salaries ;)

Jesus christ you are thick and hung up on the term cash cow. Who the fuck cares if it is called a cash cow, or pink cow. The point being if they are losing money on all of their other assets/companies and they are making profit on this one, then it will fucking matter to them and it is important. It is the only one making money. God damn i have no more patience for you, i'm out of this thread. :upsidedow:Oh crap

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh like fish in a barrel.

classic. you left out the key to the term.


will, i never asked for a lesson, so spare me the elitist bullshit like you are a financial wizard. you assume way too much.

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