Oh my lord The Diesel Place

McRat

McRat

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Here's a better analogy than Walmart.

You decide to build a drag truck. You don't have a truck, or the know-how to build it, but you DO have a garage to build it in. So you get a bunch of your friends together, and they all chip in for free to build it. In fact, they do over 95% of the work. When it's done, you sell it without even asking any of the helpers if they would be interested in buying it.

Then to add injury to insult, the new owners plaster Tampon and Toyota stickers all over it, and even convince some of the helpers to keep working for free on it, even though it will never race again, it's now just a billboard.

Would the helpers have just cause to be pissed? Damn right.
 
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MACKIN

MACKIN

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McRat said:
Here's a better analogy than Walmart.

You decide to build a drag truck. You don't have a truck, or the know-how to build it, but you DO have a garage to build it in. So you get a bunch of your friends together, and they all chip in for free to build it. In fact, they do over 95% of the work. When it's done, you sell it without even asking any of the helpers if they would be interested in buying it.

Then to add injury to insult, the new owners plaster Tampon and Toyota stickers all over it, and even convince some of the helpers to keep working for free on it, even though it will never race again, it's now just a billboard.

Would the helpers have just cause to be pissed? Damn right.
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Perfect! :thumb:
 
496 BB

496 BB

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dmaxlover said:
How is that different than any business in the world? Would Walmart be in business today without their employees? Of coarse not! Do the employees have a say who, when, where, why the owners sold? Again, of coarse not.

It was Nicks business period. He didn't like the forum that was available at the time, so he went out and started his own. Everybody has the opportunity to quit what their doing and start their own. Kind of like what you guys did here, so why bitch about it?
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100 grit or 50 grit?

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Sledhead

Sledhead

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Informative AND entertaining BUT I've got to get back to the twins.

BTW, I've been here since that first tampon ad, this works me :thumb:
 
dmaxlover

dmaxlover

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I'm sure as hell not defending Nick or the dieselplace, just playing a little devils advocate. Maybe he didn't contribute a ton of tech, but he knew enough to build the "garage", get a good collective group of guys together, and turn a little no name site into the largest diesel site on the net. Could he of done it without us? Nope. Did he hold a gun to peoples heads for funding? Nope. Did he force people to post tech? Nope. Could he of made a better decision when selling? Yep. I hope he made a ton of money and is living large while the rest of us sit here and bitch about the past.
 
Noreaster

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Wasn't there talk of the membership numbers inflating on DP before the sale?

I bet there's more members that have signed up & haven't been on for years than ones that use the site.
 
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