Selling Databases, is it right to do so?

[Martee]

Selling databases is a big thing in the forum world, you will regularly see people selling their forum databases to people with wads of cash looking to inflate their own forum with posts and whatnot. Personally though, I dislike this practise a lot. I don't feel it is right for a forum I signed up on to be effectively selling my information to another party.

I cannot tell you the amount of emails I have from forums that I have never actually 'signed up' to just because the owner thought to sell the database. I thinks it wrong anyway, how about you?

 

[xpl0iter]

Same here. I don't like the idea of it. Its like cheating all the active members over the forum which is being sold. It also raises the question, what is the buyer indent to do with the database? The seller might never know. Spamming, Phishing emails, and a lot more can happen.

 

[Soulwatcher1]

That's outright down and dirty, I can see selling a forum and merging forums. But to sell a database and still keep the original forum up is complete bull crap.

Greg

 

[Sam1]

It is pretty dirty and it's really only used to get that little bit of extra profit out of a venture. Say you're selling a free hosting site with a forum. You could then sell the forum database and make quite a bit more money. I'd hate it if I were a member though. :nolike: