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Heatwave! 1st July 2015 1:16 PM

Excellent - been down to Southbourne a few times over the years.  A beach would be good now however, I'm stuck inside!

Oh what a night.... 22nd June 2015 8:02 PM

If it were anybody else yes!!  Hope your luck soon starts to turn for the better...

Good work Steve - glad to hear it's taking off!   It's all about finding that niche that you can see will take off to help burn the fire a bit more!

.....Well it's been a fascinating process, with plenty of trips to Edinburgh which has got to be said, is an incredibly beautiful city if anyone hasn't been. I'm determined now to go up in non work mode and do some proper site seeing with the family.....

 

Yes, totally agree with you on that.  Edinburgh is in my top 5 favourite cities in the world and a lot nearer than the other four (if interested, San Francisco, Melbourne, Vientiane, Vancouver)!!

Oh what a night.... 20th June 2015 1:01 PM

It's shocking Barney, shame it's not a happy ending!  

Don't let it take too much more of your time though, sometime it's just not worth it.

What's in a name... change... 19th June 2015 11:28 AM

Bizarrely, I happened to be watching Watchdog last night and they discussed this.  If interested you can see it here about 11mins 30secs in.   Clearly this one is an extreme example....    (I hope)!  

Ideal Engines changed and became Replacement Engines right next door, using same stock.  

Top Gear looking for applicants to co-host with Chris Evans.

They will surely be unindated with applicants who will have a dubious connection with cars, but anyway if you're interested (as stated on the above link)....

  • Applicants must be over 16.
  • They should talk direct to camera.
  • Videos should be shot "from the waist up".
  • Cars should not feature in the video.
  • No stunts.
  • No gimmicks.
  • Entrants must be knowledgeable about cars "because Top Gear has to have an authenticity".
  • The video must be no longer than 30 seconds. "If it is, we won't watch it."

It'll be interesting to see if it ends up being somebody we all know or whether somebody is plucked out from the masses...... 

Oh what a night.... 17th June 2015 5:00 PM

Gripping stuff....    ...beats any TV drama.   Hope the next episode ends well!

I'm sure an old member (Tomsk) who hasn't posted for a while raised a similar topic but I can't find it!!  Anyway, it's good to have Barney's view and I would tend to agree - it makes sense in the long term to have ownership - certainly at £300 / month.

Having said that, there may be others who do like the idea of temporarily renting a site (if the pricing is right).  However, if customers remember the site name and go back to it at a later date to only discover that they're speaking to another company who's renting it they may be confused/reluctant to proceed.

Another point to consider, would you be willing to sell the domain if they want to stop renting and purchase?

At the end of the day, I'd suggest doing some more more market research and hopefully some other (non-webby! ) people on this forum will give their views too...

Finally - presuming you got to page 1 of Google, what would you tell those people who genuinely want a plumber before you've rented out the site to a plumber company....   ...or (thinking as I type ) I guess you put no contact details on! 

ello - did I miss something ;-) 

.......plus it is an archaic system last time I saw it 
 

Yes - agree, not very user friendly.  I wonder if they're sending post to targetted areas.