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Not Looking good for hotboat :(

Saw the writing on the wall. From the "hostile take over/buy out" to running off all it's forums members to selling the magazine and website on Craigs list. Sh!t has not looked good for them for about a year now.

OSO has it's issues for sure, but nothing compared to Hotboat!!
 
honestly i haven't payed much attention lately can some one put the "readers digest" version up of what is going on?
 
safa 1 said:
**** i just listed my boat and my golf cart on OSO, whats issues are they having
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James, OSO'S fine...What do you want for that pimp golf cart!? Love that thing!


Dave, Larry Flynt publications originally owned Hotboat. Two brothers (forget their names) were going to buy it and one of the brothers kind've screwed the other out of it (from what I've heard). The other brother started Performance boats forums/magazine. The new owners at hotboat kicked a bunch of members off of the forums for no apparent reason and the forums were down for many months while the buy out was taking place. The forums went from OSO busy to 5 posts a day busy in the time it was shut down. The magazine side of it seemed to have problems ever since it was purchased. Then you see them selling it (including the website) on Craiglist. Problems with the buy out, appearent issues with management coupled with bad economic timing equals doom.

That seems to be it in a nut shell. Don't know all the ins and outs but that's the word around the campfire.
 
Tank said:
James, OSO'S fine...What do you want for that pimp golf cart!? Love that thing!


Dave, Larry Flynt publications originally owned Hotboat. Two brothers (forget their names) were going to buy it and one of the brothers kind've screwed the other out of it (from what I've heard). The other brother started Performance boats forums/magazine. The new owners at hotboat kicked a bunch of members off of the forums for no apparent reason and the forums were down for many months while the buy out was taking place. The forums went from OSO busy to 5 posts a day busy in the time it was shut down. The magazine side of it seemed to have problems ever since it was purchased. Then you see them selling it (including the website) on Craiglist. Problems with the buy out, appearent issues with management coupled with bad economic timing equals doom.

That seems to be it in a nut shell. Don't know all the ins and outs but that's the word around the campfire.
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I've been trying to find out if any of its true for awhile and am having no luck. Wondering if there really is a fire sale or not? Anyone have anything concrete?
 
Tank said:
James, OSO'S fine...What do you want for that pimp golf cart!? Love that thing!


Dave, Larry Flynt publications originally owned Hotboat. Two brothers (forget their names) were going to buy it and one of the brothers kind've screwed the other out of it (from what I've heard). The other brother started Performance boats forums/magazine. The new owners at hotboat kicked a bunch of members off of the forums for no apparent reason and the forums were down for many months while the buy out was taking place. The forums went from OSO busy to 5 posts a day busy in the time it was shut down. The magazine side of it seemed to have problems ever since it was purchased. Then you see them selling it (including the website) on Craiglist. Problems with the buy out, appearent issues with management coupled with bad economic timing equals doom.

That seems to be it in a nut shell. Don't know all the ins and outs but that's the word around the campfire.
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Thanks Tank, i had seen a few posts hear and there but hadnt really cought up on it. Thats a shame, i liked that mag and remember the forum was a pretty good one to. The group over there helped me identify a west coast boat i was buying that the owner/marina was having trouble finding the title to and the boat had no markings on it. Where did all the members migrate to, was there another site started? seemed like a good bunch.
 
glassdave said:
Thanks Tank, i had seen a few posts hear and there but hadnt really cought up on it. Thats a shame, i liked that mag and remember the forum was a pretty good one to. The group over there helped me identify a west coast boat i was buying that the owner/marina was having trouble finding the title to and the boat had no markings on it. Where did all the members migrate to, was there another site started? seemed like a good bunch.
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When Hotboat banned a bunch of the "locals" from their website, there was a mass exedus. About the same time performanceboats.com was formed and all the members from Hotboat went there. You'll find all the peeps from Hotboat over there.

The whole thing reminds me, in a way, of how this site came to be.:sifone:
 
Hotboat started going downhill when that broad took over and got rid of the bikini shots...because that's about the only good thing that magazine had to offer anyway (besides deckboats with flames :rolleyes: ). There are other wayyyy better publications, Hotboat is no loss. My $0.02.

:)
 
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