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What do you think of people buying databases

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Hey all i was just wondering what do you think of people buying databases instead of starting fresh

i was wondering because my site was deleted by my host he refused to give me a reason and a backup of my site and i dont have a recent backup i was going to buy a database instead of starting fresh but i wanted to see what people thought of it

Thanks
 
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I disagree with databases being used to make sites.
If you want to make a site, in my opinion, you should start from the bottom up.

Mass emailing however, is another thing. ;)
 
Start from scratch, unless you have intention of mass mailing just for more traffic/members, once you started.

You can also combine best of both worlds. Start fresh AND use the database to email (but don't use db on site)
 
Well i hope everyone convince you to buy a DB lol! I have one for sale btw, 15k members it was a warez forum IPB. PM if interested.
 
A person would have to be a total moron to by a database.
I am sure you could find one, though I think its retarded. It just pisses of people who register and then see all the links are broken. :cute:
 
Golden Falcon said:
Start from scratch, unless you have intention of mass mailing just for more traffic/members, once you started.

You can also combine best of both worlds. Start fresh AND use the database to email (but don't use db on site)
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I agree with GF on this one. Start afresh and use the db to mass email members and build your new db.
 
yea use a fresh db, use another db to mass email every and basically say that you have a problem and had to restart so they have to re-register. But to come back and sig up again. I personally belive in only starting fresh. I hate those sites who use them. You can tell that they did.

They usually have 20,000+members and little posts or 100,000+posts and 20,000+ members and have no activity in comparsion to there stats. Its pointless to look good.

With all the db I have collected over the years I could probably make my site have a few 100,000 members but its pointless.
 
I don't like buying database .. unless it's for emailing purposes
What's the sense of buying a crappy database with 100% inactive members?
If you simply wanted to make a good impression with lots of members and posts, you could use a hack from Vbulletin to simply fake the stats!
Or use ileech/sharpleech to get posts

Buying database sux ><
 
People buying databases have a very low chance of actually making it big.
Visitors know the stats are falsified so don't return as they see the site as untrustable and false.

If you want a big forum, you don't start with someone else's, you make your own. That's the only way you'll get a quality site up.
 
lol it all really depends on how old the database is. and when u buy the database from someone, are you the only one with the db copy? im sure that's what most sellers tell you but i bet its not.
 
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