What is the price of hypothetical buying this website

[Guest TheStoryTeller97]

How much would it cost for me hypothetical buying this website

[WillowDarkling]

[Guest TheStoryTeller97]

So your going to name a price

[WillowDarkling]

I’m not the owner, so no. 

And you do realise that there’s a lot more to buying this site than just paying for it. There’s hosting costs, advertising contracts to uphold, coding to work on. And the staff… 

[Guest TheStoryTeller97]

Yeah I know  I definitely know that 

[WillowDarkling]

And also, what makes you think that the site is up for sale, anyway?

[Guest TheStoryTeller97]

I was wondering about  hypothetical it would cost that's all

[BronxWench]

Let me start by saying that AFF is NOT for sale. I am, however, extravagantly interested in what gave you the notion that we were open to such a thing. I don’t recall any mention anywhere of the site being offered for sale, and I’m fairly sure I would have noticed any signs on the virtual front lawn.

If you are serious about starting a fiction archive, however, that’s a separate discussion.

[Guest TheStoryTeller97]

Ok again I was thinking of buying this site and wondering about hypothetical price 

[BronxWench]

And again, we’re not for sale.

[JayDee]

You can’t buy the site. You have to be given the ceremonial dildo by the Lady of the Lake. It sounds bad, but it’s better than the old method of having to pull it from the stone.

You ever hear stone moan? It’s horrific.

[Desiderius Price]

In a rarity, I actually found myself offended, and it’s by the very notion this anonymous “guest” suggested and their unknown ulterior motive.  This website is a large community of authors that have entrusted their IP and stories to the archives in the hopes it’ll get read and enjoyed by others.   It’s appalling to think somebody has the nerve to think they can simply waltz in and try to buy the website out; who knows what they’d do with it?

 

[BronxWench]

Thank you, @Desiderius Price. I’ve spent over ten years as a moderator for AFF. I wrote and published here before I joined as staff. This has been my online writing family, and I for one would very much like to keep my family intact.

[Thundercloud]

The actual concept that anybody think they can purchase an archive hosting fanfiction is rather weird. I mean...they could begin to read the sites disclaimer about not accepting fanfics written for money before they consider to waste everyone's time by posting questions about purchasing the fanfic-archive.

[Desiderius Price]

@Thundercloud  The sense of entitlement that person had in the subsequent posts, that’s what unnerved me.

[JayDee]

The trick is to find the site owner on the way to market, offer ‘em a handful of magic beans. There’s not a website owner in the world wouldn’t like their own beanstalk to the kingdom of the giants. Except maybe that Gadget Hackwrench fansite.