ASEAN NOW to be purchased by The Thaiger?

[CharlieH]

42 minutes ago, george said:

Wow!

 

It could be several things:

 

- Just a rumor

- AN is buying Thaiger

- AN is merging with Thaiger

- Thaiger is buying AN

 

I wonder which alternative is most likely?

 

Go on George, tell em you're buying it back !

[Tropicalevo]

5 minutes ago, KannikaP said:

Hey, didn't we elders invent Rock & Roll?

Bring back Connie Francis and Gene Pitney?

(Or even Alma Cogan?)

[IvorBiggun2]

21 minutes ago, KannikaP said:

Ah, got there, Teak Door...I won't bother.

 

And you can make up your mind in 7 minutes and that's including the search time? Go 8888 yerself. Best forum out there, including Thaiger. Thaiger will go down the same road as AN.

 

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While some may argue that <URL Automatically Removed> is a little outdated, it remains popular amongst ex-pats in Thailand. In fact, the website has over 27,707 members, 126,259 threads and 3,608,595 posts, attesting to how in-demand it is.

 

Edited April 17 by IvorBiggun2

[Gsxrnz]

It's a steal at 3M baht. 🤪

 

https://www.worthofweb.com/website-value/aseannow.com/

 

How much is aseannow.com worth?

 

In this section, you can find the estimated website value for aseannow.com in US Dollars. We calculate it based on our estimation for daily, monthly, and annual revenue. You can view these revenue figures in the next section.

Worth Of Web Rank is a score to compare a website with the best websites in the world.

Data

 

Estimated worth of this website:

$23,590,000

 

[george]

1 minute ago, Gsxrnz said:

It's a steal at 3M baht. 🤪

 

https://www.worthofweb.com/website-value/aseannow.com/

 

How much is aseannow.com worth?

 

In this section, you can find the estimated website value for aseannow.com in US Dollars. We calculate it based on our estimation for daily, monthly, and annual revenue. You can view these revenue figures in the next section.

Worth Of Web Rank is a score to compare a website with the best websites in the world.

Data

 

Estimated worth of this website:

$23,590,000

 

 

Yeah, that would be about right

[NorthernRyland]

7 minutes ago, Gsxrnz said:

Estimated worth of this website:

$23,590,000

 

You could buy like 250 condos and rent them out for 10,000B+/month for $23mil  USD. How much revenue does this website generate per month? I doubt it's anywhere near that but what do I know.

[ChaiyaTH]

It's not gonna save the forum, it will collapse all together with the thaiger then over time. It surprises me though, they must be super inefficient or incompetent, if it is not possible to run this website profitable with all the ad income. Most things on this forum can be automated. Same as coconut Bangkok already stopped too.

[ChaiyaTH]

23 minutes ago, Hummin said:

I thought Thaiger already had a forum, why buy up AN and merge it together? I would think the database and members is not worth much for them? 

Because of monopoly, the traffic and being the biggest obviously. Isn't that hard to understand is it.

 

If new owners want to do a good thing it is to DELETE the super ugly aseannow domain name and revert back to thaivisa.com

Edited April 17 by ChaiyaTH

[george]

Thank you guys for helping out with this website valuation. It's good to know.

[brianthainess]

1 hour ago, Sticky Rice Balls said:

pass the dutchie pon the left hand side!

That song actually has nothing to do with passing a joint. 

[brianthainess]

47 minutes ago, Sticky Rice Balls said:

maybe have a poll to vote...secret ballots

Nothing is 'secret' from the mods.

[Gsxrnz]

5 minutes ago, NorthernRyland said:

 

You could buy like 250 condos and rent them out for 10,000B+/month for $23mil  USD. How much revenue does this website generate per month? I doubt it's anywhere near that but what do I know.

 

I did put a 🤪in my TIC observation.

[IvorBiggun2]

3 minutes ago, ChaiyaTH said:

 

 

If new owners want to do a good thing it is to DELETE the super ugly aseannow domain name and revert back to thaivisa.com

And go bust again???

[CharlieH]

Just in from Social Media.......

 

**Mystery Mega-Deal: Who Bought ASEAN NOW?**

In a shocking twist of events, the popular online forum ASEAN NOW has possibly been taken over or bought by a group of eclectic entities including Teak Door, Pattaya Addicts, Thaiger, Stickman, and a few others. The digital landscape of Southeast Asia may never be the same!

Speculation runs rampant as to who the true mastermind behind this acquisition is. Could it be the forum's enigmatic founder, George, who is rumored to have bought back the site he founded two decades ago? Or is it a shadowy coalition of rival forums staging a dramatic coup?

George, who has been seen sporting a mysterious cloak and twirling a sinister mustache in recent weeks, has been tight-lipped about his potential involvement in the takeover. Fans of the forum are holding their breath, eager to see how this high-stakes drama unfolds.

Some sources claim George might be plotting to combine all the forums into one mega-platform, complete with augmented reality features, virtual reality hangouts, and even an intergalactic chatroom! Stay tuned for more updates on this thrilling saga!

[Gsxrnz]

3 minutes ago, CharlieH said:

Just in from Social Media.......

 

**Mystery Mega-Deal: Who Bought ASEAN NOW?**

In a shocking twist of events, the popular online forum ASEAN NOW has possibly been taken over or bought by a group of eclectic entities including Teak Door, Pattaya Addicts, Thaiger, Stickman, and a few others. The digital landscape of Southeast Asia may never be the same!

Speculation runs rampant as to who the true mastermind behind this acquisition is. Could it be the forum's enigmatic founder, George, who is rumored to have bought back the site he founded two decades ago? Or is it a shadowy coalition of rival forums staging a dramatic coup?

George, who has been seen sporting a mysterious cloak and twirling a sinister mustache in recent weeks, has been tight-lipped about his potential involvement in the takeover. Fans of the forum are holding their breath, eager to see how this high-stakes drama unfolds.

Some sources claim George might be plotting to combine all the forums into one mega-platform, complete with augmented reality features, virtual reality hangouts, and even an intergalactic chatroom! Stay tuned for more updates on this thrilling saga!

 

I suspect you are quite close to the truth. An excellent piece of prose, by the way. 🖕

Edited April 17 by Gsxrnz

[brianthainess]

So will the Translations get any better, or the misleading headlines ? Rhetorical question. 

[Dante99]

1 hour ago, george said:

I know.

Hard to imagine people missing this guy.

[novacova]

The 9th paragraph in the article says it all. The lack of keeping it simple has brought AN to its demise. The last half of that paragraph has been overtly apparent, true colors eventually bleed out.

[jvs]

1 hour ago, george said:

I know.

Do you mind telling us also?

[Poilu]

1 hour ago, KannikaP said:

What's TD please?

 

1 hour ago, KannikaP said:

What's TD please?

Trump Derangement.

[sipi]

Forums are old school. 

It's like walking into a Yorkshire pub quarter full of lads sitting around tables in small groups chatting amongst themselves.

I find it more entertaining to sit at the bar and listen in on their conversations.

[pgrahmm]

Thaiger doesn't exactly set a high standard....Each change they've made over the past 2 years has been a steady downgrade....The demographics of each site seem to oppose each other.....

This has fail marked all over imo....

[simon43]

I think the new owners should issue shares in the business to any loyal forum members of more than 20 years standing... 🙂

[retarius]

I have an ad blocker so I don't get plagued with ads like some complain of. I was a member years ago. It was better when it was ThaiVisa. Asean Now added nothing to the platform in my opinion and I find the inconsistent and pro-Israel bias in the moderation very difficult to accept. If it gets taken over I'll give it a try to see how it is. Mike Lister did a survey her a month or two back about what posters felt about the forum....I don't remember getting a feedback of the consolidated comments, but that may well down to my inattentiveness. 

The things that freaks me out about the forum is these months old commentaries with 6000 odd responses and 35 pages.....at least give us the option to view the latest comments first instead of wading through 000s of comments.

[TroubleandGrumpy]

36 minutes ago, george said:

Thank you guys for helping out with this website valuation. It's good to know.

Both AN and TT have the same core online system and already share a lot of stuff as you know.

It makes sense to merge it all into one - good for the members, but much better for a lot of business reasons.

Good luck with whatever happens going forward George.

 

If you are cashing in on Thaiger (like Tim did) and are going 'on a holiday', then best wishes going forward mate.

But if you get a couple of old khrapy fishing huts and refurbish them and offer them at 4000 Baht a night - I wont be staying 😁

 

 

[retarius]

22 minutes ago, sipi said:

Forums are old school. 

It's like walking into a Yorkshire pub quarter full of lads sitting around tables in small groups chatting amongst themselves.

I find it more entertaining to sit at the bar and listen in on their conversations.

sipi no-mates?

[IvorBiggun2]

4 minutes ago, simon43 said:

I think the new owners should issue shares in the business to any loyal forum members of more than 20 years standing... 🙂

What you gonna do Simon? TD or Thaiger?

[sipi]

I gave up when I started reading about butt plugs, dick photos, drinking olive oil and a pile of other drivel.

[sipi]

Just now, retarius said:

sipi no-mates?

Lol. Yep. I gave that comment a like.

By choice.

[CharlieH]

8 minutes ago, retarius said:

....at least give us the option to view the latest comments first instead of wading through 000s of comments.

Use the arrows and links provided and you dont have to. 😀