Static911

Dear Club Lexus Members,

This thread will serve as the primary discussion regarding Internet Brands acquisition of Club Lexus. Please feel free to post your questions and suggestions. I will do my best to answer them all. Thank you.

Sincerely,

Ethan Kay
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PureDrifter

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i respect the admin position to sell/not sell CL as long as there arent any major operating changes and am gunna hold off on my questioning until the official release/announcement Dave was talkin about in the other thread

flipside909

Official announcement by Ethan is here:

https://www.clublexus.com/forums/announcement.php?f=4

PureDrifter

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missed that i did

thanks ryan

lexusondubs

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Ethan good for you ... but iam still dissapointed

DaveGS4

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I added a link to Ethan's annoucement to ask folks to place any questions they have in this thread.

I've got some business travel today and may not have access tonight, so if there are items I need to address I may not respond to them until tomorrow late morning.

I'm sure Ethan and the folks at Internet Brands will be checking in from time to time and will chip in.

THANK YOU for your patience in letting us communicate this the right way.

TruPlaya26

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OOOOOOOOOoooooooooo man put me on the list for the stickers as soon as they come out . Haha thanks guys

Hameed

The million dollar question is how much they paid to acquire this site.

lexusondubs

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well Ethan its been nice talking to you over the years I really hope you will still frequent the site and actually post to let us know your still around ......now I cant say "I know the OWNER of CL," anymore lol

Allen K

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You can still say you know the founder of CL, thats got to be worth something!

DaveGS4

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The founder is a guy named Mike Kilty. Ethan purchased the site from him.

ben_r_

Yea, thats what Id like to know!

I kinda figured that when he said in the announcement that he was going for his MBA... Usually business people arent nerdy enough to create web applications. So did Mike Kilty actually build the website? If he didnt who did?

DaveGS4

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Both the old version that Mike started with and this one aren't "built" they're "configured" and lightly customized. CL runs on forum software called vBulletin built by a company called Jelsoft.

The company that just bought Club Lexus also bought Jelsoft, and we hope to be able to get new features a lot faster now .

Sal Collaziano

Jelsoft has been very slow with adding new features over the past couple of years. Now that Internet Brands bought a bunch of forums running on vBulletin - AND vBulletin (!), I'm guessing they're not going to let it sit for very long. I think we'll finally start seeing vBulletin become innovative again...

flipside909

With a dedicated IT department, I think there are huge benefits to IB's position in CL. On top of Jelsoft, the whole deal is a win win situation for CL and the 70+K and growing membership we have.