No More free "Bleacher Seats"

• september63

  

  My local newspaper just announced this week a fee will be charged to read their paper online.
• Curly J

  

  justincredible;790771 wrote:Hopefully this will piss people off and bring them over here.
  
  Remember folks, the old OC will NEVER charge you to post. Ever. Because that's dumb as ass.

  Thanks !!! Of course one should never ever have to pay to post on a Minor League site.
• Heretic

  

  Well, if they've fucked up everything else as far as business plans go, what's one more fuck up? A drop in the bucket of colossal blunders.
• wes_mantooth

  

  Heretic;791160 wrote:Well, if they've fucked up everything else as far as business plans go, what's one more fuck up? A drop in the bucket of colossal blunders.

  
  Truth. They are the LA Clippers of message boards.
• Laley23

  

  september63;791148 wrote:My local newspaper just announced this week a fee will be charged to read their paper online.

  
  A lot of papers are going that route. Only because subscriptions are so down because they offer the free paper online. A lot of papers will charge for parts of the paper (like Obituaries, or High School Sports, etc). Or just charge for the Sunday paper.
• justincredible

  

  hoops23;791085 wrote:Nice flyer there Justin, so when's the new "premium" OC rolling out? lol
  
  

  
  Shhh...
• jordo212000

  

  My local newspaper just announced this week a fee will be charged to read their paper online.

  
  A lot of papers are going that route. Only because subscriptions are so down because they offer the free paper online. A lot of papers will charge for parts of the paper (like Obituaries, or High School Sports, etc). Or just charge for the Sunday paper.

  they never learn. When newspapers first went online they went that route. Then when they realized that people won't pay for stuff on the internet that is readily available elsewhere, they make it free. Then somebody gets greedy and tries to make people pay and the cycle repeats
• Curly J

  

  jordo212000;791331 wrote:they never learn. When newspapers first went online they went that route. Then when they realized that people won't pay for stuff on the internet that is readily available elsewhere, they make it free. Then somebody gets greedy and tries to make people pay and the cycle repeats

  Sounds a lot like what 'another site that cannot be uttered on here' did.
• Frothy Walrus

  

  For the record, Bleacher Seats looks still free and accessible to me (and I'm not a a premium member either). It must have just been something temporary...maybe some type of error. I doubt they're ignorant enough to make the entire site a "pay site." There are only about 45 people that post on there already....
• LJ

  

  Frothy Walrus;791942 wrote:For the record, Bleacher Seats looks still free and accessible to me (and I'm not a a premium member either). It must have just been something temporary...maybe some type of error. I doubt they're ignorant enough to make the entire site a "pay site." There are only about 45 people that post on there already....

  
  Yeha I just checked, it's working agai. Although they did take away the rest of the free forums
• justincredible

  

  Frothy Walrus;791942 wrote:For the record, Bleacher Seats looks still free and accessible to me (and I'm not a a premium member either). It must have just been something temporary...maybe some type of error. I doubt they're ignorant enough to make the entire site a "pay site." There are only about 45 people that post on there already....

  
  My guess is it was an intentional error. Basically just testing the waters to see what the response was. If there was an uproar just say "Ooops, that wasn't supposed to happen." If no uproar, hey, $36 more for the year.
• thavoice

  yeahh..it works for me. I go there about 2x a week.
  
  That is about all needed to catch up as that place is dead.
• Heretic

  

  justincredible;791329 wrote:Shhh...

  
  
• coyotes22

  

  Curly J;791158 wrote:Thanks !!! Of course one should never ever have to pay to post on a Minor League site.

  
  Little League. Coach Pitch even.
  
  Of course, those of us who joined in Nov. of '09, will be grandfathered in. Yes?
• Thread Bomber

  

  coyotes22;794169 wrote:Little League. Coach Pitch even.
  
  Of course, those of us who joined in Nov. of '09, will be grandfathered in. Yes?

  No... But they will get they're own forum page called free huddle legends.
• QuakerOats

  Cat Food Flambe';790884 wrote:Still wonder how Bucknuts managed to take what might have been the more successful HS sport section in the country and run it firmly into the ground.

  
  It's Bush's fault.