Sorry Scotty, I think I've been in a parallel universe lately or something.Originally Posted by scottish-guy
It sounds as though this "Thomas" is reading Sawatdee, for whatever reason...whether that is somewhat related to this next business venture he's going to launch sometime this year? I'm not sure, perhaps we touched a nerve or something over there. I received two emails from them, which seem to indicate someone else is speaking on behalf of whatever was, gaylifeinthailand.com.
One thing they either never knew or were too stupid to piece together was that we had only been duped twice by Neal for two other new web sites that same year; cruisinggaythailand.com (that somehow ended up as Lonely Wombat's site (let's hope he didn't actually pay anything for it); and of course the pink Pattayabitchboard...which later became the pink Thailandbitchboard. When gaylifeinthailand.com entered the scene, Thomas introduced himself as this secretive guy who we didn't need to know about, someone with too much time on his hands... The whole story was suspicious in a very suspicious time.
I imagine if new (young) perspective members came by and saw his flashy site, they might join and start something up. Unfortunately, that didn't happen, because you need the guys that have had the experience to create the resource newbies come to read. Gaylifeinthailand needed to win people's trust over and they stuck to being secretive, in an environment dominated by Neal (at the time) and they simply couldn't survive like that.
Could it work again somehow? Well after this P.R. blunder, I wouldn't think so.
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