RIP UGHH
Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2016 5:09 pm
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Yeah and I am sure that is the main reason for this. Same shit happened to HHS. The minute you add all that overhead it's a death sentence.Versive wrote:Wow, that's crazy. Didn't they open a brick and mortar location too?
lol at wicked in that thread condemning people for being on facebook.Philaflava wrote:http://forums.undergroundhiphop.com/rea ... ID=2878124
That's not me, moron. I'm WiCkEd22, just like I am on here. What's funny is a rogue mod banned me and deleted my entire 15+ year posting history. I'm posting under W!CkEd22 right now until Quest unbans me and restores my history.Cockhead wrote:lol at wicked in that thread condemning people for being on facebook.Philaflava wrote:http://forums.undergroundhiphop.com/rea ... ID=2878124
iCONtheMicKing wrote:I just hit up Quest asking if he'll sell it to me.
Stay tuned.
-MK
This sounds nice on paper, but you have to admit there's a part of you that feels pride about outlasting UGHHPhilaflava wrote:I admire Quest for following his dreams and making it into a reality. Keeping the site this long is truly an amazing feat in itself.
Haha. Truth is, I never had any beef with Adam. Maybe, one time I caught wind of something on his forums that I didn’t like and I personally called him up on his cell and he handled it immediately. That was my contact with him. Look, he ran an online business, then an actual record store. It would be rather presumptuous to assume what those responsibilities are like. I know the struggle just to get feedback on my podcast, so it has to be 1000x worse when people are all “supportive” and all over his forums all day long and don’t actually purchase the records from his shop. It’s a challenge but he outlasted HipHopSite and really Sandbox because they barely exist. What I will say, I never for once thought their forums were as good as ours. Not ever. I also don’t think Adam invested as much in his forums as his business. He seemed almost disconnected to the nerdfest that took place over there during my lurking days. Make no mistake about it, UGHH definitely played a role in all of this. I remember the threads with Immortal Tech or Copywrite. It was a good place and I don’t get joy in the fact we’re one of the forums still around. Social media killed message boards and the lack of financial support killed his stores. People talk a good talk, but most don’t truly follow through with a purchase. His store was the achilles heel. All of the costs for that store front, to all of the staff on payroll, that can’t last forever. Not when 5000 people click like on a CZARFACE album, but only 500 buy it from UGHH.GUCCI CONDOMS wrote:This sounds nice on paper, but you have to admit there's a part of you that feels pride about outlasting UGHHPhilaflava wrote:I admire Quest for following his dreams and making it into a reality. Keeping the site this long is truly an amazing feat in itself.
Not quite. A store is not the right business model for this type of site. At best it's a loss leader. It would need to monetize in other ways.Philaflava wrote:I think Mike thinks some creative SEO will change the outcome, but I'm almost certain the physical store is the cause of this. If you eliminate the overhead, and do a mail order out of a house (like say Sandbox does now), with zero staff on payroll and zero expenses that come with owning a B&M, then you can survive. But the other component is that people just do not BUY music. Not enough. Many talk it. Some support it, but not nearly enough to run a succesful business. I admire Quest for following his dreams and making it into a reality. Keeping the site this long is truly an amazing feat in itself.
phila sounds like a bunch of wickeds. no thank you.
Phila is wack. Humor isn't allowed there from what I remember, they take themselves way too damn seriously.
UGHH dieing is a pretty massive end of an era type situation, I don't think it's really hit me just yet what is actually being lost here. Don't mean to sound like a fag, but damn. Losing some great
was just about to say that. pf is a bunch of 40yo's blandly talking about music. zero personality, music nerds are def. among the worst people in the world...
main reason why i like this place is the mentally ill weirdos & funny mf's like ollie
and you were trying do an intake of UGHH refugees?Philaflava wrote:phila sounds like a bunch of wickeds. no thank you.Phila is wack. Humor isn't allowed there from what I remember, they take themselves way too damn seriously.
UGHH dieing is a pretty massive end of an era type situation, I don't think it's really hit me just yet what is actually being lost here. Don't mean to sound like a fag, but damn. Losing some greatwas just about to say that. pf is a bunch of 40yo's blandly talking about music. zero personality, music nerds are def. among the worst people in the world...
main reason why i like this place is the mentally ill weirdos & funny mf's like ollie