# \*How much\* to purchase the SDMB? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 30, 2008, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-to-purchase-the-sdmb/470202 "2008-10-30T03:12:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2008, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-to-purchase-the-sdmb/470202/21 "2008-11-06T22:22:59Z")
> [@Bongmaster](#): > > My completely uneducated and uninformed WAG: $25,000 and its yours lock, stock and barrel. Damn, we’ve gone from $3.50 to $25k just like that!? Don’t you know how an auction works? We’ll take that as your maximum bid. So that makes the bid $3.75. I’ll go $4.00. ---
**Author:** ![Chief\_Pedant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a6a055/32.png) [@Chief\_Pedant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chief_Pedant)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2008, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-to-purchase-the-sdmb/470202/22 "2008-11-06T22:24:28Z")
Let’s ask **DSYoungEsq**. ---
**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2008, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-to-purchase-the-sdmb/470202/23 "2008-11-07T02:07:20Z")
I’ll sell you my contributions for $14.95 a year. _But_, since you’re already a member, I’ll offer the _Charter SDMB Owner_ discount, which is just $7.50 per year, as long as you do not lapse in your payment. In addition, you’ll can ask me about any of my past posts and I’ll do my darndest to remember what it was I said, and you won’t have to listen to any of my commercial shilling. Finally, I can’t tell you what, exactly, but expect some great posting from me in the upcoming years, on new and different topics. I hate to be so secretive, but I think you’ll enjoy what you get. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2008, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-to-purchase-the-sdmb/470202/24 "2008-11-07T16:49:42Z")
> [@](#): > > _How much_ to purchase the SDMB? I’ll pay $7.48 a year. ---
**Author:** ![HoboStew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f17d59/32.png) [@HoboStew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoboStew)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2008, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-to-purchase-the-sdmb/470202/25 "2008-11-08T01:55:44Z")
> [@ladyfoxfyre](#): > > About $3.50 It was about that time I realized this message board was 8 stories tall, and a crustacean from the paleozoic era. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2008, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-to-purchase-the-sdmb/470202/26 "2008-11-08T03:21:17Z")
_I don’t care how much I pay, I wanna post on The Dope all night and day…_ ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2008, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-to-purchase-the-sdmb/470202/27 "2008-11-08T04:24:15Z")
I think I saw it up on eBay a couple days ago. Last bid: $19.01 ---
**Author:** ![Hamlet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hamlet/32/2818_2.png) [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2008, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-to-purchase-the-sdmb/470202/28 "2008-11-08T04:32:23Z")
I want my two dollars!!! ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2008, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-to-purchase-the-sdmb/470202/29 "2008-11-08T14:12:13Z")
> [@Koxinga](#): > > (Koxinga maintains level gaze, unfolds paper without looking at it. Eyes flick down to paper briefly, then back level again. Gives just a touch of a sardonic smile, then puffs once more on cigar.) > > Come now. We are both serious men; enough with this child’s play. > > Really, what is your offer? Come now. Lebenty-thousand is a SUBSTANTIAL sum. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2008, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-to-purchase-the-sdmb/470202/30 "2008-11-08T14:46:38Z")
> [@cmyk](#): > > I think I saw it up on eBay a couple days ago. Last bid: $19.01 No, that was Iceland. ---
**Author:** ![Terrifel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@Terrifel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrifel)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2008, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-to-purchase-the-sdmb/470202/31 "2008-11-08T14:55:02Z")
Six belts of fine wampum, twenty axe heads, three iron kettles, one bridesweight of Liberian witch sticks, a slightly used Jew’s harp and a Yap stone. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2008, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-to-purchase-the-sdmb/470202/32 "2008-11-08T16:03:51Z")
> [@Terrifel](#): > > Six belts of fine wampum, twenty axe heads, three iron kettles, one bridesweight of Liberian witch sticks, a slightly used Jew’s harp and a Yap stone. I have everything but the Yap stone. Fuck. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-to-purchase-the-sdmb/470202/33 "2008-11-10T12:52:35Z")
> [@cmyk](#): > > I have everything but the Yap stone. Fuck. I found a couple down the back of my sofa. You can have one. ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2008, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-to-purchase-the-sdmb/470202/34 "2008-11-11T00:25:39Z")
$1,920, plus they’ll throw in the Death Ray for free! ---
**Author:** ![Jeff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2008, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-to-purchase-the-sdmb/470202/35 "2008-11-11T00:35:31Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > For some reason I’m hearing the thread title as spoken by John Belushi as Jake Blues: _How much for the messageboard? Your forums…I wish to buy them. Sell them to me…_ Thank god I’m not the only one. Wouldn’t purchasing the SDMB mean purchasing the hosting servers and equipment? I assume that wouldn’t be cheap. ---
**Author:** ![drachillix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/48db29/32.png) [@drachillix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drachillix)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2008, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-to-purchase-the-sdmb/470202/36 "2008-11-11T03:33:00Z")
> [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](#): > > $1,920, plus they’ll throw in the Death Ray for free! How much for just the death ray? ---
**Author:** ![drachillix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/48db29/32.png) [@drachillix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drachillix)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2008, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-to-purchase-the-sdmb/470202/37 "2008-11-11T03:36:01Z")
> [@Jeff](#): > > Thank god I’m not the only one. > > Wouldn’t purchasing the SDMB mean purchasing the hosting servers and equipment? I assume that wouldn’t be cheap. Those could be leased from someplace like Godaddy for probably less than $1K a month. ---
**Author:** ![Jeff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2008, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-to-purchase-the-sdmb/470202/38 "2008-11-11T03:53:54Z")
Excellent. Now how much for the SDMB women? Your women, I wish to purchase them… ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2008, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-to-purchase-the-sdmb/470202/39 "2008-11-11T04:27:51Z")
> [@](#): > > Wouldn’t purchasing the SDMB mean purchasing the hosting servers and equipment? I assume that wouldn’t be cheap. Hosting servers, equipment, and TubaDiva’s Dream House sold seperately. SDMB sold by weight not volume. Batteries not included. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-to-purchase-the-sdmb/470202.md?page=1)