For sale: Lesbian.com.Sue Beckwith Beckwith may mean:
pl.n. Informal The basic elements or essentials: outlined the bare bones of the proposal. bare informational site, announced last month that the domain--which cost them $35--is for sale. The asking price: $2 million. Beckwith spoke with The Advocate. Why sell now? When I bought the site [for $35 in 1995], if you typed the word lesbian into a search engine, all you got were pages and pages of porn sites. Now there's so much more out there, and we don't really have the time to keep it up anymore. But $2 million? The buying power Buying Power The money an investor has available to buy securities. In a margin account, the buying power is the total cash held in the brokerage account plus maximum margin available. Also referred to as "Excess Equity. of the LGBT LGBT Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender population is into the hundreds of billions, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the recent report by [communications firm] Witeck-Combs, so our staging price for Lesbian.com could easily be considered not only reasonable but quite low. Would you consider selling it to a porn company? Certainly, the porn industry has the capacity to make us a lucrative offer. [But we've] been clear and open that our preference is for the site to continue to serve lesbians. |
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