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| UER Forum > UE Main > Was this inevitable? Locations for sale. (Viewed 3370 times) |
:: inuk
Location: Burnaby BC. Gender: Male Total Likes: 1 like
Freelance Thinking
| | | Was this inevitable? Locations for sale. < on 4/25/2015 6:01 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | I came across this today and I find myself rather upset about it. I do NOT own this page, nor do I profit from it in any way. This is not spam. http://ue4sale.com/ In todays increasingly commercial environment do you think this was inevitable? I for the record think this is wrong. From the website itself: "Why buy locations? The urban exploration scene, especially if you do not have plenty of experienced friends, can be a tough one to find new places to visit. Our list is the biggest and cheapest instantly available online." The 'trusted' system here at least makes an effort to weed out the unethical people who look for locations here to scrap, trash, burn down etc, but this commercial website puts the almighty dollar (or Euro in this case) above the idea of keeping a site secret in an effort to protect it from harm. One finds location be doing a little research and driving or walking around, or by finding or making friends to explore with. So, what are your thoughts? ::
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| Aran
Location: Kansas City Gender: Male Total Likes: 1848 likes
Huh. I guess covid made me a trendsetter.
| | | Re: Was this inevitable? Locations for sale. < Reply # 8 on 4/26/2015 12:32 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Well, no matter what, one thing's for sure... If anyone ever finds out you've bought (or sold) location coordinates from these guys, your credibility's shot. Nobody's going to trust someone who puts profit over preservation with their locations. As it stands, no serious urbexer would be caught dead doing business with that site. Although it is upsetting, at least they won't get anything from the actual urban explorers, only bad locations from unethical wannabees. I don't forsee them getting any pristine locations, only those that have been trashed already.
| "Sorry, I didn't know I'm not supposed to be here," he said, knowing full well he wasn't supposed to be there. |
| mookster
Location: Oxford, UK Gender: Male Total Likes: 2377 likes
| | | Re: Was this inevitable? Locations for sale. < Reply # 9 on 4/26/2015 6:38 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by Aran Well, no matter what, one thing's for sure... If anyone ever finds out you've bought (or sold) location coordinates from these guys, your credibility's shot. Nobody's going to trust someone who puts profit over preservation with their locations. As it stands, no serious urbexer would be caught dead doing business with that site. Although it is upsetting, at least they won't get anything from the actual urban explorers, only bad locations from unethical wannabees. I don't forsee them getting any pristine locations, only those that have been trashed already.
| Hit the nail on the head. With the secrecy surrounding locations nowadays due to people wanting to avoid the urbex tourbus rocking up outside them it's no surprise that people - and this isn't the first person to do so - will be willing to sell locations to desperate idiots. It's a big problem in mainland Europe where the secrecy over certain locations means even me, as a well-travelled and trusted explorer don't even stand a chance of getting them. And I'm OK with that, as I totally get why they are so secretive. I don't know if the 'urbex tourbus' is such a big an issue in the USA as it is in Europe, as the USA is a lot lot bigger so it must be harder for 15 million explorers to all descend on a single location at once.
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