travelguy
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Maybe the deal was simpler - we'll give you some stock in return for suspending the site - because UE felt the presence of the site was hurting their membersip sales, so they bought silence.
More importantly, UE was able to permanently banish the vast archive of negative posts that would have killed sales for years to come.
Of the active Clubs, UE was certainly the most skewered but the executives of Equity Estates seemed to be the most reactionary and paranoid to posts about the many unanswered questions regarding their business model.