[AUTO NEWS] Cars24 Acquires Team-BHP

I've never attempted to become a member of tbhp, but I keep reading their detailed reviews every once in a while. Hope the unbiased detailed reviews continue even after this acquisition.
Becoming a member might become easier maybe?
 
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logistopath said:
I've never attempted to become a member of tbhp, but I keep reading their detailed reviews every once in a while. Hope the unbiased detailed reviews continue even after this acquisition.
Becoming a member might become easier maybe?
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I hope so. I managed to get in on my first try 6 years ago. Not that such difficulty is warranted.

I love the reviews, though.
 
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Disappointing. I think Cars24 is backing Team-BHP because they clearly want to weave their used car buying and selling ecosystem into the forum, or other related services. They've already been supporting the forum for 7 years, with ad banners featured on the homepage. But that wasn’t enough. Now, they want to go deeper.

Cars24 says:

“Our investment in Team-BHP is not about control. It’s about preservation and progress.

• Preserving the standards they've upheld for over 20 years.
• Progressing the tools and reach they'll need for the next 20.”
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But let’s be honest, why would Cars24 care about "preservation" and "progress" unless there was something in it for them?

Full Post by the moderator - https://www.team-bhp.com/forum/anno...sted-auto-community-team-bhp.html#post5961262
 
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I was really surprised when I heard this and I immediately went over to TBHP to see what members had to say about it. To my utter surprise, there was absolutely NO talk about it. It's not possible that other members did not have a whiff of it or did not want to engage in any conversation related to it, but it seems like there was some kind of clamp down by the mods on the discussion.

Even the announcement post by the mod has been closed to replies. All of this points to the mods being cognizant of how unpopular the move would be amongst the members.

Everything aside, who made bank from the move? The owners.
 
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I was really surprised when I heard this and I immediately went over to TBHP to see what members had to say about it. To my utter surprise, there was absolutely NO talk about it. It's not possible that other members did not have a whiff of it or did not want to engage in any conversation related to it, but it seems like there was some kind of clamp down by the mods on the discussion.

Even the announcement post by the mod has been closed to replies. All of this points to the mods being cognizant of how unpopular the move would be amongst the members.

Everything aside, who made bank from the move? The owners.
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Exact same thing I observed. Saw the news on twitter and went to TBHP and saw absolutely nothing about it. Was very surprised.
 
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Exact same thing I observed. Saw the news on twitter and went to TBHP and saw absolutely nothing about it. Was very surprised.
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Also look at how poorly they've tried to sell the move to the members -
Just like how the mainstream cars of today boast cutting-edge technology (for instance, the new BE 6 & XEV 9e), Team-BHP also needs major advancements in tech.... Android & iOS Apps, a modern homepage, video reviews (finally!) to supplement our benchmark text + photo reviews and more (wait & watch
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Android & iOS apps, a modern homepage is now cutting-edge! Hilarious. There wasn't anything stopping them from implementing these in the first place. The owners are anyway rich folks with deep pockets, if they wanted, they could've easily brought out a web app even. But no, they needed Cars24 to come in and for Mahindra to launch the BE6 to remind them that they need to keep up with the times. Smh.

And I fail to understand how these Mahindra cars are "cutting-edge" technology. The whole announcement reeks of one shameless plug after the other.
 
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its the end of an era, be prepared for AI garbage to populate team BHP now, but tbh, mods were assholes and conversation felt very stilted to me there
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Most of the people in charge were rarely every nice. Most had holier than thou attitudes. And many frequently resorted to ad hominem attacks.
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and god forbid you criticised Mahindra lol,
 
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Team-BHP Mods are deleting any threads where members try to discuss this. In fact even the Spinny acquiring Autocar India thread was deleted lol.
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Did you try creating one?

When mass PMs are sent for voting and other minor stuff, they could atleast have forewarned us via a PM, instead of letting us find out from the news.

Even worse, is the fact that there is no discussion thread and the announcement thread is locked.

Honestly not what I expected from the forum.

I used to tag my vehicles with the over priced stickers and keychains because in my opinion, I was supporting an unbiased forum. Turns out, that's not the case.
 
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