WHAT HAPPENED TO GEARFETISH.COM?

Over the past few weeks to a month, like many others, I have wondered what became of this site. I can tell you a guy named Chris in Atlanta owned and operated the site, and when he started it, he had an awesome site, even though it was a pay site. I believe the site came into existence around 2002 or 2003.

While I did not know Chris personally, I do know for many years, he put his heart and soul into the site, though good times and bad. It was great to see guys in various gear and sneakers have a place to post their work and escapades, and when bondage was tossed in with assorted gear and/or sneakers it made it even better.

For a lot of years, this site was definitely on my morning reads. There would be ten plus pages of new pictures posted daily by subscribers. It was a place where guys could meet other guys who were into the same things. I even met a few guys for some gear and bondage fun off that site. While I subscribed to this site for many years, I did let my membership go a few years back, when I was not making as much money as I was, and had to cut some expenses.

So, this brings me to what I had noticed over the past several months and some possibilities.

The daily posts and new pictures kept getting fewer, and fewer and fewer. The ten plus pages of new pictures daily were down to less than five daily, and in many days only two or three pages, so, something happened.

Did a lot of members find themselves like me, and had to cut something out of their lives because they found themselves making less money? This is possible. Unlike my blog that is a hobby, and I don't have to pay for web hosting, Gearfetish needed money to survive from subscriptions, and did fewer and fewer and fewer subscriptions drive this? That's possible.

Did a lot of members get tied of the site? Well everything does grow old, and perhaps many of the members may have lost interest because they got older. Another possibility is did many members get sick of the fakes and flakes that every site like Gearfetish seems to attract? That's possible. (On a sidebar, I have noticed the same thing on Recon, where Guys will start to talk then stop, or not even answer a message. Guess their Momma's and Daddy's never taught them any manners).

Did something bad happen to Chris who was the owner and administrator of the site. Well, let's hope not!

As you can see, the possibilities I have outlined on what happened to this site is purely conjecture on my part, but these are also some very real possibilities that are not far fetched in the least. One can't help but wonder when a subscription site that has been around so long goes "poof" overnight, with no explanation as to what happened, there will be conjecture out there surrounding this mystery. I am sure there is someone out there that knows the story.

While I have enjoyed their site for many years, I am sure, I am joined many others who are quite disappointed to see that there was no announcement that the site would be coming down. Hopefully, those who prepaid subscriptions did get money back.

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Thanks' for reading.