$$$- Help Needed w/ 3.07 forum-$$$

[rapfx]

Hello

I just joined but cannot post in the appropriate forum. Hopefully someone can help me with that.

I have just purchased a 3.07 VB Forum, and need some help with a few things.

The website is http://www.rapfx.com

I want to add some actions with the "UTT Points" system.
I need some help removing ads placed by the previous owner.
I would like to get the chat section fixed.
I need an analysis of what is already there. This site seems to have a lot custom features, I'm just not sure how everything works.

I am web savvy, just clueless when it comes to VBulletin.

Please post if you can help, and a ballpark figure of what you would charge to do this.

Thanks
David

[nexialys]

1- you bought a website, not the license... take the time to register your own person to vbulletin.com and follow the license agreement if you did not read it yet... the big announcement on this same page (top, green.)... have to follow the links too...

also, there is a Services Requests forum, where Licenses Owners can post such requests... that's the only place where it will be permitted...

good luck with your forum...

[Erwin]

rapfx,

You are currently showing up as unlicensed. To be able to download hacks and/or receive support here at vBulletin.org, we ask you to please click here (http://members.vbulletin.com/membersupport_priority.php) (vB-germany users click here (http://members.vbulletin-germany.com/membersupport_priority.php)) and enter your email address, to show us that you are licensed.

You will need to use your customer number and password (which will be in the email you got when you paid for your license) to access that page. Please note that your email is case sensitive. The update of your account may take up to one hour.

Thank you.

[rapfx]

hmmm... the sale stated it included an "owned" liscense. Can I find it somewhere in the admin panel?

Thanks
David

[nexialys]

hmmm... the sale stated it included an "owned" liscense. Can I find it somewhere in the admin panel?
So you were framed...

http://www.vbulletin.com/faqsales.php

owned means you don't have to lease the script... vBulletin have a leased and owned license... you can't become the owner of a script just by buying the forum itself.. you have to buy another license to make your own... just buy the license and you will simply be the new owner of the script/site!

[Zachariah]

hmmm... the sale stated it included an "owned" liscense.

I would think it would be with the company you bought the hosting package with.

They:
1) bought a ton of owned license and are giving to the customer to host with them. (perhaps a large account or farm of servers) In this case you would have to get some type of client info I would think from them ?!?
2) sucked you into a hosting package by offering a free NULLed forums software, insted of useing phpbb. (if so , hope you used a credit card for payment of the hosting)

:cry:

Got a link to the hosting biz ?

[rapfx]

So you were framed...

http://www.vbulletin.com/faqsales.php

owned means you don't have to lease the script... vBulletin have a leased and owned license... you can't become the owner of a script just by buying the forum itself.. you have to buy another license to make your own... just buy the license and you will simply be the new owner of the script/site!

Why not? What is the previous owner going to do with it? His license should be transferable to me. The license is for the site and that site only correct?

[Reeve of shinra]

I think he purchased a site and the seller agreed to pass along the owned vb liscence, along with the domain name, db, and any other stuff.

RapFX - what you will need to do is contact the guy that sold you the site. He will need to send an email to sales@vbulletin.com I believe to have the ownership info changed over to you (assuming the liscence meets vb's criteria for transfership).

[nexialys]

Jelsoft does not permit licenses switching actually, so even if you bought the forum, you had to inform yourself before the sale, not after... buyers have to inform themselves when money is on the table!

[Marco van Herwaarden]

Wrong guys, you can transfer a license (under some restrictions) like Reeve of shinra said.

@rapfx,

Please contact sales at http://members.vbulletin.com/membersupport_contactform.php

They will need proof (provided by the original owner that he wants his license to be transfered to your name, contact information about your, and maybe more.
Jelsoft may, in its discretion, allow you to transfer your license to another party, providing the license:
- has not already been transferred in the previous 12 months; and
- was purchased more than 3 months in the past

[Paul M]

Jelsoft does not permit licenses switching actually, so even if you bought the forum, you had to inform yourself before the sale, not after... buyers have to inform themselves when money is on the table!That's absolute rubbish, I have a licence that was owned by someone else and then transferred to me after a few years. I now own it.

[Marco van Herwaarden]

I already posted that in the post above yours Paul ;)

[Paul M]

I already posted that in the post above yours Paul ;)Not quite, you posted that it's possible - I posted that I had actually done it - yours is theory, mine is fact. :p

[AN-net]

Not quite, you posted that it's possible - I posted that I had actually done it - yours is theory, mine is fact. :p
its still to jelsoft's discretion, they can just deny the request if they feel like it.

[TheMoose]

its still to jelsoft's discretion, they can just deny the request if they feel like it.

Link to web Host?