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I actually included a link to Mark Kitto’s explanation of why he sold the URLs to Asiaxpat. Here it is again:
http://www.asiaxpat.com/pr/thats/

You are right, quite a story!

Alex, its nothing to do with content, and everything to do with layout and usability. James points out one problem, but there are so many more.

I remember when the site had just been transfered, and everything was messed up, so people just put their phone numbers in the ad because the messaging system was unusable.

Since then I have rarely bothered to use the site, but when I do I still see the same poor design, where finding what you want is all but impossible and barriers are everywhere. What should take two clicks instead takes twenty minutes to figure out where the right category is!

I have nothing against Paul, but as a user in Shanghai he has failed me terribly. I was extremely frustrated at the time of the transfer as I relied on Thatsshanghai for my business, and as I said Asiaxpat rendered the site worthless.

The real story is Paul buying the Shanghai and Beijing sites and the circumstances surrounding the sale, if anyone knows what I am talking about you will understand

“We are living in a white-guy world, living in a white-guy world”

Asia = Asians.

Perhaps a similar copy-and-paste policy was instituted for Beijing resources, but where few other good listings sites exist the copy-paste has to wait a little? Just an idea, but based on looking at several news articles at AsiaExpat, where there is little more than copy-paste at work, so perhaps a founded idea?

Fast Eddy anyone? [A reference to HKExpat's by far most prolific poster... XKV?] Yes I have a good memory.

It’s been years now and AsiaXpat Beijing and Shanghai subsites haven’t improved one bit. The classifieds are all but unusable (and rarely used), personals without pictures, a restaurant section with nothing but photos of some event in Hong Kong that no one cares about, the design just as horrible and user-unfriendly as ever.. The list goes on and on.

It’s great that Mr. Luciw is doing so well in Hong Kong, but please either improve the other cities’ sites or just shut them down so that current expats and newcomers alike don’t waste their time..

I last looked at AsiaXpat around 4 months ago. It seems to have changed hugely, not just appearance but content deepened hugely, especially listings. I’d be interested in the reason for this.

Also, curious as to the editorial policy, given this story http://hongkong.asiaxpat.com/forums/think!/threads/114353/elliot-spitzer/ seems to have been copy and pasted from a site that claims a strict copyright policy (http://www.alternet.org/story/79486/)

Lastly, I understand it was the change in Hong Kong law that meant Stock Issues no longer had to be printed in both English and Chinese language papers.

Opps, the above seems a bit negative; good interviews always raise more questions.