Hello I have recently had an offer for my site www.surfaceripple.com (which i was originally selling) to be merged with another social network site faceladder.com Brief history to put it into context: My site has been alive for over 2 years now and has a successful place google along with a nice pr of 4. I have personally put 100's of hours work into achieving the preferred designs (of old and new website as the site has gone through 3 different variations of design since it started). I have built up a steady 650 members and some 12k posts and have maintained a friendly atmosphere for my users to post. Now recently with on going costs I decided (tough it may be) to attempt to sell Surface Ripple in hope of someone who would be willing to take on the project and leave me to my college work. I just received a new contact on msn who didnt want to buy the site but wanted to declare a partnership instead. This is what he is offering: * To keep the surfaceripple.com domain and forward his faceladder.com domain. * Change the faceladder design to coincide with surface ripple's current template * Merge the database of mine and his site. * Host it all on his account. * Split everything 50/50 including hosting and software costs but halving the profits. * Offer me $150 if I chose to opt out. I can do this and it would indeed benefit the site having 2 admins doing the work however I do not know the guy well and there is nothing stopping him with current proposals taking the database and doing a runner. What do you recommend I do? I thought maybe in exchange for the database I host his domain faceladder.com on my account then that kinda ties him down to something. SR is starved of new people at the moment so I think this would be a perfect opportunity so consider both sides of the argument please. Thanks for any suggestions, Andy ps. sorry if this is the wrong forum to ask I couldn't find anything other forum more relevant. Move it if necessary .