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Some company called Gear Patrol just bought DPR Review so closure averted and DPR has been saved! 
DPReview.com to close
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Just had the same email. Happy days
Some company called Gear Patrol just bought DPR Review so closure averted and DPR has been saved!
Great news. It would have been a loss for sure.
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Yup indeed
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WHO? WHAT? WHEN? WHY?
Never even heard of this site.
Never even heard of this site.
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Like the sarcasm
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No sarcasm, never heard of it until I posted that.
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Got to be. Are you into photography at all?
If so. Chances of you not knowing the site is rare!
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No not into photography. That's why I haven't heard of it. You usually hear of online sites though even though you not into something if they are big.
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I can understand why there might be no companies wanting to pick up the staff costs but maintaining the forum should be fairly insignificant especially for a company that already has infrastructure, so I never quite understood Amazon's desire to abandon it.
As I understand it, Amazon had lumped it in to a division that they wanted to close so it was just swept up with the general closure. Fortunately and uncharacteristically, they listened to the users and sold it. Now, for me, Gear Patrol is a site I'd never heard of.
Anybody else remember when DPR was a British web site?
Anybody else remember when DPR was a British web site?