Brethren the prophet tells us the concept of transparency is that you can see straight through it the transparent ways of some of our retailers, importers and manufactures is a little disconcerting. Surely this forum is for mutual meeting of the kiting minds (although this in itself s somewhat small gathering) but it is not for the dissemination of obvious advertising rather than bore us all with the Im so great phraseology please take a tiny ad on the side, I am sure that are either free or very cheap.
I and my camel Hazel would like to see a little more intellect and a little less hard sell.

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i have to agree with the generally disagreeable raghead on this one. it is high time decay and dvnt (our highest profile freeloaders) paid their dues and took a banner ad like everyone else.

then , their soft / hard sell / yadda yadda would be a little easier to stomach and they would not risk the terrible fate of osama's revenge.

can you guys invest a buck a day for legitimising your marketing to a captive audience of 300 kiters? even 150 kiters plus blownaway is good value at twice the price. i guess even the 'least of the east' needs to upgrade his boards once in a while.

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