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Interesting read, best hoodie trick for noobs

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Created by Lovely > 9 months ago, 4 Apr 2008
Lovely
QLD, 248 posts
4 Apr 2008 9:23PM
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Found this on another forum, interesting.


I bought a Best kite through a shop near London for only one reason...price. I work in a pub, and don't have a lot of money. But the owner of the shop is a good chap, and helped me out. So I thought anyway...

Even then with the deal I got, I felt like a cheap whore by getting a Best kite. The Waroo is about the most milk-toast, boring, stripped-down kite money can buy.

Oddly enough, they call me a "team rider" because I paid a few quid for it. Whippdeedoo!

Then I get this email below??? What the f#$k? Are they that lame that I have to be bribed to post comments on forums for them? I actually have to sacrifice my integrity just to get a cheap deal, on a cheap kite?

Screw that. I'm selling this piece of ****e, and going with a brand that has more integrity.

READ THIS EMAIL BELOW...

[Moderator: <<<private email contents removed>>>]

merman
QLD, 431 posts
4 Apr 2008 9:57PM
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Sooooo ah who wants to touch this one???? not me

Yakfat Zebra
19 posts
4 Apr 2008 8:41PM
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Yeah I'll Touch it...

Lovely, if I read your post correctly you may win a free kite trip to Spain for talking ** anonymously on an internet forum?

Awesome! [}:)]

Don't try and count this post though . It's not very pro-Best.

I say , change your username and let the pimpin' begin!

poor relative
WA, 9105 posts
4 Apr 2008 8:58PM
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I think its time for Pat to flex that muscle.
Last in before delete?

newo
WA, 250 posts
4 Apr 2008 10:05PM
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I am very interested in a hoodie made out of my waroo as it will let me feel like I am kiting during the off season, please contact me.

Yakfat Zebra
19 posts
4 Apr 2008 11:19PM
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poor relative said...

I think its time for Pat to flex that muscle.
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I don't think the topic needs to be deleted.

Caveat emptor...Buyer beware.

Subversive (including buzz) marketing is rife! If you buy a kite because a random recommends it on a kite forum you're a turkey, no question.

The real big industry players do it better. The pharmaceutical industry do it with your local GP. So, don't be naive and think it doesn't happen on this site. Just recognize that the internet is not a critically reviewed, objective source. That's reality.


brucex
QLD, 701 posts
5 Apr 2008 7:53AM
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so i quess Lovely wont be getting a hoodie then!

Paul1
QLD, 1011 posts
5 Apr 2008 9:20AM
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Lovely said...

Found this on another forum, interesting.

kiteforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=2347244



Even then with the deal I got, I felt like a cheap whore by getting a Best kite. The Waroo is about the most milk-toast, boring, stripped-down kite money can buy.




If you really think this, why did you buy the kite? You could have bought a supposedly better brand, near new, second hand kite for the same money, or are you just slagging off Best because someone there has pi**ed you off for some reason?

kiterdude
NSW, 54 posts
5 Apr 2008 11:09AM
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I always wondered why hunglong and friends were so passionate about their posts.

rossouwe
VIC, 73 posts
5 Apr 2008 12:54PM
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Yakfat Zebra said...

Yeah I'll Touch it...

Lovely, if I read your post correctly you may win a free kite trip to Spain for talking ** anonymously on an internet forum?

Awesome! [}:)]

Don't try and count this post though . It's not very pro-Best.

I say , change your username and let the pimpin' begin!


I agree.

Mate, you can get a free trip to spain for not doing much at all.

Lovely
QLD, 248 posts
5 Apr 2008 12:15PM
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rossouwe said...

Yakfat Zebra said...

Yeah I'll Touch it...

Lovely, if I read your post correctly you may win a free kite trip to Spain for talking ** anonymously on an internet forum?

Awesome! [}:)]

Don't try and count this post though . It's not very pro-Best.

I say , change your username and let the pimpin' begin!


I agree.

Mate, you can get a free trip to spain for not doing much at all.


You will have to work hard. Virtually all gear posts are by pimps.
Do retailers posts count for a free trip to Spain?

sq225917
3 posts
7 Apr 2008 12:55AM
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Blimey this one has travelled around a bit, and looks almost nothing like the original email that i wrote for Frazer to send to UK retailers.

The original email was only sent to UK retailers for sending out to their shop riders, it was sent to no one else by Best.

Obviously one of those retailers forwarded it out to another of their brands, who then made up an identity and posted it on kiteforum. There is no fat barmaid, end of story. ( not that we dislike curvacious ladies).

The original email stated that Frazer was checking posts from all shop riders and the poster of the most relevant and informative posts would win a trip to the Tarfia dealer meeting. Simple as that, offering shop riders something back for their forum efforts and keeping an eye on the posting situation as well.

I think Frazer had the balance between stimulating shop riders to respond to questions and ensuring no spam just right.

It does however highlight the fact that the staff at some brands will go to any length to try and dirty another brand. After all haven't 'they' just created a new identity to spam the forums with bull****.

I guess the irony is lost on them.




simon

Lovely
QLD, 248 posts
7 Apr 2008 3:19AM
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The Sqwank above must get discounts on hoodies.

GreenPat
QLD, 4093 posts
7 Apr 2008 12:42PM
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poor relative said...

I think its time for Pat to flex that muscle.
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Grey area this one, had to go to the top man.



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