Northern Ireland Outdoors Forum - Hiking, camping and more
General => Gear Questions, Information, Reviews and Competitions => Topic started by: admin on October 02, 2009
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In an attempt to try and cover the upcoming years hosting (this isn't a charity you know ::)) I'd like to try and link to an Amazon aShop. The way that it works is you have a micro shop with a list of specific items that you can link to and when something sells you get a small percentage. I can't see it making much but it's worth a try and might save me cutting the wife and kids pocket money next year to cover bandwidth.
This is what we'd like you to do:
- Pick a list of your favourite, most recommended items (preferrably available through Amazon UK)
- Put a post in the Gear/Reviews section with the heading Review - {item} with information on the item and if possible as in depth a review as you can be bothered
- Repeat for all your most recommended gear
- Once we have enough I'll create an aShop
Amazon actually has quite a list of useful gear at reasonable prices as well as being reliable and fast so it's actually a good place to buy gear anyway.
Please also click the adverts on the site when they seem interesting - this helps a great deal!
On the off chance that there's more income than required then the rest will go on advertising or meets (and not on beer for me, even though I totally deserve it)
Thanks for your help and please all consider posting at least one review - it's the only way we have at the moment to keep things going!
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Thanks for your help and please all consider posting at least one review - it's the only way we have at the moment to keep things going!
A few of us have similar kit, I am thinking along the lines of Thermarest's and jet boils and some members have more specialist gear for instance rock climbing kit.
If we could generate a list of kit, which a few of us own we could note down a few pointers in a pm, sent it to me and I will collate the information into a review. A few items I had initially thought of:
• Salamon Speed Cross shoes
• Thermarest Neo Air Regular
• Alpkit Hunka XL
• Mini Trangia
• Titan Kettle
• Jet Boil original
• Rab vapour rise jacket
• Terra Nova Laser Comp
• Wild Country Zephyros tent
How much does it take to run a forum then?
Other non-outdoor forums I would occasionally visit have a donate tab linked to PayPal to assist with the running costs. Though I appreciate that this forum is free to use I have gained a fair few good friends through meets, I, for one would not be averse to sending a few pennies to assist with the running costs. I am not suggesting charging for membership merely donating when you can.
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thats why i asked, i dont mind shelling out a few pennies either.
though the admin would probably like to pay me just to bugger off lol. :-*
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Did you ever get the aShop up and running? I genuinely think I'd use it, as a new member building a kit. I think I'd feel comfortable if the product is on the NI Wild aShop that it should be reasonably decent.