
Originally Posted by
Anthony Roberts
I hope so.
Sponsors pay alot of money to be able to sell their products on this board- it's their money that keeps this board running. I see no problem with selling a good product, and promoting it where they have paid to advertise (and theirs is good, as I've tried it, and am currently on their IGF and MGF).
I promote my book here, Steroid-Peptides promotes their Peptides, Lion promotes his Chems, etc....
I don't see a problem with any of this.
That money, from those sponsors (and profit from my book as well) goes into the many projects which make this site better. Funny, but nobody complained when the owner took thousands of dollars (*earned through sponsorship money) and PAID to have all new profiles written up for every steroid.
Take, for example, the fact that the owner of this site paid me $200/profile for all the work I did in the profile forum. Now, steroid.com has more in-depth profiles than any other site on the 'net. He also paid me to write out the history of steroids, a full article on steroid side effects, another one on steroids in sports, and to redo the entire steroid effectiveness chart, as well as to do a totally new "how to do injections" article (all of which are on the front page). Oh...and he paid other members for their work on this site as well, not just me. Nobody was complaining then. Right?
Where does that money that he pays me and others come from? Where does the money for the Cisco routers, back-up servers, and web-hosting come from?
Sponsors.
It's the sponsors who provide the capital which allows steroid.com to continually be upgraded and provide new articles and information to the users, who get all of that information for ****ing free.
You know why steroid.com doesn't have a profile forum that's just shitty copy/paste's from other sites? Because money is constantly being re-invested into the site, which all comes from sponsors (the members don't pay, right?). The sponsors provide the money, which allows this site to exist, and the owner (Brian) graciously re-invests it in providing as much quality information to all of the members as possible, for FREE. Then the members complain about the sponsors, which I frankly think is bullshit. They pay to be here and to promote their products, and that's part of what allows the board to be as good as it is. And FREE TO THE MEMBERS.
So next time you ask yourself "Why is this sponsor aggressively promoting his/her product" I think the thought going through your head should be "Thank God this site has sponsors who provide quality products, and pay to advertise here- so the information remains the best on the 'net, and FREE to me"
Just my .02.