What we have to lose

[Tobias Lutz]

Why again do we care if vendors and/or retailers post here? I'm confused.

I also chafe at censorship. Especially when it feels like I'm being censored so that other people can make money.

You might want to consider that it is about more than vendors making money off of you. It's about members of this forum having access to specials, promotions, and industry information that we would not otherwise be easily privy to. Not to mention, these folks are smokers/blenders/etc. themselves, and they're just as much a botl/sotl as anyone else who registers.

[Ropey]

You might want to consider that it is about more than vendors making money off of you. It's about members of this forum having access to specials, promotions, and industry information that we would not otherwise be easily privy to.

Guess I value the ability to say what I want more than freebies. To each his own I suppose.

[Tobias Lutz]

Guess I value the ability to say what I want more than freebies. To each his own I suppose.

My point is simply that the person you you take your concerns to is the vendor that you have an issue with. We're a hobbyist forum, not the Better Business Bureau. We are not a platform for bashing retailers, and we are not to be leveraged by people trying to get what they want by posting one-sided attacks on the interwebs.

[UncleFesterESQ]

Allow me to state for the record that I heartily endorse each and every vendor on this site!

Vendors: Please PM me for my address to send me free smokes and cigar accoutrements!

Thank you.