edit: For those that wish to simply send a paypal contribution to OLD4570, his address is old4570 (at) yahoo.com
As all of you are probably aware, BLF member "OLD4570" has been very busy collecting batteries, chargers, lights and other products to test and review on our behalf. His reviews are thorough and detailed, which allows us to make informed pre-purchase decisions. He has also taken leadership in creating a battery database to report test results from most all of the batteries we use or consider purchasing. With the overwhelming amount of miserable JUNK coming out of China in relation to our hobby, I cant tell you how many times a thorough review has saved many of us from wasting money on something not even fit for the garbage can! It takes time and money to amass the items worth your money, and OLD works hard to find them and get the word out to us.
OLD4570 is a struggling student with a real passion for this hobby. As you can imagine, it must be very difficult for him to continue bringing us a constant flow of reviews without some assistance. Well there is something we can all do to help him, and it wont cost us anything but a few minutes of our time.
Probably nearly everyone has purchased from our excellent preferred vendor manafont.com, or has seriously considered it. Their A+ rating and great deals for quality products and customer service is legendary around here and well deserved. Manafont offers a referral program to reward a member for bringing more business to their web site.
Although the rewards are small, if we each take the one following step as a group, there might be enough to generate a few extra dollars for "old" to buy more of the items that we might all be considering for ourselves... so OLD can review them... so we can buy them... so we can all be happy flashaholics... and buy more stuff... and earn more points to buy even more stuff.
1) If you dont have a manfont account and want one, please click:
http://www.manafont.com/index.php?rp=08288
and fill in the blanks. Its that simple! You're done! Now, every time you make a purchase through manafont, "OLD" will be rewarded and given a few manafont points that he can use towards his future purchases. There is no negative impact on your account and you also still continue accumulating manafont points of your own to use towards your purchases.
2) If you already have a manafont account - first, spend all your points on your next purchase (I had less than $1 worth of points so I just abandoned the account). Next, stop using that account and create a new one... go to step 1 and click the link to create your new account. Its that easy... all done!
This isnt going to make OLD a rich man by any means, but it should help alleviate some of the financial burden.
Id like to thank OLD4570 and the many, many others that contribute heavily in sharing their knowledge and making this the best friendly flashlight forum anywhere.
Mr. Admin, can you please sticky this?
Thanks everyone!
I will update this post as additional referral programs are discovered to assist our man-of-the-week.