roadskater.net

Roadskater.net (RSN1.net and RSN2.com) is free. You don't have to pay anything to use the site, to join, to view the articles without joining, or to be part of our inline skating, cycling and charity exercise team. You don't have to buy a jersey that says Roadskater.net or anything else.

However, often people have wanted to know how to help, so here are a few ways. All are voluntary and are totally free to you, unless you decide to make a donation....

The most direct way to help Roadskater.net is to just make a small donation by check, credit card or Paypal balance via Paypal. You do NOT have to join Paypal to make a donation. Paypal earns about 30 cents plus 2.9% of each donation, which is a competitive fee for their service, and that way I don't know anyone's credit card or checking info.

One of the best ways to help is just to contribute to the content of Roadskater.net. When you do that, you most likely help someone or entertain someone we've never met before. One of our goals is to share our love of our sport with people searching via Google, Yahoo, MSN, Ask and other searches on the web, and to create something for the world.

Another way is to just use the site naturally, reading the sponsor text and graphic messages and reacting to those naturally and only when interested. I don't want anyone to do anything they wouldn't want to already. If it's not a great deal for you, don't do it! Please check these and the links at the bottom of this page:

• click the Shop & Support RSN menu item to get to this page.
• use the eBay and Amazon search boxes on most pages of the site to enter those sites.
• click through skatebay.com for cool skate and bike searches and to buy anything else on eBay.com.

If you want to make a purchase from my websites listed in this section, just request that the profit go completely to Roadskater.net operations. My sites offer a variety of German, Polish, South African and other mostly European products. Just remember to put a message in the note and all the profits will go to supporting the site. These are all products I have selected myself for quality:

• BlakeLambert.com has a variety of items below.
• Discobeds.com offers sturdy bunkable Disc-O-Bed (discobed) army cots that set up quickly and stow away even more quickly.
• KosenUSA.com and KoesenUSA.com offer handmade realistic plush stuffed animals by Kösen (as they say in Germany: Kösener Spielzeug Manufaktur, Plüschtiere und Stoffpuppen, Kuscheltiere aus Bad Kösen für Sammler, Kinder und Kleinkinder. In the USA, known as Kosen or by the slightly more astute, Koesen).
• BritaPitcherFilters.com and AnnaWaterFilters.com offer universal replacement water filter pitcher filters by Brita (not Britta) and PUR (not pure) filter pitchers.
• CDDVDCases.com and EjectorCases.com offer unique side-trigger soft plastic Ejector kick-out CD/DVD cases.
• GermanScissors.com and KretzerScissors.com offer a full line of German-made, Kretzer Solingen steel scissors, which are the best I've EmergencyScissors.com and RobinSafetyBoy.com offer the Robin Safety Boy EMT Safety Scissors...Yes Ma, you can run with scissors. These are the best scissors I've ever used. There really is a difference between these and Chinese made items with brands you know stamped on them.
• IkebanaShears.com offers the perfect tool from Kretzer of Germany for the Japanese flower art.
• KevlarScissors.com offers the scissors NASA and others have used to cut Kevlar, the Kretzer Finny Alpha 73020/1 Kevlar industrial shears.
• BergerSeidle.com offers Berger-Seidle America's select polyurethane finishes and other environmentally sensitive flooring products from one of the leaders in the world for immaculate floor finishes. The products include waterborne fillers and sealers like AquaChoice GelFill, TrowelFiller, FlexSealer, Omnigold satin and semi-gloss, plus 2KPU satin and semi-gloss finish, BSA L93 non-slip floor care maintenance and BSA L94 water-based floor care cleaner. Also popular is ToughSeal matching caulking for filling natural floors before refinishing and repairs.
• BosseFlowerPouches.com offers rugged Bosse flower pouches for vertical gardening applications.
• MovieTechABC.com offers MovieTech and ABC Products inertial stabilization, dollies and cranes for handheld, DV, television and film production.

Another way to help is to let me know using site/feedback if there is a merchant you regularly purchase from online that you would like to shop with in support of Roadskater.net. I'll do what I can to get into their program and to provide a link.

For now, let me say that eBay has been the most successful and cooperative, and when you buy anything if you click through here just before that purchase (and sometimes for a few days before) there's a good chance some of what eBay would otherwise keep will come to Roadskater.net. New eBay account signups that become active eBay members are especially helpful.

I'm convinced that careful eBay auction purchases can be one of the best ways to try out skating and cycling equipment (with auctions, especially, you usually don't pay but a dollar or so more than someone else was willing to pay in most cases). Sticking with 100% positive feedback sellers who have 100 or more total transactions, or at least 10 100% positive selling transactions, say, reduces the risk, as does reading the entire auction ad, every word. These are conservative numbers, and if you're eBay savvy you'll know what's safe.

No matter what, thanks for reading and helping to create a resource for the world that will last longer we will, hopefully!

The following companies have agreed to donate a very small percentage of any purchase you make to help cover the costs of roadskater.net (rsn1.net and rsn2.com). If everything works out and your cookies are on and the moon is right, RSN should get a small bit of the purchase...BUT PLEASE DON'T BUY ANYTHING BECAUSE OF THIS because it might not register as a credit to the site anyway, and I specifically do NOT want to generate a purchase you wouldn't otherwise make or have you pay more for something just to help the site. If you buy from any of the links below and feel like it, let me know and I'll check on the transaction to see if the affiliate credit took hold.

Some recent notable links:

* Blockbuster Online * Britannica * BuildDirect * Clon Communications * Eddie Bauer Outlet * Exposures * Gevalia * GNC * JC Whitney * Kohl's * iRobot.com (Roomba) * Leaps and Bounds * One Step Ahead * Orvis * Overtons * Pro-White * RedEnvelope * RoadRunnerSports * Swell *

Please check out these graphic links too:
00inkjets.com
1&1 Internet Web Hosting and Domain Name Sales
123Inkjets.com
4inkjets!
6pm.com
A.T. Cross
AAA Fruit Baskets
Abebooks.com - New, Used, Rare Books & Textbooks
Abt Electronics
Adobe
Alienware
AllBrands.com
Allsop
Altrec.com Outdoors
AT&T
B & B Electronics
Backcountry.com
Baseball Express
Bass Pro Shops
Batteriesplus.com
Beyond.com Career Network
Bidz.com UK
bloomingbulb.com
BoatersWorld.com
Bookbyte.com
BootBay.com
Botanic Choice
Buy.com USA and Buy.com CA
CameraWorld.com
CareerBuilder.com
Chef's Corner
Citrix® GoToMyPC
CollegiateMall.com
Comcast.com
Cooking.com
CosmeticMall.com
Diamond.com
DirectlyHome
Discovery Channel Store
DKNY
Dog.com
dotPhoto
Dr. Leonard's Healthcare/Carol Wright Gifts
Dr. Leonard's Healthcare/Carol Wright Gifts
Earthlink Internet Services
eBags
eCampus.com
Edmunds.com - Cars / Trucks / SUV
Fossil
Freedom Medical Services
Freelance Work Exchange
Fushirts
GameFly
Gardens Alive!
GoDaddy.com
GoToMeeting / GoToWebinar
Gourmet.org
Great British Heritage Pass
Guitar Center
Gurney's Seed and Nursery Co.
Hammacher Schlemmer
Henry Fields Seed and Nursery Co.
Hockey Giant
HockeyDeals.com
Homeclick
HostMonster.com
Hotels.com
HP Home & Home Office Store
Inkgrabber.com
InsideStore.com
Instawares
JustFlowers.com
Kalyx.com
Lehman's
Little Giant Ladder Systems
Magellan's Travel Supplies
Maps.com
Medifast Diet
MiniTots
Moosejaw
Musician's Friend
Mvelopes Personal
Nashbar
NationalGeographic online store
NetZero Internet
Nitro-Pak
Northern Tool
NOVICA
Organize.com
Panda Software: Antivirus & Security Software
Paragon Sports
Performance Bike
PETCO Animal Supplies
PhotoAlley.com
PhotoWorks.com
ProBoardShop.com
RAILPASS.com
RealNetworks - Music - News - Sports - Media Player
RedWagons.com
REI
Restaurant.com
ReStockIt.com
RideGear
Ritzpix
Roxio: Digital Media Software for both PC & Mac
Sandals & Beaches Resorts
Shirtcity USA - design your own shirt
Shoebuy.com
Site59
SkinStore.com
Smooth Corp. - RugArea.com and iFLOOR.com
Smugmug, Inc.
Sony - Computers & Electronics
SpaLook.com
Spreadshirt Designer US
StacksandStacks
Starbucks Store
SummitOnline
Taylor Gifts
The House
The New York Pass
The Tire Rack
The Wall Street Journal
ThinkGeek
TigerGPS.com
Timbuk2
Trails.com
Travelocity
Trend Micro
uBid.com
USA TODAY
uShip
Viator- tours, activities and things to do on vacation
VistaPrint.com
Windowbox.com
WolfCamera.com
WorldTraveler
X10 Wireless Technology
Yardiac.com - The Ultimate Garden Center
Zappos.com
Zazzle Personalized Gifts
Zone Diet Delivery