So if you've ever googled a kite by name, you've probably come across a kiteshope that, I believe, is in the uk.... Any way, they have like every kite out there listed on their site. Old and new. They have a phantom 12m still listed.... But, I noticed they still have the full blade 4 lineup... Including the 8.5 I want.

Are they legit, or do they just really suck ay updating their site?

On that note.... Check my sig... Any big fb jumpers that no one wants

Are you talking about powerkiteshop by chance?

did you goolge [insert kite name] and hit im feeling lucky? lmao!

ya, i didnt want to blast and/or promote anyone but yes, thats them.... do they have like the kite vault of the gods or what?

Yea, I think they don't update their site. I think it also listed a Phantom 9 and I emailed asking about it and never got a response. The items only seem to show up when you Google but you can't get to them from their home page menu so I'm thinking the pages are not linked but not removed either so Google will ping them.

Yeh, I emailed bout that Phantom recently

Quote:

Ryan - sorry but we have not had Phantom's available for many years now. You may be looking at an old page. Regards, Team Powerkiteshop

Aw.... Weak....

For what it's worth, the reason that sites don't "update" some of their pages is a Search Engine Optimization (SEO) thing. The short version of this is that you keep the page on your server, but don't link to it from your main page. The search engines still find the page and in turn direct more traffic to your site. There are a lot of steps in between, but you should get the basic idea.

Dirty trick? Yes. Valuable tool? Yes. Do I do it? Yes. Oh well, I guess I found exactly what I sell my soul for.

Call it what you will, SEO is a pretty important part of any online business model. The easy way to use this technique is to just remove all of your links from a specific product and leave the page up for anyone to find. The better way is to put a note on the page saying that the product has been discontinued.

I'm not making any excuses, just offering an explanation for why you might run into these types of pages.

-Mike

Good for getting stats on old kites though ...

@Kamikuza

Exactly!!!! Some of the retailers still host manuals for older models long after the manufacturers have taken them down. Always helpful when working with new-to-you kites.

ATB,
Sam

Yeah that kite shop is only a short bus ride away from me, its a very nice store!!

I think they keep those pages on their site just for historical fun. The portions of the site with the old kites on them are also of an old format no longer used. Most of the time it will say "No longer available" or "Replaced with X". I don't know why they'd keep an inventory of S-Arcs :P hehehe

Look at this picture. Must be pretty old:

http://www.powerkiteshop.com/images/shop/pksshop052.jpg

Hallelujah!

@Kami/Indiigo

For the longest time the Flysurfer Canada website had old data but search engines didn't hit it. You could go in and type the next or previous page id number in sequence in the URL and dig up old gems. Sadly he purged the site recently but maybe the USA or DE site still has ancient data that you can hit the same way.

I've bought from that other place and it was surprisingly inexpensive and shipping was a breeze.