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Old 10-10-2009, 04:08 PM   #26 (permalink)
Piwoslaw
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We got talking about one of the dive operations that was featured in that months issue. One of the guys running the trip popped up and said that dive operation paid between $15-$25K for that article. He said they had been approached a few times for a feature article and it always came with a pretty hefty price tag. I understand with the Ski magazines this is standard operation procedures with almost every article in the magazine.

I'd bet K&N paid a pretty large advertising fee for that featured piece on their air filter.
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Posted October 30 2008 01:29 PM by Mark Williams

If you haven't figured it out by now, we take our testing pretty seriously around here.
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As much as some of the haters out there want you to believe we don't drive any of the vehicles we write about and simply choose a winner based on who offers us the largest box of cash, it simply isn't true.
I guess that pertains to trucks only, not other products they "test".
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