The reason for the new links / re-links is that ECF is the world's largest
ecig website, but only earns the tiniest fraction of the income that a trade site of the same sort of stature generates -
ecig vendors with this sort of website traffic earn tens of millions a year.
Essentially this is a community site but the costs are the same as any big site with high traffic. We run adverts and use some links that earn us commission. Without that we'd have to close down.