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Are any of the lesser known kava vendors good?

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kl.stevev

Kava Curious
I've been drinking for about 6 months now, and I've found some not talked about vendors. Are any of these any good?
BKH is amazing! and KBR is good, so I'm not really looking for too much more.
Here are some I've wondered about:

http://www.kanakakava.com/index.html
Their chocolate bars are in stock. I remember someone here was gonna try them.

http://www.pinnercreekorganics.com/kava.html

http://www.rzorzo.com/about-rzo.html
This looks a little messed up. But for 2$s a pop, I'd risk it.

And this is my first post! (Banana)
 
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kl.new2kava

Kava Enthusiast
I have wondered about lesser known vendors as well, their is no reason they could not be great. I have been considering ordering from paradisegypsy which is in Somoan and sells stone ground Somoan kava, it would be about 30$ a pound including shipping but it would take quite awhile coming from Somoa. I have noticed sometimes the best known vendor are the worst, if you type in "kava" on any search engine konakava is the first to come up always and has the most advertising on the net as well as the worst kava. I even noticed that when I was looking up nakamalathome on google to find N@H they konokava popped up before N@H with a nakamal at home right above the nakamalathome link, they have caught on that N@H is known to sell good kava and have been trying to baboozle N@Hs potential clients into buying their pretty much bunk konakava. There are also sellers on ebay that sometimes have okay looking deals.

I have just bought enough kava to know that there are shady vendors and crappy kava out there and I have found several that I trust and have gotten great results from. For me I would feel like a knob if I wasted 30-50$ on a someone I'd never heard to get burned or just sold crappy kava than to go with stone or boroguro and enjoy getting my moneys worth.
 
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kl.stevev

Kava Curious
paradisegypsy looks like it could be good. I might get some actually.

I started out with kona kava. Now I have 1lb of this strange kava, why me!

And, yeah, I've been ripped off my fair share, it sucks... obviously.
 
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kl.new2kava

Kava Enthusiast
stevev said:
paradisegypsy looks like it could be good. I might get some actually.

I started out with kona kava. Now I have 1lb of this strange kava, why me!

And, yeah, I've been ripped off my fair share, it sucks... obviously.
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You can actually get paradise gypsy on ebay and ebay has a really comprehensive and agressive cutomer service policy even more so if you use paypal. From what I hear their pro-customer system makes it really hard on the vendors, but yields pretty good service. Buying on ebay through paypal basically makes it virtually impossible to get burned. Theres one other guy on there that has a few different instants one made from stump and the other from lateral roots and they have various kavas made from base stump or lateral, the tsunami smoother sounds pretty cool. There was guy selling kava extract paste on the cheap but he vanished. Sorry about your kona, many of us have been there as well.
 
Prince Philip

Prince Philip

Duke of Edinborogu
Stevev, after a few shells, watch this

(flash video)

 

Pay special attention to what he says about Google and TV-DVD combo players.

Really, though, you should try them and submit a review.  They're probably fairly decent.

Tongan kava is more of a TED kava for some reason.  I think it's because the "wow, that's brilliant!" factor goes so well with the feeling of being Tonged.
 
Ed!

Ed!

Kava Enthusiast
Great justification of my profession (User Experience). I may have to use that video.
 
Prince Philip

Prince Philip

Duke of Edinborogu
Consider it a Gift from Philip. (Sorry for the general lack of Cargo. John Frum will bring you lots of Cargo on February 15th... we're just ironing out the year here at HQ).
 
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