Yea, I used some flash banners on a few gay sites a couple years ago. They did pull pretty well at that time, but probably no better than a well written text link does today. I'd like to think my text has gotten better since then anyway
Agree with the others, these days...probably the majority of surfers would never see em anyway. Or, they'd trigger some alarm and turn off the sale entirely.
After so many sponsors wanted banners yanked a few months ago, I went text only on free sites for a while. Noticed text does pull as well if not better than banners. Just recently, I've started using banners again...primarily because it's easier than pulling the text out of my head at times
Long answer sorry...
Short answer is...nope, I don't really even consider using flash banners these days. Too many downsides to em.