As the posters above have stated you should take everything posted in these forums with a pinch of salt, feedback manipulation via shill accounts is rife, both on the forums and the main site itself. Vendors using shill buyer accounts to boost stats and post spurious feedback and the same for on here. It's not all about posting favorable reviews either, some shill accounts are used to attack others to discredit vendors, other forum users and even the mods. The best thing you can do it read as much as you can and in some circumstances contact established members for some advice as they are well placed to know the lay of the land and even the reincarnated versions of new vendors who have previously gone rogue. That might make it all sound to hard basket but it's not that difficult to navigate your way around things, just takes a few months to really suss this place out if you know what to look for.