It is my belief that there are a few individuals on the forum that are "preying" on the new users lack of knowledge and experience by sending them a “private message” directing to a different website so that they can try and control the outcome of their shopping. If this is happening please let us know so we can get a moderator involved.
There are many experienced and reputable members here that would more than happy to share knowledge, ideas and opinions on the general forum so that you can get a balanced view. By the same right there are those that would not like you to get the opinion of whole forum as it would be of personal benefit to them.
Again, if this is happening let us know so that we can keep it above board. If it isn't, GREAT!