patrkyhntr making an informed choice is what this is all about. Trying to hear the storries from the dissatisfied and then weighing them against the satisfied storries. Just like you said in your post, some of the dissatisfied and complainers could be for things that actually have no backing to them or to you are actually a benifite [8D].

The one problem that I see with an outfitter' s reference list is just that it is a list prepared from the outfitter. An outfitter that most are trying to avoid, will have no problem in edditting his list to only have favourable comments. Unsolisited comments from sites like listed above has a place in the researching of information. Research all the imformation you can gather then you can make your choice, an educated choice.