There is nothing wrong with being pointed in the right direction via PM by any member regarding a listed and trusted vendor on here blessing4u. You are completely correct in basing your decision on reviews on an established vendor thread also. You say you have found an awesome vendor, am I right in saying it is listed on the forum? If so, there shouldn't be any problem, go ahead and make an order, there's no need to do anymore reading at that point. If that's not the case and you have found a vendor not listed anywhere here, then it's entirely up to you whether you order or not and nothing to do with forum content. The main thing here is this community is doing its best to stop you getting scammed by posting reviews of what are considered trusted vendors and by putting what are considered untrustworthy vendors in the Blacklist section. Get your post count up a little more to give you PM access and if you have done the reading and get stuck don't hesitate to contact one of the staff, anyone of us will help you out if you are stuck, it's not against the rules to ask questions! I was new once also, and know how you feel, so please don't hesitate to ask for guidance. Remember also there is a search function, it can be useful for looking up XYZ vendor and see if it is indeed blacklisted, before starting a topic on it.