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The difference is that people voluntarily support Wayne's business here because regardless of the forums, Pelican is an intelligently-run business that excels at customer service and has (generally) good prices and policies. By contrast, that "other" site simply sucks up to a bunch of paying sponsors who might be legit or not, whose products might be good or not and whose owners might be scrupulous or not (believe me, I've run into both varieties over there - some paying sponsors are great, others are scam artists by another name). Rennlist doesn't care - they simply snap up the checks from the sponsors and then give them blanket immunity to peddle their stuff on their forum - caveat emptor implied but not even ever stated.

However, honest and objective assessment of these paying sponsors is absolutely VERBOTEN over there (I've been chastised for it in the past and I've seen other people outright banned for it) and to make it worse, "reviews" tend to turn into a circle jerk/ass-kissing festival most of the time where people are pretty close to brow-beaten into buying from these vendors by a bunch of brownnosers thinking they'll score points with the adminstration/moderators by plugging the paying sponsors. It's a total sham. And you have to pay for the privilege as well. It's analogous to having to pay for commercials on TV that are peddling (occasionally) junky products.

That site is a train wreck. The level of maturity on the tech. forums (at least the 944 forum, with regularity) is maybe two or three grade levels above the juvenile, misspelling-laden, obscenity-filled, ADD content of your average Honda tuner forum. Is that worth paying for? Hardly.