I've been on a few review boards and I believe that a large number of SP clients don't know about these boards on their first visit. Most people you know might research the shit out of anything they spend money on, but that's a small percentage of everyone else and those people are often idiots who act first and think later.
To understand just how naive and dumb the people who actually do find review boards can be, you only have to look at the kinds of questions the average board newb asks:
"Check out this ad, she's so hot - any Intel?" - Google image search clearly reveals stolen pics, too dumb to know how to right click and "search this image"
"Can someone tell me who to see?" No info on what they like, no attempt to read a few reviews
"Is this SP any good?" Too dumb or lazy to use the search function
It seems to me that you associate with mostly smart people and assume most of the world is operating at your level. Lucky you... I sadly know lots of morons who would never think to do research before paying a lot of money for something. ;-)
