This is exactly what this forum is all about.

Think "Consumer Reports" for kilts.

If you want to know about the quality of a particular kiltmaker all you need do is write a post and ask our membership.

I can think of a least a dozen instances (in the last month alone) of someone who has purchased, seen in person, or had some information, of a particular kilt or maker and has published their thoughts here.

We used to have a kilt review section here. The problem was that everyone else would jump on the review and start adding so many exteranious comments that the original review sometimes got lost.

But the original intent of a forum where potential buyers could do their research is still working. A direct question asked of our members will almost always get a direct answer.

As a manufacturer, I origanally joined this forum as a way of learning about other manufacturers. I soon found that every review of my product allowed me to improve what I made. I also found that every mistake, design error, every marketing flaw was spread all over these pages. By the people who had purchased my kilts. And that their thoughts and opinions were influancing other buyers.

Every kilt I sell, everyone who visits my shop, everyone who calls me with a question about my product is directed here. I tell them, "visit X Marks, read the reviews of my product. Ask the members what they think of my kilts. You will get a brutally honest review of my kilt from people who own them."

That 'word of mouth' aspect of this fourm is why I spend my money to advertise here.

X Marks is to me the world's best, and most cost effective, way of doing what you are proposing.