The forums are by far the best, it keeps the scammers honest by allowing people to post up when there are ridiculous prices, bad sellers, and also to provide reviews, alternatives, and testimonials to good sellers and good products.
The problems are people abusing the posting system my bumping their posts a million times as well as commercial postings that clutter the by owner posts and the year old posts that are bumped by noobs.
Actually, maybe I should stop bitching about it and apply to be a mod of the fs forums so i can do something about it...