Benefits
Early Guidance: Forums often provide a sounding board. In a forum members can discuss a particular product that was bought by a member within the group, and found, the product was just not what it was cracked up to be. Worse still, when a asked for refund as promised by the product owner, the owner said their guarantee was just for thirty days and that the time to ask for refund was over.
Better Choices
This issue actually came up because somebody in the forum wanted to buy the same product and wanted to inquire from the forum members whether to go ahead with the purchase or not. Therein lies the one obstacle...if the news is bad about the product, Ithen no charm can make you want to buy the same product from this owner.