OMG I am so happy this thread exists here!
I am also a proud former member of AVS! Member since 2004, banned more times than I could count. They seriously ticked me off yesterday when I started calling out Seymour screens as a crappy company. In my quest for an AT screen I ordered sample materials from everybody and found them to be seriously over priced compared to the competition. I mentioned that in their thread. Didnt go over well. Then yesterday a guy comes in posting pics of his frame that had a nasty warped bow in it after hanging for one week. Seymour reps come in and follow that issue with a sales pitch telling everybody to come see em at Cedia. I kinda went off on him telling him that was some serious low class moves that hes making. He should be more worried about his quality control and his current customers instead of selling more faulty screens. He complains to AVS, my post is removed and Im banned from that thread for 14 days.
Then I'm in the Denon thread complaining about my new receiver issue (which is documented on this forum) and an AVS store employee tells me lets get back on track and talk about the other issues. I told him you know what, I'm done with this site. I should be allowed to post negative experiences just as much as the guy posting positive ones. Removing negative comments helps the manufacturers, but NOT the consumers which is what your site is suppose to be about. I ended it with something along the lines of "Since this post will earn me a 3 day ban anyways just delete my account, Im done with it. Sure enough, somebody over there had a nice little orgasm and deleted it extremely quickly.
AVS is too damn commercial friendly. Bunch of money grubbing-g rated-cake n ice cream-panzies who wouldnt know what a backbone was if it fell out of the sky, landed on their face, and started to wiggle!