I apologise. As moderator part of my job is to delete all attempts at free advertising. Our income comes largely from advertising and our genuine advertisers are naturally upset if someone is seen to get free publicity.

When a new person comes on to the forum and posts a link, this is nearly always a plug for something. I usually delete the whole thread, but as I wasn't sure in your case I left the name up but deleted the link.

It's nice when people post a good experience: it's safer not to include a link, as if it's a reputable business it can be found via Google.

I tend not to bother reading reviews of any company, In the past I left a deserved bad review of a company I used on a certain business directories website and the company then just paid the said directory to remove the negative review.

Now I always go with word of mouth from people who I know and trust to tell the truth.

There are plenty of review sites ... Avant has given you the reasons as to why it was treated with suspicion, and others of us have explained the same to you.

There is a thread (now on page 2 of the 'motoring discussion') concerning leasing Mercedes cars. It looks horribly like advertising spam, which is why Avant has removed the link and details off it. They'd even appeared to create a second account to reply to the original post !

Sadly, those (and lots of posts regarding kit-che-ns, for some reason) seem to be on here regularly. I'm sure there are others which don't even 'go live'.

So, yes, there is distrust. Mainly because being a cynic on any forum these days is essential.