In reply to Dumitru Brinzan.

I actually do read the reviews. That's rather an important job... to find the themes that won't 'choke' our staff (contractor) developers. While I do a lot of the development myself, especially on a new theme we've not used before, we farm stuff out and I don't want to give someone a tool that I have not vetted. So I try to determine if the review is honest.

I talk with a number of design shops and like me, designers shopping for a theme spend as much time looking at the demo as we do looking at the HTML and the CSS of the product (often via one of those un-minify sties.)

For those of you who put up the semi-bogus review sites, often the URL alone gives it away. If that doesn't, then often the effusive copy will. No theme is 100% great! A review that does not point out a few faults or dislikes is almost always bogus. If you a read enough of these things it does not take long to figure out what is 'real' and what is 'shill."