This so-called 'straight up advice' might not be as helpful as you might think.  You are better off doing your own research like the rest of us.  Shop guys for the most part know what they are talking about when it comes to skis, I definitely can not say the same thing about the 'ski experts' of NS.  Odds are that you are getting more recommendations based on hype and the lemming-like thinking of this ski collective than first hand opinions.
Quit being lazy and do your own damn decision making.  It's good to get some advice every now and then, but you look like an incapable pussy with all of your threads.  And it does affect the rest of us because we have to skip over all of your bullshit threads.
In summary, it's ok to ask questions regarding equipment, but not 100's of questions all pertaining to the same skis, over and over.