You are right that they don't belong here on SF. I would go further to say that like other [shopping][1] style [questions][2] the don't belong on SE at all and should be closed as off-topic. 


  [1]: http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/11/qa-is-hard-lets-go-shopping/
  [2]: https://meta.serverfault.com/questions/1182/can-we-come-up-with-a-consensus-opinion-on-purchasing-suggestions