How about a traffic light system for vendors with;
Purple Pre-orders
Green Shipped on time
Amber Late/Unreliable (+ 1 month)
Red Severe Delay/Dishonest/Incompetent (+ 2 months)
Black Scam (taken money and run, or blatant lie)
+1 this idea. With a vendor specific forum, combined with a rating system on each vendor it would solve alot of these issues.
Inaba and BFL should have been tagged and banned by this forum. They've been able to keep the spotlight off them by shipping measley quantities to certain people. Not to mention they are clearly spending money for advertising here.
If you want to cut back on the bad chatter, then the forum should have a set of standards it adheres too.