Sorry Joe and don't take this personally but I had to laugh out loud just a bit because you just reminded me so much of my wife. If given a tough purchase decision, she will poll all of her friends via phone, in person, facebook, emails etc. Then she promptly goes and buys whatever she was leaning towards in the first place.

I realize you are actually trying to put logic into the decision instead of emotion, but it still made me chuckle.

With great power comes Awesome irresponsibility.