A friend paid $1,500 for a consultant/service for his son. When the consultant didn't return calls in a timely fashion he called me to see if I had an answer. One day he asked why he's paying $1,500 for a service when he's getting better results from me free.
He asked how I know all this stuff. I told him I don't know it all. What I didn't experience I either learned on hasbaseballweb or I post a question to get multiple responses from multiple experiences.
I walked him through making a list of fifty potential colleges and turned him over to this site. Everything he did from that day forward was more timely and better focused.
The consultant didn't know his kid that well. He had him emaililing the wrong college baseball programs relative to talent level. Imagine starting out a D3 prospect (where he played) with Stanford and Vanderbilt because of grades while disregarding baseball potential.