CobraEye, 

I did Google "vue 7 rip off" and found only 3 references to it. Two comments, similar to yours, on forums of other 3D products. In fact one of the companies is in direct competition with Vue. No surprise.

Interestingly, just like yourself, there is no contact link, or any other sort of validating information for either of the posters. It's almost as if they don't want to be identified.

The other link was actually here on Renderosity where unbelievably someone was actually calling the FREE version of Pioneer a 'rip-off.' Had a good chuckle on that one!