If you are a private source then you please your existing customers, the ones who came to you bc you were and expect you to be private, privately. You are nothing but a bullshitter. This is nothing more than a marketing tactic to draw more customers through means that are anything but private.
Apparently your customers were more than happy with you to rep you here. How much happier are they that you now have a purely public presence here? Is it worth the deception? If you actually gave a shit about your customers, the same ones who already "loved you so much" before your public presence then you would have explained to them why such a public presence on a public forum was a bad idea. You would have been testing from the beginning. You could have just as easily went to another forum, made a private group and invited all your customer base to find and deal with you there but instead you chose the most publicly viewed and indexed steroid forum on the goddamned Internet. Kudos to you for being so duplicitous and deceptive that your own ppl can't even see it but those unburdened by those ties can see it plain as day.