cherrybim: “Rav shopping? Nothing wrong with it as long as you follow the psak after the shaila has been asked of the Rav.”
First of all NOT TRUE. Secondly, Rav Moshe Feinstein writes in Dibros Moshe that if you know there is a machlokes haPoskim and you have not personally asked a sheila you may NOT follow the lenient opinion unless you are personally a Posek, rather it is considered a safak and on a d’Oraisa you must go l’chumra.
Chumra shopping is also wrong, you may note that on the CY thread I am promoting the kula side with you.