You're pretty much on target. Except it didn't cost you a penny to find out.
This site is interesting. Biased, but biased in favour of common sense in my opinion.
Operation Clambake.
I only started really looked into Scientology after reading about it in the Cellar. It's not such a big deal in the UK, but a colleague of mine once almost fell for their "take our personality test - OMG you're so damaged we can help you!" Luckily he was a trainee at the time, on a low wage - when he talked to his usually generous parents about Scientology they shocked him by saying if he had any more to do with them they'd stop paying his rent.