Quoted from shacklersrevenge:

Believe me. You haven't had enough experience or owned enough pins, to comment on what a good example is and what isn't.

Quoted from Atomicboy:

It's a shame so many of these PF's exhibited this planking issue on BSD's. The op's done a good job detailing this, but in the end, many search out the ones that don't have this issue. They are surprisingly harder to get without planking than many think.
The hesitation in buying is most certainly the planking. PF wear/issues is #1 for most.

Quoted from MinusWorlds:

Yeah now you can move on to destroying the next FS thread
I kid, I kid...
But seriously you owe Joe a few hundred bucks

Quoted from shacklersrevenge:

That's a bit melodramatic. Nobody burned anyone at the stake, it just wasn't a cool way to go about it.
It's kind of like asking how far along someone is in their pregnancy, when they're not pregnant.
props to the OP!

Quoted from ledge:

what sort of immature response is that. you dont need to visit this thread. and whats more, a needless comment.
and contrary to popular opinion (yours) the op owes you nothing. i guess you were only joking, but still ...... not cool.

Quoted from Atomicboy:

Take it easy guys. It's a forum, and anything is open for debate over just posting to the market, that's the rules here - contrcutive comments about the state of the machine are fine, and this has been re-hashed at pinside many time. When person after person states "can't believe it's not sold" "why hasn't this sold yet???" when the reason is obvious, and someone nuts up and says it, so long as it's done tastefully, which it was, *I* think it's more rude to shit on that person for doing so.
The obvious answer was there was PF planking that was turning people off. Again, nothing against the op or his machine, he didn't do it, and he properly addressed the issues and showed it in photos.
But expecting everyone to ignore the elephant in the room, and to bitch about anyone who dares to mention it is what is flat out lame. No one said it was a piece of shit, a couple just made the comments on what the problem is. Fair enough in the forum.
Do we all have to fart rose pedals non stop here? Can people not be thumbed down for valid posts that have no ill intent towards others? Read a little more into the intent before crapping on others with comments and the thumbs down please.