I noticed ghosting on my playfield a week after I bought it from my Distributor in early Oct 2017. It was a floor model but only had 300 plays on it so it was practically a new in box. The playfield had a date of Sep 2016 so it was part of the bad batch of playfields. Supposedly anything before Oct 20th 2016 was bad. I contacted my distributor who got me into contact with Pat over at Stern. They agreed that it was covered on the replacement warranty and sent me an empty box. We took out the old playfield and sent it to Stern. The whole process was quick. Roughly 2 weeks. Couple of things to mention. My playfield had a ton of mods on it and my distributor told me to leave them in for he believed Stern would take them out and send back. I did not want to trust that so my wife and I took them all out. We were not able to take out the green captive balls in the left captive ball area so I left those in and emailed Pat at Stern twice that I was not able to get those and if they could please send those back to me. I just received the playfield today and they did not replace the green balls. I will contact Pat to see if I can get those back. When I looked at the date of the new playfield it was not "new". It had a date of December 2016. A year old. It is new in that it was never played on but it seems that Stern has a bunch of these laying around from a year ago. Because it was produced after Oct 2016 my hope is that the issues were fixed. I did notice a small bubble on the left side of the storage facility insert. Not sure if this will become ghosting but it does concern me a bit. We shall see. One last thing...we had purchased a premium table. Stern sent us an LE for it is signed by John Trudeau. Not sure if this was a mistake on Sterns part or they had so many of these signed ones laying around that they wanted to get rid of and thought it would be an extra bonus since this was a hassle. Not sure how I think about this since the recent John Trudeau fiasco though.....