This sound sarcastic and I don't mean for it to sound that way so I'll pick my words carefully as to not offend. I would say it is possible that being a less known corporation than hypertherm it would need to build a corporate base by doing such things, I'm sure it hypertherm didn't have such a following in US already it would need to do things like such to get its foot in the plasma door, I guess I didn't read your whole thread but yes that would be abuse, and really no corporation should warranty that.