You can call BS all day long if you like. I have absolutely no stake in this game, I don't sell machines, not trying to sell the OP a machine. We (the shop I worked at in the 90's) had the worst one lasered and the following error was somewhere north of .002"/inch. The owner was famous for buying "floor models" and machines that were rumored to have "fallen off the truck", so who knows?. I spent more time handworking the mess that came off those machines than I did machining them.

If you're happy with yours, kudos. I might have one if it was given to me...then again, I'd more likely try to trade it for something a little nicer.

WTF does "operator error" have to do with lousy finishes? "Oops, I forgot to override the programmer's crappy program again...my mistake!" (I take no personal offense in that statement, as I have not been an "operator" since around 1986.)

Do you think this section of the forum might be a little busier if these machines were *actually* the bees knees?