EK has already issued the statement that the plating is not to fault, for them to issue another statement saying they will/are investigating their plating process would be an admission that there is something wrong with their plating. . .this will never happen. I wouldn't be surprised one bit if the whole "report" thing was a stall tactic in order for them to correct the problem and start shipping product with improved plating.

As for when this started, I don't think we'll ever find out an exact time but we can probably get fairly close if we go back over old posts. Here's one from Feb. http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...3&postcount=50, I'm sure it goes back before this.