If you were looking simply for simpathy, your post should have looked like this:

If you had posted that, then maybe everyone wouldn't have assumed that you were some asshole trying to make a quick buck off the machine. Or, you could realize that you've never even met the people flaming you, forget about it because theyre just random people who don't know you, and go on with your quest for unsuspecting companies to victimize with frivolous lawsuits.