Maybe I am seeing ghosts here, but this whole thread might just be an unusually elaborate version of link spamming.
We have had examples before where the spammer put their links in a context of criticizing the product. Doesn't matter to them, since it's not about attracting forum users to the site in order to sell products directly. It's all about improving their site's Google page rank, via links from highly ranked sites like eevblog.com, and links placed in a critical context work just as well for that.
This particular thread would be unusual in that the original poster took the effort to come back over several days, engage in dialog, and thank a couple of posts from others. But he certainly dropped plenty of links (to HTML pages and images), registered on the forum directly before making the first post, and has not contributed to any other topics.
Should we ask to mods to remove all links and replace them by plain text references to the URLs only? That would keep the information intact for human readers, but make the links useless for a spamming attempt.
@JayDubya -- come to think of it, could you edit your posts to change the links to plain text? That would dispel any concerns that you might be a spammer. Thanks!