Sorry to see all this happen. I didn't get to read through the whole thread, just some bits and pieces.
The bad thing is that since JR took on the project they are going to be stuck with a "bad product" stigma for some time. Not to everybody of course, but there will be some people.
I give them a lot of props for not sending them out the way they sat and then just playing it off like the one they had at the shop fit perfect. I've seen so many companies do that it's ridiculous.
We've all fallen victim to Dan at this point, hell I even lost a wing to this *******.
I hope something good comes out of this and maybe you can use this as a write off. John and Rudy are good people and if they even had the slightest idea something like this would have happened they would have stopped this months ago.
If there is anything I can do to help the situation don't hesitate to ask. I'm Italian so I'm sure I have a cousin that is good at "fixing" these sort of problems.