I truely am very sorry to hear you are having this problem. Especially with the high costs involved. You are a reputable forum member and seller. The whole history and situation is not clear to me, but I trust you have a valid complaint. It's also not clear if you are trying to reclaim subsequent labor costs as you are providing that information. I'm no lawyer, but I don't think costs related to installation or removal are generally covered. The total cost just makes the situation that much worse for you. If you buy a brand new widget part for your car from Rock Auto, and you take it to your local mechanic to install, but afterwards they find it is bad and they have to remove it, Rock Auto is not going to reimbuse you for that labor. Maybe a small claims court would? Using Rock auto as another example they are going to cover the part only for x number of days irregardless of the number of miles. The timing between making the purchase and reporting the problem is critical. If the seller thinks he has a defense around the situation I think it would help a lot if he would step up and say what that is. Forum pressure has proven to work in the past.

This is not really comparable to this situation, but it reminded me that 10 years ago I made a purchase from a forum member that was a bad exprience which I don't recall mentioning before. It may have been my 4th or 5th purchase off the forum, and the prior ones turned out well. It was a car part item. The seller had many items listed and did not post any pictures or give any condition information. Given the condition of the item I received it was not usable and I just threw it out. The seller was exiting the forum as he sold his car and was selling off the items he had collected. I suspect he had replaced this item on his car, and held on to the old one which is what I received. The cost involved was significantly lower, and the seller was going to be gone, so I just left it to a sour lesson learned. Fortunately, I've not had any other forum purchase problems.