in response to po parts mn^^^
i agree, he SHOULD get a refund. i assumed i guess he bought off ebay. and alot of times sellers on there are kinda buyer beware. you bid you bought. etc etc.
plus hes gonna be out shipping cost if he had it shipped.
i sell quite a bit online to and would refund full price but shippings another story.
im for him i hope he does get his money back
just from experiences i had and have only heard of
buying online can be a real pain, not to mention a costly learning experience.
but back to my theory of just get it rebuilt, say it was a 97 crank you got but when you got it apart you notice a bearing or 2 were bad, but still runnable, the seller wouldnt have misrepresented it, it was removed from a running motor, but aint gonna run much longer, now you have 2 cranks that need rebuilt. this happened to a friend of mine he bought an xlt motor and i told him to rebuild his! the one he bought was a running motor he heard it run, but needed crank seals. when it came apart the crank needed as much work as his. now he was way in the hole and still needed to get a crank.
i only offer my thoughts an opinions, hopefully to help others out from my experiences.