I’ve shared this before but here goes again.
when a new owner asks me where they should buy their parts I tell them that if they talk to enough owners, they will hear horror stories about every vendor and if that’s reason to cross them off the list, you will have no one you can purchase anything from.
I then go on to tell them that whoever they deal with, they should confirm that the vendor actually has the part in their hands as they speak, and to ensure that delivery is not dependent on some other source first supplying it to the vendor from which you make the purchase
I tell them after a number of purchases from different vendors they too, will have their list of who they prefer to do business with and who they prefer to avoid doing business with.
but the one “vendor” that most of us never have any troubles with is a fellow owner. Many of us have a ridiculous stash of parts gathering dust. It just takes someone to ask for them to get packaged and sent to their new home
My 2¢
Larry