Didn't come to my mind at the point that someone would sell a modified PC drive and not mention about it.
I want you to try to look at this from Amigakit's perspective for a second. Here is a guy that knows a lot about Amiga. He knows there were 11 different OEM drive mechanisms at various times in Amiga history for these models. Some were purpose built as Amiga only drives through the whole manufacturing process. Some were not and equated to being PC drives at some point during the manufacturing process.
From his informed perspective he is not selling anything different at all. And from his perspective he is trying to be informative to his customers upfront by saying the drive mechanisms may vary. Maybe the next batch won't have the dremel cut for instance for all we know.
You are pissing on the reputation of someone who is generally highly regarded by the community and seemed to be trying to do the right thing, both in his description and in his willingness to take the drives back even though its not in his return policy that he needs to. You are not being reasonable. Worse, there is every indication he would have answered any and all questions you might have posed honestly, if you had bothered to take the time.
You are buying parts in what is almost 2009 for a 1992 machine. Amigakit's average customer is not so naive and they are not a big company like Walmart to just absorb any costs just to make you 100 percent happy even though you are in the wrong.
When I ordered I didn't remember that not all A1200/A600 drives were the same.
Your problem, not theirs, and something they would have been happy to educate you on had you asked them it seems.
Build quality? Already had troubles getting one of the drives out from the 3.5" bay as one off the sides on the upper shell had bend to a wrong position during this modification process and I didn't notice it.
Thank the heavens. Maybe there is a possibility that you will see this as a separate issue. You think that the build quality is bad due to the dremel work thats fine and a fair opinion to hold. And a fair one to complain about. So long as you don't mask it like you have been as something else. But listing that these drives at one point were PC compatibles would not tell you the build quality. This issue has nothing to do with how they list the product on the website. Its not a misrepresentation issue. A fair thing for you to do would have been to complain to Amigakit on the quality issue and have seen what they had to say about that first, just between the two of you. And worst case if they told you to piss off (or simply left if unresolved to your satisfaction), then you could have posted a friendly heads up to all on the board that you don't think the build quality of the current drives they sell is so great as a heads up. Thats a entirely different thing then what you did.