I purchased this center channel speaker stand on craigslist once for $20 got it home and realized it was too short. Found a metal working guy who happened to have a shed behind his house. I was thinking what $50 maybe $80. When he had finished, which wasn’t that bad of a job he said $220 please. I choked inside. I kept a straight face and paid him. And truth be told if I needed to have work done again I would’ve called him. The moral of this story is Having people work on your stuff can get really expensive. Choose wisely grasshopper. Once again, so sorry to hear about your so unfortunate experience. What a bummer. For the curious of us, what happened?