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General question as I’m not sure how to proceed.
I’ve been looking for an AMC magneto for awhile now, at least a year. About 2 weeks ago a guy on a different forum a frequent mentions in a post he’s putting one up for sale on eBay. On the eBay listing all of the pictures show a basically brand new Vertex mag with a new tag on it from Joe Hunt. I call Joe Hunt with the serial number of the mag and confirm it was recently rebuilt by them and given a clean bill of health.

The eBay listing goes unsold so I message the guy on the forum and we come to an agreement to buy it. I PayPal F&F him the money as he is a well known parts seller both on the forum and through a business he runs selling amc parts.

It comes in last night well packaged and I open it up. Immediately upon picking it up I hear something loose inside the mag. And once I begin inspecting it I find a literal hole in the side. Removing the cap I find the rotor broke off the shaft of the magneto. There’s also 2 small cracks at the top of the magneto where the cap sits. And the cap rotation stickers are backwards leading me to believe this is not the original cap.

Looking at the photos on the eBay listing it looks like he used the Joe Hunt tag to cover the small hole and didn’t disclose any damage. Saying it was freshly rebuilt(which again, I confirmed myself)

What I believe happened is someone was screwing around and zapped themselves with it by spinning it, then did what they could to hide the damage.

I messaged the guy on the forum with pictures. He’s read it but hasn’t responded and I paid F&F as he is a known guy who’s also a club president. I haven’t posted anything on that forum yet as I’m going to give him until tomorrow to respond.

I paid good money for this. Damn near the price of having Joe Hunt build me a new one without the wait.

In my personal opinion I think the fair thing to do is to pay for a new rotor, and to have the mag tested. As long as it checks out good cover payment for testing and have us part ways. I have a feeling that’s not going to be what happens and by the time this is done I’ll end up spending more than the cost of a brand new Magneto to get this one to 100%.

Pictures are the ones off eBay, then some of the damage when I opened it up.