Originally Posted by BellaBoo

For shops these days I guess it's typical. I took my machine to a new shop that kept telling me it would take a few more days after a week of checking on my machine. I found out that the repairman (owner's husband) took a good part off mine to repair another machine and was looking for a 'used' one to put back on my machine. He said it was done all the time. ? The shop went into bankruptcy about a year later. Dumb bunch didn't realize quilters/sewers talk to each other.