Whoa, this has not been going on for a week, it was a week shipping the axle assembly. The defect/error was not discovered til yesterday.
Short summary: The poster went to a local Farm Pro dealer for help with the axle problem on a JINMA (not a farm pro, which I know is sort of like a square being a rectangle but a rectangle is not necessarily a square, but I think this is an important point).
The dealer arranged for Homier to ship an axle assembly to him and when it arrived and installed, it was found to be a defective unit That brings us to yesterday.
Communications with Homier by telephone are not the greatest, at times they are terrible and it is a weakness in their organization. After two years of doing business with them I have found them to be very interested in doing the right thing to get their customers going, once you get ahold of someone that is... I usually get a returned call within 8 working hours or less, quicker by email.
So before everyone jumps in and wants to condemn Homier in this situation please keep in mind:
1. they were willing to ship a major sub assembly to someone who had not purchased a tractor imported by them.
2. They had a unit in stock to ship (would have been sweet if it was a GOOD unit but it was probably pulled off of a parts tractor and was presumed to be good). I doubt there are just a lot of these complete front axle assemblies sitting on the shelves of the various Jinma importers as brand new never on a tractor units.
I suspect that they either were the only one to have a unit OR had the best price.
Anyway, Wayne has told us he will keep us all informed of the facts and so we should give Homier a chance to correct their error, which was shipping the defective unit.
I can understand Waynes frustration, and there are some other issues concerning dealer mark up and such that he has excersized discresion in making public, but I do think perhaps he was a bit early in taking this issue public, just my opinion, and just to clarify for those who may not already know, I am a Farm Pro dealer (I have answered some questions by email from Wayne on this matter but it was a dealer near him that sold him the axle)