Or maybe you missed the part where I said that I had already purchased parts from Dimond before I found out about the issue with the fork, so naturally I was inclined to try to figure out a solution other than turn around and send it all back in scrap the whole thing?

The onus is not on Dimond to make that bike right and I've never once implied that was the case. As a poster mentioned earlier, in the state of California where I live (though granted, Dimond does not), it is the legal responsibility of the seller to honor their quoted price. They didn't, and in my opinion took a bad approach about it so that's the issue I have brought up here. I thought that was pretty clear but I guess not.

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