LKQ back on with their BS...

Junkyards should be first come, first serve. You reacted better than I would have. I'd have bolted it back on and cross threaded it after dragging it back through the yard to ruin it
right? in what world does that make an ounce of sense?

so how does it work now? i see that they have the car online, go over there and see if the parts are still on it and that they're okay, then walk my *** back up to the window and ask if they're still available and how much they are (prices are changed on a whim and adhere to no kind, sort or type of reasoning) and if they are go all the way back to the car and pull the stuff and hope that somebody doesn't "buy" it before i get back to the window and pay?

absolutely insane.

i was hot about it for sure. and 100% i would've taken that thing and thrown it in some dark corner of a minivan on the otherside of the yard where they'd have to spend all day looking for it. imagine if you'd just spent a few hrs yanking a motor for them to pull that business on you!