CA does fill a void but when his descriptions doesn't match the the product he deserve the flack received. When someone like the OP ask this question would you suggest everyone not mention the quality that his products lack?

and here in lies the problem! Just giving a company money and never mentioning the quality just tells a company to keep doing what they're doing thus they never address the lack of quality. If people started to not purchase from him he would be forced to either step up the quality or go out of business. As a business owner he would probably pick to step up the quality.

If they go out of business another company will pickup the license from Rick to make the parts.

You, as well as I, being older remember when you couldn’t buy new parts and longed for the day when someone would reproduce parts. Those days are gone as we have a deluge of people making parts. The next step is to get quality parts.