John offered to have you send it back to him and he would fix it for free and pay for shipping both ways. You posted his original invoice to you for the transmission over on your similar rant at forabodiesonly. You bought that transmission from him almost 2 years ago! Most places would have told you the warranty is long past, but John offered to fix it for you at no cost. You decided not to send it back to him and bring it somewhere else, this is 100% on you now. There is no shop in the world that would pay someone else to fix something 2 years after it was purchased when they offered to fix it themselves for you at no charge.