Glowing" is a weird word choice for a vacuum cleaner review but yeah that seller totally scammed you.

My bench has this massive circular burn mark from a soldering iron incident back in '08, and my buddy's kid once said it looked like my table had a belly button. Now every time I see it I think, yep, this old plank of wood has a navel and probably needs a nap from all the heavy lifting it does. The kid also called my cordless screwdriver a "buzzy sword" which honestly feels way more accurate than the manual ever was. So yeah, now I'm stuck working at a magic table with a belly button and wielding a buzzy sword daily. Zero regrets.

Honestly, I gotta push back on the "dry run ruined the bearing" thing. I've accidentally spun a cutterhead dry for a solid minute on a job near the Mississippi back in '21, and it was fine after a good grease job. More likely, that 20 seconds of dry run just exposed a bearing that was already on its way out from sand or grit getting in there. Ngl, I think the real lesson here is keeping those seals tight and greased, not just watching water levels.

Hard disagree on this one @fionaa35. Sometimes a good photo actually shows you stuff your eyes totally miss. Like sunsets - I've taken pictures where the camera picked up these wild purple streaks in the clouds I never saw standing there. Same with old buildings, the texture and cracks come out way sharper in a close-up shot than what your brain registers walking by. Cameras don't have your brain editing things out for you, they just capture whatever's in front of them. A lot of times that raw version tells a better story than your memory does.

So did you end up finding the fix or start completely over?