Whatta dick!! I feel your anguish. I bought an rx-5150 off a guy on eBay,several years back. Asked him if he had any experience packing radios so that they would survive the U.S.Mail. He told me not to worry and that he knew what he was doing. Well it arrived 5 or 6 days later. It wasn't even in a cardboard box!!! He snagged a butt load of those bubble lined flat rate 9.5 × 11 envelopes from the poist office. Wrapped it in those and then shipped them FedEx!!! Needless to say it was all fu_ked up by the time I got it. So I opened a case with EBay,got all my cabbage back but,the radio was FUBAR. So I totally get where your at. Sorry to hear this happened to you. I hope you can find another one and use the parts from you tweeked one to make one good one outta two mediocre radios.