So I'm down another day's income, and honestly starting to feel like a bit of a mug given the responses here.
You would be a mug if you dealt with them again ;-)
Don't be surprised if you haven't heard the end of it. They might well lose the item and then attack you again. If that happens, do not waste any more time or money on them.
Anyway i would have told them that i will send the switch back but it is not possible to stay at home.
It doesn't. He is probably even by law obligated to tell.
And yeah there is still something called moral/ethics.
You don't need to become a dick only because someone else is one.
Do normal people actually have lawyers? That they know well enough to hang out socially with?
Don't get me wrong, I like my friends, but none of them are lawyers, nor do they work for me - which I imagine would be swell.