I suspect that the low price on the auto-inject is simply because they are for older Macs and the demand is lower and slower.

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I don't doubt your logic, trag, but that is certainly NOT the way it works on EBAY!

So again, it is curious to me that Shreve is pricing drives in just the OPPOSITE way that EBAY does. To me it indicates that Shreve is either an honest firm, pricing older stuff lower than the newer (as it should be in most cases), or they are deceptively hiding problems about the older equipment (very possible because older stuff is typically in worse shape than the new).

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It is also possible that they have a vast number of those drives on hand and are looking at their storage costs. The stories I heard from folks who actually went to the Shreve auction several years ago were along the lines of truck loads (big panel truck loads) of various older motherboards and such. It is possible that Shreve has been collecting and disassembling surplus Macs for a generation. The number of floppy drives they could have accumulated that way might number in the 1000s.

But so long as they have a return policy and if they pay for return shipping too, even if the drive is bad you aren't out anything. But if their shipping is expensive and if you get stuck with shipping charges for a replacement too, then you need to either ask more questions before you buy or go to someone else.

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I have no knowledge of their current return policies or practices. In the past, meaning ten years ago or so, I saw what seemed like serious complaints about their handling of order errors. There were enough of these complaints in a similar vein to make me take notice, but that was long ago and stuff you read on the internet comes with that crystaline NaCl formation...