Bought a MSD 8534 off a member here ( see Photo of what I got)

Glad to hear that things are starting to calm down. I thought about chiming in earlier to report that I'd seen a lot of rust on our MSD reluctors but decided to avoid mixing words with some of the angrier commenters.

I felt empathy for you Roy but also thought the seller might have honestly believed you were trying to play bait & switch with him. It's obvious in the pics that you weren't. I guess there wouldn't have been any controversy if the seller had just politely asked for evidence before giving you the brush off.

Hopefully this will be resolved with a determination of 'no harm - no foul'.