ORIGINAL: pkrska
Get a LHS (local hobby store) and get them to order things for you. They have insurance, they also will stand behind a lot of their products because of experience. If they carry them, they will have more than one and can exchange should there be a problem.
Why not just order it yourself? putting a bandaid over the problem. The real problem is the GWS customer service. Besides, over here at the LHS I frequent, if I were to walk in with a bad ESC or motor I bought I got a feeling they'd say too bad and I'd be outta cash. Buy from Tower, they save your last 2 years worth of invoices so you can just print it out and have proof for date of the sale