Originally Posted by Arsbars

wow.. where to start on this.

Handlebars - a shop marks up the price of products. It's how they can stay in business. If they didn't - they would be charging 50% more for labor, and shipping.

Pedalboy - it sounds like you snapped the lower leg sanction. If its the "m" part of the fork, you can usually order it and have the fork rebuilt.