Three separate issues here.

The pedals you bought turned out to be defective. Return or replace them. What is so hard about that?

You made a rash and uninformed buying decision when you bought the mug. Have you never done that before? Move on.

The third issue is what compelled you to take this unconnected and trivial nonsense to the interwebs?
Are you bored?
Is this a passive-aggressive LBS rant? (empty shop reference)