Yep, that is the guy who is selling the outer door handle gaskets too.
Good seller, as you say. I buy a lot from him.
Never had trouble.
I think that is a clever way to help out the dealers to clear old / slow moving stock. They for sure have so many parts which they ordered by mistake and have it on stock for a long time.
I know it from our parts department how many wrong ordered parts are on stock for a long time. We write them off and then we offer them to our other subsidiaries at very low prices.
Working capital reduction is a magic word nowadays by the controlling departments.