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They certainly have the capability of replacing the hardware but they know they have you over a barrel because they choose the winner, which is them!
They would just eat a few hundred bucks in unrealized profits... which they're never gonna do willingly. They probably have an arbitration clause to prevent class action suits too because that's what everybody lawful evil does these days.
I need you to realize that you're 100% wrong. Their warranty states that the refund will be the market price at the time the warranty case is opened.
You don't even need a lawyer to win this one.