Im going to say,It looks like douglas cut the mids with a razor blade in hopes to get a full refund and repair them and get free mids.Im not going to say they couldnt have been screwed up when he received them but thats not so likely.Now if they were $150 and were damaged like that I would be pissed.Or maybe he cut some olds ones like that for the pictures? Either way I'd say if hes going to refund you then you need to send the items back in their current state no questions asked and just say screw it.Also I wish the seller (thekid) would have taken the casing off of them when he took the pics so we would know exactly whats going on and this problem would have never happened.