I had a much better experience or well my partner did right before we became partners. It was a recalled kerosene pump up (like the kerosene lanterns) single burner stove like thing (might have been Coleman but not at all sure). Tried to list on the bay & not only could you not list it but found out the company would pay $280 + shipping to ship it back to them. And that's exactly what he did, I believe they sent the check & a box with a shipping label after he provided them with the serial number.
He was told the company paid a yearly fine for every unit still out there in the public because they were in fact very very dangerous. They explode like a bomb I guess. Anyway this thing was older like 30 years old minimum maybe 40? So your not out of luck with all recalled items, he ended up getting at least double what he figured he could get out of it when he bought it for like a $1.