Sump Pump replacement questions/options

For the record, here’s what you said in an earlier thread

You had TWO plumbers tell you not to go anywhere near a big box store and you ended up having to replace the pump a year later anyways (of course it could have been a fluke). I have to wonder if part of the reason for that is that to get a Zoeller pump you have to go to an actual plumbing store (or a place like Grainger) which most non-plumbers don’t frequent and probably don’t even realize exist.