I'm sure that the difference was no availability of any 1020 devices to give you.
Best you could do would be to get them to send your 1020 back, but obviously they were unable to fix it... Not knowing what was wrong with the 1020 you sent in, I would imagine it was not software as they would have just flashed it back to stock with the original ROM.
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