So what do we have here?

We are waiting until Tuesday, to see if they reopen, before we start looking for another source. I don't want to stick any business with a 4,000p plus item, in any country. It's just common courtesy,which isn't so common anymore.

You seem to have missed the point. While I don't, for a second, consider that your false and misleading information about the permanent closure of the hardware store was intentional, an acknowledgement, at least, that your incorrect information needlessly caused some concern amongst friends of the owners, and possibly to some of the customers of Ferreteria del Centro, would appear to be in order.
This is, after all, Mexico. Even ZihuaRob, who discourages discussion of some of the nastier bits of life here in Paradise, raised the spectre of "extortion" as a possible explanation for the permanent closing that you announced.
I also suggest that you buck-up on your Spanish.