>>4704i dont live in muttmerica and i dont use amazog
also they all have serial numbers, on the shell and the board so i'd have to solder out analog sticks and solder them into my own controller which is a pain in the ass because they have very high thermal mass
not even my heated bed managed to pull those sticks off, so i just had to cut the 4 ground pins of the metal shell to get it off
tl;dr you need to break the analog stick (at least the shell) to get it soldered off without melting the entire PCB even with a heated bed and hot air gun
in the end i'd have 2 broken controllers and need to buy new chinesium analog sticks for both to send one of them back