The Gemmy Reaching Reaper

I bought two Reaching Reapers by Gemmy at my local BX for 16.99$ a pice. Ihe first one worked for about 10 minutes than one arm stopped working, the second one did not spread his arms at all after I took him out of the box. Well what to expect for 16.99? Will bring both back and get the money back. Big disappointment !