[talkingcars]

It was a private sale and he checked it over before hand. You have gone way beyond by giving him refunds which most people wouldn't have done. I guess he thinks you are a push over - unfortunatly by buying outside ebay he hasn't a leg to stand on and then he shot himself in the foot by dismantaling the thing, he should have taken it to a proper engineer - ask him to return it to you in the state it was when he took it or to do one.