hellfire: I don't think i would want the item now. If they are going to mess with you on a sale like this, who knows what could be wrong with what they send you and then have your headache. better to just have your cash.
To chopper, in one of your replies you mentioned you didn't conduct this madness. Can you elaborate then on exactly who did? I am crossing my fingers that its not the whole brothers-cousins-sisters-newphews former roommate after you were hit by a meteor kind of explanation, but you never know...