I read the posts and your situation, chef. I was cheated on eBay, too, although most of my purchases were fine. I ordered a Rowe pottery pitcher that looked fine in the picture, and the description said it had never been used, just displayed. When I received it, it obviously had been designed to have a lid, which was missing, and the inside was dirty as if flowers and water had been stored in it for a long time -- it was discolored. I voiced my objections to the seller, and she told me it never had a lid and had just sat on her counter without anything in it. Not true.
She also had taken weeks to ship it, and at first I was very nice about her oversight and told her not to worry and that I wouldn't give her a bad feedback. Then I received the item and saw the condition and really should have given her bad feedback. I ended up giving no feedback at all. I'm a wuss.