I wouldn’t blame eBay but I would always be very wary of buying any car sight unseen. I sure hope you left TONS of negative feedback on eBay about this place! Here is a car dealer horror story about a guy that bought a bunch of flooring from me a few years ago. He drove out to the West Coast from Kentucky and had also purchased a 3/4 ton van from ebay (and this isn’t eBays fault at all either).
So he came by my place to pick up the flooring and we started loading this stuff…and it was really heavy too with each box of flooring weighing about 50 pounds. I had warned him about the weight in a phone conversation before he bought it too. I told him he would probably need a 1 ton vehicle minimum. To make a long story short…it turns out that at some point someone had taken off the factory emblem on the van he just bought off eBay that said “1/2 ton” and replaced it with a “1 ton” emblem. Of course there is a world of difference between a half ton van and a one ton van but he didn’t know about that. He wrote back later to tell me about what a nightmare it was transporting the stuff back home because he had to buy a trailer and then ended up dropping the flooring somewhere because the van wouldn’t pull it and had to go back later to get it. And that was all because some sleeze bag changed the emblem on the vehicle. Its too bad he couldn’t tell the difference between what the suspensions look like on a half ton van when compared to a one ton. The one ton has more lug nuts, much bigger wheels, and a huge drive shaft and differential. The difference between what one can haul and the other though is like night and day and I’m sure it was probably dangerous trying to drive with the weight he had in it too.