So, I figure the buyer is reading this now, which is cool. Good for him.
Tuesday, he contacted me via telephone and text message to tell me how great the truck is, and how he put a tank of gas through it. 16-gallon tank, 11 mpg, so he put about 175 miles on it, give or take. He told me how much he likes driving it, and how he got a windshield put in, and some other stuff done to it.
Then, this guy sent me a message Thursday night, saying the typical scam "Hey, the transmission has some issues, and the engine smokes" trying to get eBay to open a case. eBay's policy is that once he pays, and gets the title, it's his. Not reversible. So, I ignored his obviously scammy message.
Then, Saturday sometime, he lodged a PayPal "Not as Described" case. After some research, I discovered that PayPal's Buyer Protection doesn't cover vehicles. End of statement. So I spent total about 2 hours on the phone with PayPal getting that case decided in my favor and my account unfrozen, not to mention the 8 or so hours I spent getting information together to prove that the sale was as-is with no warranty. Once I got through to a person who could do something with PayPal, they decided the case in my favor on the phone. Even if they didn't cover vehicles, the eBay ad states pretty clearly the condition.
Now, I get to wait. Hopefully he's not stupid, and realizes that he bought a 28 year old truck, without a windshield, as-is, and declined to inspect in-person but instead sent a transportation company (who may or may not have done stupid shit with it, but probably not) to pick it up. Hopefully this guy isn't a fool and realizes that I can call his bluff, and I know about the "oh, I bought this car and now the transmission is not working right" scam -- but if not, I'm legally prepared to collect damages for his frivolous abuses of the eBay and PayPal systems that ultimately wasted my weekend, my wife's weekend, and negatively impacted my daughter's weekend.
So, eBay was great. PayPal was great. The buyer wasn't.