Just showed up this afternoon, was complete and in perfect condition. The rep for the auction company apologized again claiming this kind of thing is extremely rare and never should have happened. Delivery cost me nothing, so they trucked it 400 miles one way at the auction companies expense through their sales reps.
I told them anyone who bid on the item was bidding on everything complete, turns out they contacted the other bidders to do a "survey" of why they bid and what they were bidding on and it appears I was right, take the extra's out the seller wanted to keep and none of the other bidders were even interested in the original piece at all, basically they were after the extra's and that was all.
Last year I bought a piece of shop equipment off an online auction, went to go get it, had all the correct forms in hand, loading was included. The auction rep asked me, get this, what the item was and what it did.................I asked him if it was indeed mine, he said it was, I told him I'd answer any or all of his questions after it was loaded, chained down and ready to leave. He was a bit puzzled as to why, but agreed, it took about two hours to move enough stuff to get to it, get it loaded onto my lowboy and chained down ready to go. Just as I was about to pull out he came over to get an answer. So I told him, he completely misidentified the item, I only stumbled across it by accident online, told him what it was, that it was only two years old, had never been used and that it cost almost 60,000 bucks new today, had every bit of tooling with it included, also never used and because of his error, I bought it for 600 bucks on his sale and he loaded it for free besides. The look on the guys face was complete shock and horror as I waved to him and told him to have a great day, I was pretty sure I just did and it was only getting better. Every once in a while a person gets lucky on items they buy online, it really helps if those listing stuff have no clue as to what it is, I also noticed the auction site took it off their items sold portion completely, like it never existed or was ever sold, imagine that??