the owner did himself no favours with so little photos.

I don't know about that.  It was listed with a pretty short auction time frame - was it something like four days and in the original listing it did not mention that the pin wasn't working.  Caveat emptor and all that but to not disclose that is disgraceful.  Note that the question answers were all posted today and I didn't notice them when I looked in early this morning from work.  I'd emailed the seller and was thinking of having a look at it, but never got up his way - again I think it listed on fri and he said it could only be viewed in business hours.   I'd mark him down as a seller to be wary of.

Hope the buyer did alright out of it.