Rule #whatever, well one of my rules at least.
When buying a collectible on ebay, just skip over anything from China, Singapore, Tiawain area, etc. Unless you are looking for a recast.
Depending on when you bought it on ebay, couldnt you report/fight it and just get your money back?
After getting Illidan and thinking on repainting his tats...for 350, I wish I picked up Gromm, so I could repaint him green. Him being brown instead of green plus how low in my Warcraft character rankings equals when I didnt pick him up at the time.