This was a fun one!
The "sale" item was a 1971 Ford 302 engine.
Fellow sYc forum member "ED&KEN" (Ken) sent me a PM:
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I was SELLING the engine on eBay....he sent a phony second chance offer to one of the bidders....the bidder forwarded it to me. I replied to the guy telling him I wanted to buy MY engine from HIM.
Now he is offering to sell me MY OWN ENGINE!!!
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So I contacted the scammer and pretended I was a 3rd bidder and had learned that the first buyer had defaulted. I was offering $2700 for the engine. (Yikes! It is afterall, a
FORD! 
)
Anyway, Ken and I started baiting him from our own ends and strung him along for a week.
Ken was "Rob Myeorgan"
I was "Roy L. Payne"
Ken was delayed in sending $$ due to rectal problems, whereas I was delayed when I was hit by an errantly-tossed beer bottle after the final out of the #4 World Series game in St. Louis.
On top of that, when I awoke in the hospital, my pants were undone!
Ken sent off his bogus Western Union receipt for $3K yesterday, while I waited until today. This way we'd have him running for two days straight!
But on top of this, I sent him an intentionally blurred version of the WU-Xfer so he couldn't read it. Now he'll have to wait one more day while I transfer a readable version.
The new version of the (attached) Western Union-Xfer will be in TIFF format - at about 4 MEGS. This will ensure that he spends a good half hour downloading the file in his filthy, stinking rathole Internet cafe.
I hope he's paying a premium and is on dial-up access!
Anyway, I wanted to thank Ken for coming to me with this scammer and for the fun exchanges we had in making this scammer miserable!
eBay Scammers--->
Thank you for reading this.
Mac