Anyway regardless of the outcome I've just thrown my hat into the ring and bought a 500GB Sata Solid State Hard Drive for $17.
I'm sure that I'll be one of the many that will be doing a PayPal claim to return my funds to me when this seller absconds with all the loot and leaves PayPal holding the baby. Poor eBay and PayPal, at times I feel they get everything they deserve for the way they treat customers and the scams that they get caught up in without doing anything about them earlier in the piece.
Cheers,
BB.
PS I'll be the first one to eat humble pie if all of the above is not the case.