Customer bought an eBay Range Rover sight unseen

Wow. The breadth and depth of people's stupidity continues to amaze me as always. We got a 2001 Land Rover Range Rover towed in yesterday because "the transmission is slipping. It has no acceleration." We find out that the daughter is her at a christian college and dad is in South Carolina. He bought the vehicle sight unseen from a Florida eBay guy and had it shipped to Minnesota for his daughter. He told me the guy said it was a great vehicle and he never had any problems or repairs on it. I get in and it barely moves it is running so bad. The check engine light is not on. We get it in and we see the heads are brand new. Clean and not a speck of dirt or oil on them. We pull codes and there are 18 codes - and of course the light is not capable of working. I find a physically broken mass airflow sensor. I tell the guy that he was lied to and I needed to start with the known problem, clear the codes and drive it. Also I need to pull the cluster and see if the bulb is burned out or gone. The mass airflow makes it run like it should but I get the O2 codes back. The cluster has two seals on it that are broken. I take it apart and find 5 pieces of cardboard stuffed down the tube leading to the SES light. How can you buy any car - let alone a Range Rover sight unseen. With towing, diagnostics, a mass airflow sensor, dash cluster removal / repair and all four oxygen sensors he is upwards of $1800. It would have paid to have hired someone to look at the vehicle first. I hope this is a lesson learned for this guy.