I'm sure a reasonable "buy it now" price would resolve the disposition of the saw matter rather quickly by any number of AS members given an accurate and honest description of current condition.
Aside from that, the other issues involving how things evolved to this particular juncture have a whole new opportunity to be re-evaluated and investigated as a result of the recipient of the property from the auction getting on board and exercising some diligence and seemingly sound judgement in assessing the matter from his standpoint....despite having to wade through some of the crap in this thread to establish his presence. Dude had some balls and should be commended for owning his end of this issue and evidently desiring to make it right for whatever reasons got him to that level of mutual involvement with Randy.
I'm not suggesting that he should feel responsible to assist in any investigative matters Randy may still choose to initiate as a result of all this, but I'd at least like to think that he's already realized he'll certainly have more friends here than enemies after all the dust settles and things are ultimately worked out whether he goes that route or not.
But if there was ever an opportunity to come down hard on the USPS and their practices in these situations? This sure would seem to be an ideal case for it.
And unless I missed something going really bad while typing this?