Complaint Review: Ian Hepditch Winsted

I was shopping for a vintage British motor cycle and ran across a ad in a online Britsh cycle magazine. Seller was located in Portland, OR a city of which I am familiar. We corresponded, he graduated from the same college as my son, he was not sure he still wanted to sell, he had great photos and said his father bought it new and his sons weren't into old bikes. The asking price was on the low side if the condition matched the photos. I was going to fly up from CA to check it out , then it turned out he  moved to Columbus Ohio to be near his wife's family 2 months ago. To far I thought to go. After several days of emails and two phone calls I went for it and wired him $7500 for the bike and shipping he could arrange with a friend of his son. Two weeks later hdd was responding but having excuses  why it had not ship. I started doing searches that I should have done before and found false addresses,  no hits on his name on tracking sites, out of service burner phones. I was taken like a lamb to slaughter.