Oh wow, hi there. I didn't even see all this.
A friend of mine drunk bought this off eBay a few months ago, tried to get the replaced tsuka off to put it back in the original, couldn't, sold the original tsuka, tsuba, and saya(because "the blade is glued inside", he said, wth?), told me about it recently and asked me to find a replacement for those parts because he regretted selling them and was going to have me put the blade in the repro tsuka.
I got the wood tsuka off no problem, and then he told me he doesn't want to deal with it at all anymore and is having me sell it for him. Once I told him the tang doesn't have any engravings on it he just wanted to write it off completely. I told him that the mass produced models won't have that on there.
So, here we are. It's pretty sad but he's a bit of a weeb and an idiot so I wasn't surprised when he told me the story.