just an FYI, guys. Due to virality of this post and the waves of support on twitter, I got phone calls from both paypal executive offices and ebay's fraud teams that not only did resolve my issues, but also hinted at a serious effort at apprehending this fraudulent individual.

Its very unfortunate that it took this community outcry to get this far. Im currently working on a "post-mortem" overview of my what happened in the past few days resolution-wise and ill post it on my blog.

Tech-wise, its pretty amazing how much load a static octopress-based blog hosted for free on github pages would handle.

Also im pretty glad I chose to host the pictures on picasaweb. Hosting them on S3 would turn out pretty pricey :)