As long as ignorance and stupidity exist in the world, Scabs the keychopper goes around and wrenches from innocent typewriters what he thinks will turn him at least a small profit.  Here is what I plan to do--at least here in Central Texas:  I'm going to keep all my old parts machines--all pre-war machines with the glass top keys.  I also suspect that many of these keychopped pre-war typewriters can take key levers from postwar machines as well, so I plan to keep my parts machines.  Any day I see a keychopped machine, and I will be searching,  I'm going to grab that sucker, remove the twisted keylevers the rest of the way (I've done this kind of operation before for different reasons), install the keylevers I remove from my parts typewriters, and make one machine out of the two (or three) typewriters I have.  Scabs can only get so many typewriters, but he won't get 'em all.

Unfortunately, that eBay link is dead, so I have no idea what you saw. From post #3 I assume it was a Remington upstrike model?