
MJ, that has got to be one of the most annoying things, I know of someone who had a mint Porsche 944, it wasn't very old at the time and rarely went out, and someone stubbed out a cigarette on the bonnet, that didn't polish out, so they admitted defeat and sold it to my friend. Luckily yours polished out.
Another thing that sometimes gets me when people lean on your car, often with metal studs in jeans likely to dent/scratch paintwork, or on a 300 they are drawn to the rear quarter, where on a hatchback is rather flexible on the outer skin, making it easily dentable.
Will, did you get a reply from the seller? Hope it's all sorted now, cheap debadging by someone else is not appreciated. Someone couldn't live with having V**xhall on the back of the van I now own and debadged that, in that case it's ok.
Pete