JAB, I don't think the position marker on the tenth fret is out of the ordinary for banjos. I've seen plenty of them there on pictures and real life. Sometimes they are at the 9th, sometimes at the 10th.

My long neck Harmony reso-tone arrived last week. I was somewhat disappointed to see that the "beautiful" Bakelite pot had been chrome plated (I didn't know they did that) and also it was not only missing the fifth string tuner as I expected but also the first string tuner post and gear - though the shaft was there. The picture on eBay was terribly out of focus. But I still think the price I paid was worth it and I knew going in it was a fixer upper. I'll attribute the other things to the seller's ignorance of banjos, not malevolence.