Badges!! WE DON'T NEED NO STINKING BADGES!!!! 
Seriously though, what a load of crap that seller is spewing! <img border="0" alt="[grrrrrrr]" title="" src="graemlins/cussing.gif" /> Look in the blue book and it's pretty easy for a complete novice to deduce that the AE is not the symbol for Mexico! <img border="0" title="" alt="[Eek!]" src="eek.gif" /> It retains 70% it the blue (re-blue) it should honestly say! I think this guy has been in the California sun tooo long.
Bottom line is you have to get it for about $400 in order to have Ted refinish it and Hugh fix the grip. Then you would have something worth having! <img border="0" alt="[soapbox]" title="" src="graemlins/soapbox.gif" />