I had something simular happen, was leary of how excited the seller was, took a coworker with me to the location. Everything worked out great, wound up with 6 complete towers for $30.
Found out the guy got them from his work and was going to scrap them himself but saw my ad on CL and figured that he would make more selling them whole to me than scrapping them himself.
I told him about this site but also told him to call if he got anymore.

Tackleberry, that is a shame that someone would lead you on like that, wish you better luck next time.