Sounds suspiciously similar to something my dad was looking at a few months ago.
He is a big Honda Goldwing fan and saw one on ~Ebay with the same sort of story attatched to it.
Apparently the guy lived in Germany but the bike was in London. The guys brother had apparently died in Iraq, and he was selling it for his sister in law.
Same thing with the Weston Union stuff and payment held by a third party until the bike was delivered and inspected.
Needless to say I advised him not to buy it
After several emails from dad to the seller asking if he could pay with paypal etc he eventually didn't hear anymore and reported it to ebay.
The trouble is some people get away with crap like this. :x