well I have decided to bite the bullet and am going to order a deep impact swing press from TMT. Made in China, assembled in Hinckley but at least it has a life time warranty on the element and I won't have to spend hours wading through gazillions of ads on ebay anymore and can get on with doing something a bit more productive!
Thanks for the colour coding advice Pisquee, hopefully it will come in useful to anyone else scanning ebay for a bargain press.
Arthur