Ok, so I swallowed the bullet and decided to actually buy the lens, not just talk about it. I went to LZOS to order it but they don't do paypal and their bank transfer option was a little dodgy. I then searched on ebay and found a seller, $125 + $24 shipping all USD = $149. So hopefully everything is cool and i'll be playing russian roullete soon.
Funny side note, the seller's name is russianarsenal and I got this message from ebay "This credit card transaction will appear on your bill as "PAYPAL *RUSSIANARSE".
I'm still laughing
but lets hope I don't get arsed myself and end up with no lens!