The points were only off if you decided they were suppose to meet. It looked fine in its original except to those who had a preconceived notion of what pattern it was to be. I wonder if anyone would have looked at the finished quilt and thought, "oh the points don't match." I would have seen it as a twist on an old pattern.
The eBay seller did not deceive. She took a pic, you saw it, liked it, and bought it. Personally, I think it was beautiful for the same reason an oil painting is. When too close the painting looks nothing like a real image but when back a bit it is a complete image. I am missing the point of taking apart to fix as I don't see it needing fixing. But then I don't make or even try to make show quilts. My gang does not know each quilt design so they would never know something was off or not lined up.