True. I've just read this post and can see the its going on for quite sometime? Anyway I was lucky that I dealt with a resonable guy and he trusted me to ship his scope after 1 wk he transfered his money over via paypal, and gave me a gd rating after that ( fair amount of money, not a few hundreds...).Mine was registered a long while back. Initially he ignored my application but after some mails to him, it was eventually approved.
I suggest you use proper emails like cyberway, singnet or pacnet.
He frowns on web-based mail like hotmail and yahoo as its easy to change by conmen...
I think when we are selling it shldnt be a problem, unless you are buying. By the way, paypal can only withdraw 500 USD a month( and I mean a month ) and transfer 250 USD a month, unless you give more details proving you have a credit card. There is another internet service called escrow which I was tempted to try but didnt. Anyone with good experience?