Also, odd that it is shipping from USA, because I was invoiced in CAD, and I live in the US.
Exact same thing happened to me. This whole situation spooked me due to:
(1) The above situation - wanting a personal payment, instead of a safer invoice payment. Refunded payment to me after he was not able to get the funds immediately due to unverified PayPal account.
(2) Then he asked me to send to his 'wife's' PayPal account - but he sent me a disposable e-mail address.
(3) He and I were discussing payment details when he posted the ArcologyPrime sales messages above - he was not negotiating in good faith. When I asked about the posts about the items being sold already - he told me "first person who pays me get them". Not the type of person I want to do business with.
(4) His account is only a few days old.
I wonder if this is the same person that I was just dealing with from Kijiji, claiming that they were from London, Ontario? Exact same situation, except #3 and maybe #4. I sent an email this morning since I hadn't heard back about a tracking number and the email I was replying with generated an auto alert saying that the email didn't exist anymore. And neither did the paypal address they gave me, or their "wife's" email.
I got my money back from PayPal.