Their are a ton of these septics out there doing this kind of scam with ebay. Its a lot of organized criminals in on this, and its large scale....
Most of these people are out of the country doing this, with the help a lot of times from a person here, in the US.
Go here> http://forums.ebay.com/db2/forum.jspa?forumID=107 and read most of the topics... it has to do with this exact same scam..
Here is another scammer working right now> http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8041674223&sspagename=ADME%3AB%3***%3AUS%3A1. These guys are the ones that got me. The way I know is I go to the feedback and start looking at all the ebay ID's and then look at their feedback and their ebay ID's, so on- so on.... there is a pattern to how they operate.
All of them will not have a paypal payment method. Most will have a Yahoo email acc they want you to contact them thru....
If you see something you want to buy, and the person won't answer you back thru the ebay message service, its most highly a scammer..
The sad part about it is, ebay really don't care about stopping this. If they did, they would act asap when you report these scammers... but I know from experince, they will most likely scam the inosent before ebay responds to a reported scammer...
They still have not shut down dr-hunts scammer, or my scammer... it sucks big time!!