Buyer offering to buy off Ebay...

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Standard scam technique. They rely on people accepting the email as gospel and not actually checking their PayPal account. You can either follow up with PayPal with their spoof reporting email or, like another user here a while back, just send them a rock so they think their successful for a few days.

And they don't mind the fact that some of us are blessed with "short arms and long pockets" because they are playing a win some, lose some game.