Sounds fishy, but it would solve the money transfer if it's legit.

...if you can pay with PayPal, you at least have some protection. I haven't bought anything on ebay in quite awhile, but I believe they'll back you, too.

Spammers use it to get your email address. Once you reply they have you. Set up a seperate account that you can just throw away after the transaction.

it did hurt, but i looked at ebay's help and they warned against just such a scam. he said he had listed it on ebay, but he couldn't find the link. that was enough.
i told him i though it was too good to be true and unless he could prove it was legit i wasn't interested. that was the last of the emails, so....