Hello, baker-5567,

Is it the item which you've "sold"?

This is a reasonably expensive item; you're a first-time eBay user (at least on that account).

This makes you automatically come up in bot-generated listing results for scam groups - very sophisticated scammers who do this professionally, as part of a group. Very often the scamming group is Russian (Russian mafia).

From what you say - long inactive ID where the member was originally the USA, now claiming to be in Russia - that sounds like a hijacked account to me.

Everything screams "SCAM", from what you've said.

Bear in mind that I'm not a seller on eBay, but my advice would be:

• cancel the sale (using the reason that the buyer's address is not one to which you send / buyer's address is incorrect)
• immediately block the "buyer"
• go to your Buyer requirements, and check the box next to "Block buyers whose primary postage address is in a location I don't post to"
• do not engage in any communication with the "buyer" -  none at all
• be extra vigilant with your emails; the "buyer" will know the email address attached to your PayPal account
• oh, and contact eBay - eBay's "Have us call you" option is by far the best way - between 8 am to 10 pm AET, 7 days a week, and report the "buyer" account as bearing the hallmarks of a hijacked account so that eBay can take action; I am not sure if you would also have to request that final value fee be credited to you, but keep that in mind.

Others will have more advice, I'm sure.