this was a BIN sale ..a few days ago.. buyer sent me this email   This email confirms that you’ve nominated PayPal to receive an instant purchase payment of $50.00 AUD for your eBay item This payment was sent through PayPal - the safer, easier way to get paid online. Once you accept your payment on PayPal, you can withdraw the money or use it in many different ways. Simply click the link below to accept payment   but there is no payment pending in my paypal account and when I click on view paypal transaction ..it says   the transaction ID in your link is invalid   scam or what?

All PayPal payments come from the buyer's email address, at least every single one I've ever received has, and I get the message re: invalid transactions from clicking the eBay link even when the payment has gone through without a hitch, so that alone isn't cause for concern.

It's also very odd that eBay is giving you the option to view the PayPal transaction, as that generally means that they have at least gone through checkout and confirmed a PayPal payment.

I'm not saying you should click on the link in the email, but you should definitely investigate a little further, as it may be that they have sent a payment to an incorrect address, although I'm not 100% sure you'd get a payment notification if that were the case.