The Durham / Shaq references didn't mean much to me when I first saw them in response to my post. It wasn't until I did a search on the forum and read a few threads that I realised I had been ripped off by this chancer myself at the end of 2011.
I won an ebay auction he was running for a Kevin Pietersen worn England helmet. His original listing was linked to an "old' Paypal address so he asked me to resend it to a different Paypal. Back then I didn't know as much about how PP works so I did, and of course ended up losing one of the PP payments I made him.
Over the course of several weeks (and many emails) he promised to send the helmet by courier, Royal Mail, among others, send a cheque to cover both payments, etc. Needless to say I saw neither! Also during this time he informed me that his dog died (which I saw he also posted on here,) as did his Dad and his car packed in. In the end I gave in for the sake of my sanity!
In those days his ebay ID was coopa11 and emails were coming from seargentharris@googlemail.com
So yes, I'll be very cautious of any attempts to contact me regarding a trade on this!