Personally, I always think the worst of any seller on eBay until I get the goods - I'm naturally a distrustful person! This guy is a funny one though, probably just lazy but could be a rip off - I dunno!
Apart from that sausagefingersfordy (see eBay cocks thread) I've been okay (touch wood - waiting for a high price item bought on the 25th Novemeber that I haven't got yet!) when buying vintage SW stuff.
Big believer in karma, treat people as you want to be treated. I mean I sold a load of vintage Star Wars stuff (about £400 worth) to a guy in the north of Scotland during the summer and he asked if I could wait a month before posting it, I said no problem if he paid straight away (which he was happy to do) and then he never got back to me despite sending many eBay messages - eventually tracked him down and sent him all his packages. I could have not bothered and resold everything, but what goes around comes around (I'm sounding like a ****ing hippy now!)