I would not do any high dollar transactions on pay pal. Not because of the nature of this guy's request rather than the potential of loosing money to pay pal. Paypal is not a legit financial institution you can trust. They are shady:
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Personally I only use them on $200 or less transactions using my credit card now and keep my account cleaned out.
George