Not Sure If This Is OK Here, But Here Goes

There is a dealer/distributor in the Miami area that does forward gear to guys in that area.  There are several members on AudioShark that use him.  It's there only way to access gear not sold in their countries. 

PayPal is secure. I have used it for the past five years without any problems. 

+1 nonoise!

Of course paypal is terrific and an accepted industry standard. People do try to game it by for example claiming all sorts of nonsense, I know that, but I am only going by what others have said.

Complicated transaction, though, and of course it smells fishy. My preference - for want of a stronger word, maybe "rule"- is to always and only communicate with the buyer to whom you will ship it to. Or, seller, whatever side you are on.

This approach is also consistent with any ordinary rules of contract law.

Keep it simple. Hows that for some original advice.

I believe PayPal has something in place that you have to ship to the/an address on their PayPal account or it's not covered. I may be totally wrong but I won't ship anywhere except the PayPal address.