[Rimrock]

Sorry to learn about your experience concerning aiming for this deal. You are naturally fully entitled to spend your money elsewhere. I am pretty sure there was no 'intention of fraud' from any of the parties involved here at all, but rather misunderstandings regarding payment channels. The company has been in business for at least 4-5 years and sold hundreds of their machines all over the world and put lots of effort into developing new equipment it seams, as the recent fine dozer.
I don't mean to be a 'viceguy', but I guess most of us that has been using PayPal are aware of their fee of 3-4%. So in order for the receiver to get 7000, one needs to send a higher amount, like 7200-7300 (I don't have the exact fees at hand). With bank transfer the fee is usually quite much less. I personally like the so called 'safety', which I have no experience with so far, of using PayPal, but it has a cost naturally. (I've bought a couple of RC cars on Ebay, from private persons in Germany, and they asked me to do a bank transfer. I was not very comfortable with it, but seeing the sellers had been on ebay for years, and with good ratings, and it all went well in these cases. But sending money abroad like this to private persons, is something I don't recommend. When I later learned that Ebay take 10% in fee from the seller (not for large goods like automobiles and so on), and in addition to 3-4% for PayPal, I understand the quest for an bank transfer with an relative small fixed fee involved)