He said he has had no negative feedback on Ebay so far. I went ahead on faith and sent him my PayPal payment for the rims this morning to keep my claim alive. He has not responded. Maybe he is just panic'd - and maybe he should have asked for a reserve, but did not - and allowed the auction to contine to go until the end.

Before he started doing the Texas-Two-Step ( no offense to Texas ) He sent this thru Ebay to me ( this is an excerpt )
The seller entered the following message: hey there I really don't know why these rims went so cheap this time but I was would Ideally like 1500 at least out of them and than or course S&h but I make the insurance optional so it will just be 250 if you don't want issurance! congrats you got these for a steal....damn!
Then - he says he contacted the other bidders when I didn't respond immediately.

We will see where this goes, and I will post an update here. If you spent anytime on Ebay recently - you know which rims/tires I am talking about.

Thanks for the responses - I wanted a sanity check here.