e-Bay issue

I won an item on e-Bay on the 22nd and sent payment via paypal immediately. It came back as unclaimed due to the seller's unregistered e-mail, (the e-mail address was not the e-mail address that e-Bay had listed for the seller).
So the seller sends me an e-mail from another e-mail address, not through e-Bay, requesting that I send the paypal payment to a third e-mail or by money order. He gave me a last name and an address, and a phone number.
I informed the seller that 3 e-mail addresses is suspicious, and to let me know when this is all sorted out, I will only send payment through e-Bay/paypal.
I sent e-Bay a note, they state they will respond within 24-48 hours and it has been 5 days!
In the meantime, I googled his phone number and found another item listed on e-Bay under another name using that phone number.

Can you have 2 e-Bay accounts/names?

I'm pissed because it is not just some stupid item you can get anywhere, but its not like I got it cheap- I don't know what to do...help!
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