Can you get scammed after you ship an item paid for by Paypal?

[ShellySEA]

I want to sell a guitar local pickup. A person has asked to have it shipped. I know this will be expensive but told them I could take it to the UPS store and get the price. It would be expensive. (You have to purchase a special box too). He said, yes, do that, but he has moved (like right NOW) and it would need to be sent there. I would accept Paypal only. I have a bad feeling about this. Can you get scammed if someone pays for something and you ship it to them? Is it possible this person is using someone else's account to buy something and have it shipped AWAY from  that actual eBay member?

[kernowlass]

@ShellySEA 

Lot of red flags there.

For a start you have 0 seller protection if you send to an address that is not the buyers paypal registered address at the time that they send you the payment.

So if they are asking you to send to another address then tell them to 'add' that address as a gift address to their paypal account and select that address during checkout so you would have seller protection.

Then read up on Paypals seller protection policy so you can risk assess your transactions.
Legal (bottom right of Paypals pages) > user agreement > seller protection.