...I am willing to pay for via paypal... BEFORE these parts are even packed and sent from your end
this is incorrect on both counts. i don't think this is necessarily the right forum to be thrashing this out, however, suffice to say that in the interests of ensuring other members are aware of these concerns you absolutely stated that paypal was not available to you and you certainly did not pay for any items.
you stated western union was your only available payment method and that in order to achieve this transaction many sensitive personal details were required. this, again, is incorrect as western union require a reference number and only the basic identification.
despite clarification from western union themselves you continued to insist that many sensitive personal details were still required, enough to arouse my concern, and when i got suspicous and asked you about this you went unsurprisingly quiet. i didnt hear from you again, despite having spent a lot of time and effort weighing, wrapping and quoting on postage.
my original conclusion that this was a scam, maybe identity theft or otherwise, as it bore the same hallmarks as the classic 'nigerian scam mail'. in the interests of being safer rather than sorry i thought it prudent to raise the warning bell when i saw your original post, which you appear to have conveniently deleted.
as said before, i have not gone into all the detail regarding our previous encounter, i do not think that is particularly constructive, suffice to say that my advice to other members is to approach with caution. i also took the step of reporting your post to the site admin, in the interest of the safety of the other members of this valuable forum.