I don't get the difficulty with setting up a Paypal account.
You don't need to connect it to your bank account anymore, you can just use a credit card through it.
A few sellers prefer verified contact/address and that's easy enough to organise, at least in North America. A confirmed bank account isn't necessary, but I guess there are still some sellers that might like that.
As for the bidding on the Cyberstorm, I'm not exactly a seasoned eBay-er, but there's no way I'm bidding on that until the last day, bidding now is pretty pointless. I expect the price will rocket up to some very high level within the last hour though.
