I have to admit that I was willing to bet that the OP was a scammer. I do still have my suspicions with him though. If he attempts to trade with anyone in the future I would strongly advise not to send funds either without escrow or until you can independently verify a transaction has confirmed
Yeah there's something fishy. He's accused two people on this forum of scamming him. There are three options.
1) They scammed him.
2) A scammer impersonated them on skype.
3) He wasn't scammed and was trying to put himself in a situation where someone would trust his newb self enough to send first to him.