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.
I think it is a variant of number 3. I think he purposefully took a long time to send so the next time he wants to trade with someone, they will have less hesitation in sending funds to him after he claims to have sent bitcoin to them.
I find it somewhat hard to believe that it would take any exchange that long to send that small of an amount of bitcoin