Beware, scammers everywhere

Indeed...A sucker born every minute...Or in the USA 77, 200 million + voting suckers 18 and over in age....

WTF?

There was a seller in an audio forum that had a product that I was very very very much interested in.
He had good feedback from forum members, no negatives.
He would accept only payment by wire transfer…to Turkey,…and he was in the Netherlands.
Allegedly.
I couldn’t do it.

YES I ADMIN A DOZEN fb PAGES AND OUR rules are PayPal for goods and services ONLY ( unless you are picking up parts in person! ) anyone that won’t accept pay pal ? RUN !
i have NO idea how people continue to get cheated ? w/ pay pal G & S you cannot !

Another thing I've encountered is that when I've listed an item for sale on Audiogon, the communication begins on the site, but the potential buyer wants to talk and basically transitions the transaction off the site.  One time I spoke with the "buyer" and we came to agreement on the price, but he insisted that I give him my bank account info, so he could transfer the funds without me having to pay the credit card fee..."no thanks".  Another time the "buyer" said that he'd be giving me cash, but when he arrived at my home, insisted on giving me $600 less than we agreed upon when we spoke..."no thanks".