HESITANT with NEW member sellers


I seem to struggle too frequently with members who are NEW, no history at all, but who seem to have beautiful systems, excellent taste, and are offering very reasonable deal on a very high end piece of audio equipment. 
I have passed up on "mint" Thiel speakers and "mint" REF6 Audio Research due to my fear of being ripped off. 
Is there protection built into AUDIOGON? Has anyone had experience with that?
I prefer Pay Pal, in hopes that they would provide protection...I believe they do..but the same sellers want cash or check....I am HESITANT. 
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Showing 1 response by ferrox

Looks like I would be an easy target then. Every time I make payment via paypal charged to my credit card, there will be a short message from credit card provider notifying certain transaction occured. If I don't recognize it, I will have to respond to that message calling the credit card company.

If bad things happen, I really doubt the credit card company would help me charge paypal back for the refund. 

My experience with paypal charged through my credit card was, both of them provided no solution. Paypal directed me to work it out with the seller. Credit card company denied to help because I hadn't reported that transaction as suspicious in the first place.

So I ended up making transaction through wire transfer especially when the nominal exceeds my credit card limit.