Selling towers - keep getting bad actors/scammers when doing local pickup only.


I have been trying to sell my tower speakers on US Audio mart. I don't have the patience to package them up and mess with freight shipping. So, I advertise them as local pickup only and I set the price pretty cheap. But, the 2 serious buyers I have gotten seemed to be bad actors/scammers. I would catch details that lead me to cancel the arrangements before they happened. 

I guess it's a bad idea to do local pickup only when selling audio equipment? 

dman777

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Wow, no scammers! Doesn't matter what I list, Craigslist is a scammers paradise. Facebook Marketplace has it's fair share, easier to spot as they generally have  some pretty strange 'friends' and no content. I totally expect it with every sale, most scammers use same old tactics, some are more subtle. And there are people coming up with new scams every day, scamming is a 'profession' these days.

I too have heard about bad things with Zelle and some of these other bank to bank transfers, wire transfers are safest. Cash is king, counterfeit bills, carrying a lot of cash could be issues. Can't believe people aren't mentioning issues dealing with mountains of scammers, yeah, their mostly just pests if you're familiar with selling on web, but they never cease to bother. Tire kickers another form of pest, some of these are complete phonies, trying to see if you have other items worth coming back to steal. I know any number of people who now refuse to sell on these platforms since they're rife with scammers. At this very moment I have old riding lawn mower for sale on Facebook, there are scammers even for this $250 old dog. Gave up practically trying to give away tons of old audio magazines, only bites were fake Facebook entities inquiring about audio equipment I may have. I gave up tossed all the mags in garbage.