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

Venmo, Paypal, and the like are backed by a credit card to which the buyer could contact and file a claim/ dispute resulting in the seller losing out.

Yep. Ask me how I found out

I'd be interested it what "details that lead (you) to cancel the arrangements before they happened".

+1

@bubba12 - too right - $850 is not much when it comes to cash transactions. I've had buyers who were happy to bring over thousands of dollars in cash. 

Zelle is better than cash. It is instant, not reversible and you don’t have to worry about counterfeit bills. You cannot do a chargeback with Zelle.

the only potential issue is transaction limits for the sender.

for security, I give the street / cross street but not the house number until the buyer is close by, and always meet in daylight with someone else around .

The only reason I persist in using Craigslist and Facebook is eventually there is usually a successful transaction, just resigned to having to deal with the professional scammers.

I know there’s a literal plethora of scams out there nowadays, but for those of us who haven’t had to sell anything online anytime recently, can you folks elaborate on some of the primary scams you’ve heard about or run into lately ?

Thanks.