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Selling a bike, listed cash on collection.
Obviously, after agreeing a price they want to arrange their own courier.... sigh...
So bike is going to Poland, and alarm bells are ringing, however, they say they are arranging for the courier to bring the cash with them...
So I can’t see how I am being or can be scammed, if the courier doesn’t show up with cash, I turn them away, if they do they take the bike, any issues during transit etc, I have the cash, nothing they can do about it?
So what am I missing, or am I being paranoid?
Bloke turning up with baseball bat?
If it's eBay, once they've paid they say item hasn't arrived even though they collected, and you get spanked for the money back?
I think there's been a cew threads on here with bikes going to Poland and similar places with a cash on collw tion courier. I'm fairly certain it's all legit and been fine.
When I went MTBing in Bulgaria, Ian running the trip described a type of secure cash on collection system they have because many people don't have access to banking processes, so it probably doesn't seem that odd to a Pole.
Can't see how a scam could work if they did bring cash, but I can imagine the courier not turning up after you've sent them your address and the bike being nicked a few days later.
I'd arrange for them to collect it from work rather than home. As long as the courier gives a tracking ref (that works) how could they say they haven't received it??...
Counterfeit notes?
ASk the seller to send you the name of the "courier" then check their ID when they arrive?
Kinda where I’ve come down on, not through eBay, so given I could sell it to someone down the road who shows up with a bat, or counterfeit notes the risks don’t seem any larger than any other sale...
I’ve made it clear that I can’t pack it up, so that’s their risk... I’m not going to entertain any ‘not as described’ nonsense...
Will just have to see if anyone shows up I suppose!
Might see if anyone I know fancies being round for a cuppa at the same time as collection...
What biscuits?
The courier might be their mate who is driving back home anyway.
As said, I'd accept pound notes and use a work address.
Fake notes are pretty rare and expensive to make, would anyone bother for grands worth of bike that would be hard to sell on quick to realise profit from their fakery.