Sell safely. Avoid scams.
Plain-English guides on selling privately without getting burned: spotting fake buyers, safe ways to get paid, and handing over in person with proof.
Three checks decide whether the phone is usable at all, and they take two minutes. Everything else is negotiation.
Read guideTwo separate questions, and most guides only answer one: is the bike any good, and is it actually theirs to sell.
Cash feels like the safe option right up to the moment it is not. The checks take seconds and almost nobody does them.
Police safe exchange zones, the places that work when there is not one near you, and why your front door is the one to avoid.
The badge means very different things on different platforms, and on most it means much less than you would assume.
Yes, but the detail that matters is Direct Shipping, where your item skips the authentication step entirely.
Yes, it is a real company and it does check items before they reach you. The complaints are about fees, returns and delivery, not authenticity.
Yes, and it has the strongest protection of the big platforms. The exception is the one most people never read.
Genuinely safer than most, as long as you stay on the platform and understand the clock that starts the moment your parcel lands.
Mostly yes for shipped orders, and much less so for the local cash handovers most people actually use. Here is the difference.
The tells a scam buyer always shows, why the classic tricks work, and how to sell without getting burned.
The eight scams that catch private sellers and buyers most, each with a one-line defence.
Wipe it right, meet safely, get paid without a chargeback, and prove the handover. Step by step.
Which payment methods can be reversed, which cannot, and the one rule that stops you losing money.
Where to meet, what to bring, how to confirm the item, and how to hand over without a nasty surprise.