I'm tagging on to Mike's post since it's in the same vein. I put a bunch of stuff on Craigslist yesterday, and stated that I would only sell to local buyers, face to face.

Someone from out of state contacted me and offered to pay in advance via PayPal and then have a local friend of his pick it up. He says that he is the one taking the risk.

I'm familiar with quite a few scams, but can't help but wonder if there's one I'm not familiar with that's going on here.

Can a PayPal payer refute the sale afterwards and have the money transfer back to themselves, the way you can refute a charge on say, Visa or MasterCard?

I'll look this up on PayPal's site, but again wonder if there might be a scam I'm not familiar with.

It's a $700 video tripod.


::::::: No disrespect to Axiom, but my favorite woofer is my yellow lab :::::::