Beware: Unscrupulous potential buyers

Make sure you cash the MO somewhere other than your bank, although they can verify it. A MO can be cancelled once you send the buyer a tracking # as long as the buyer bought it with a credit card. Crooks will claim they don't have a paypal account, and won't send a MO. Use caution.

You can get burned with wire transfer, PayPal, personal check and MO. Money Order is the most risky of the lot.

Use a common sense, always try to get in contact with the seller via the phone - you will know within minutes if he is a real audiophile or a scammer.

You can't get burned on a MO if it has been cleared and you do not cash it where you keep your bank account. Do not ship or send the buyer the tracking # for a few days. I take money orders but warn the buyer not to make a habbit of using them. I let them know that if I don't ship the item, they are stuck. If they still want touse one then ok.

I don't understand the trepidation about Money Orders. Are you guys refering to Bank issued MO's as opposed to Postal MO's? Seems to me, if I cash the postal MO at the post office and have the money in my hand, then what can go wrong after that? This is the way I have always dealt and it protects both the buyer and the seller. If I scammed the buyer, I believe the post office would consider it "Mail Fraud"...a Federal crime. Please fill me in.

Hifiharv is correct. If you cash a postal m.o. at a p.o. and walk out w cash, you are golden. Bank-issued m.o.s are another story. Accept w caution unless the member has long feedback history.