Local pickup for speakers - should I let the buyer in the house or use the the garage?

Do some of y’all require... certain buyers to send you a copy of their major record company recording contract, or of their NBA contract before allowing them in your garage? Bet you’d want that FAXED over pronto! Also, do you give the neighbors advance notice in such cases? Just askin

@pindac - why do you think that cash sales should be avoided? Cash sales are always my first choice when selling something. 

Op give us update? No deal?

@allenf1963 

First, I am very sorry you had to suffer this encounter with random violence. Something similar happened to one of my kids recently. 

As situations go, carjacking doesn't have much in common with selling audio, other than the fact that some people will want what you have and might shoot you while taking it.

Where I grew up, a paranoid mindset could help you go through your childhood and teenage years relatively unscathed. But the circumstances warranted it, whereas defense mechanisms activated in the absence of credible threats are a hindrance and a liability.

Folks who demand copies of buyers' drivers licenses and other nonsense (assuming they're actually serious) are driving good buyers away. Unless they're selling their stuff at such a discount that it makes sense to jump through the hoops, however ridiculous those might be. 

As far as guns, even if one is carrying it doesn't make much sense to pull a piece on three armed guys unless one is a really, really, really good shooter. So there's that. 

I don't think selling audio is a particularly high-risk activity, which doesn't mean it's absolutely completely 100% risk-free. "Trust but verify" is always a pretty good attitude.

1) Ask for some bona fides (eBay, Facebook marketplace, etc....i.e. feedback).  No online presence is no invite home. If google dosen’t know you, you’re likely not real these days.

2) There’s not much difference between a garage in you house and a living room.

3) Get traceable info on him (phone, maybe even adress) before meeting

I’ve only been burned once, guy got agressive when I wouldn’t lower price, I walked him out thru the garage. Ended up calling cops when he threatened me after I discovered his girl friend was trying to buy the same turntable via texts). 

These days I meet at the town center (police/fire/library) unless I’ve done the above as well as really hit it off online/on phone.  Cuts both ways since if I’m selling something (big, old guy) to a young woman, so police department parking lot can be comforting.