You would be surprised the great people you meet buying/selling through Facebook and craigslist. Me and a friend were talking about this the other day and after a quick calculation, we both agreed that we have bought and sold over 50k worth of stuff and don’t have 1 bad experience in all these years.
My last one was just 2 weeks ago on craiglist while just typing “hayabusa” to see what would pop up(I get bored at work on nightshift). A set of T-rex frame sliders new in the box for $80 was listed and I messaged the seller. Got a reply and agreed on $60 dollars, since I had to drive a bit to get to him. As I’m getting on the highway he calls and says, “ let’s meet at the half way point, since I know you must be tired after your 13hr shift and I’m retired”. We meet and is an older guy in his early 60s with a limp. I ask him if he rides a busa and he says his son used to, but sold it and tells me he just wrecked his bike while on vacation in key west(hence the limp). Turns out it was a concours (like the one I just bought) and he was sad, because the intent of the trip was to hit 100k miles, but missed it by a few hundred miles and bike was totaled. Turned out to be a nice long conversion in the parking lot of a gas station. He said his son told him to sell a bunch of busa spare/aftermarket stuff that was in the garage to help fund his next bike, since insurances Only gave him 4K for his totaled bike. I ended up giving him asking price for the sliders to “help” him fund his new bike faster and wished him full recovery. There is still nice people out there, you just have to follow your gut and signs and run as fast as you can if a deal sounds odd.
