Bill, This is an open group accessible to (almost) anyone, so of course you must be careful, there is no official help from the group if something goes bad so your best defense is to be on alert.
In general most of the buying and selling is between established members so it's pretty safe. For less established members i would take a few extra precautions, asking to talk on the phone, verifying their address/personal information (disturbingly easy to do in with google....) to make sure everything lines up. Paypal does offer some protection when you pay for goods (not 'personal/gift') but it can still be dicey so i wouldn't depend solely on that. In the end, use your gut, if a deal feels too good to be true, or something feels off, walk away. On Saturday, July 18, 2015 at 4:29:14 PM UTC-4, Bill Ruprecht wrote: > > Hi, > > I am new to this group and am thinking of buying and selling some Riv > bikes in the near future. I have a questions: > > How do you deal with the transaction securely? Do you just "trust" that > the person will ship the bike after you pay him/her? At least Ebay has > procedures in place. > > This works on both sides of the transaction as i wonder how someone would > trust that i would ship after receiving his money. > > Let me know how you guys usually deal with this. > > Thanks, > Bill > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
