I just put my car up for sale, which could sell for as high as $20K. What the best way to receive the cash so I don’t get taken?
You can take cash, but do the transaction at a bank and deposit it so you don’t get robbed (by his friends) on the way home.
You can take a bank check BUT only if you go to the bank with the buyer, and see him draw the money (making sure the check is real). These days I can get a bank check for $5 face value, and photoshop it to $25,000 and print it up on my color printer and you would never know.
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Also let the buyer know that you will be taking a photocopy of the buyer’s driver’s license as record. That alone will scare away most fake bank check writers.
Good Luck…