We have advertised furniture and the buyer wants to pay by PayPal and will have shipping agents pick it up and have it transported overseas. My wife is suspicious and afraid the deal is fishy as they can rip her off as it's over a thousand dollars.

 

We had the same thing happen recently for a large Chinese teak table and the buyer kept asking for details of my wife and bank account etc with they will send a shipping agent but would not tell where to and I cancelled the deal. 

 

Any my ideas on this would be helpful 

 

 

have them issue a  paypal paper check.   give it a month to clear

Don't do it.

 

Just Google Paypal payments scams and see for yourself the pitfalls.

 

https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/mpp/brc/avoid-popular-scams

Edited January 30, 20179 yr by Flustered

Don't do it

If you wonder it means that it's stupid to even think about it !