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Craigslist purchases can be done safely - if someone says 'Come to my house' I say 'No Thanks!'



If the item is of a nature that it has to be viewed, played, etc.... I will bring it to my back porch and they can come to my house. The buyer knows up front, in a very polite way, that for my safety I will be armed when he gets there and if he has any idea about trying to rob me it would behoove him to forget that idea right now. If he balks because of that, the sale is off. The few times I have had people over to buy, they had no issue with my being armed. If they don't understand "I don't know you, and you don't know me. Thus for my protection, I will be wearing a sidearm when you arrive. I have a CCW permit and I got it for a reason. I didn't spend 18 months in a war to be killed by a punk in Ohio."

But I also digress.

I bought my Behringer control surface from a user here that I do not know, but having seen his participation, there was a comfort factor there. That is what my goal is here, a portal to post unwanted, unloved, unused gear and possibly match up to a buyer, not to turn PG Forums into an e-commerce site.

What I don't get is how the naysayers have taken the idea of "I am selling my Roland MT32 module. Send me a private message if you are interested." and turned that into "PG Music isn't eBay."