NEVER use Craigslist! Come folks- are we THAT naive? Craigslist would have been safe in the society of 60 years ago. NOW? Don't even think about it.

Craigslist=predators list.

This is why i have my current and up to date Concealed permit and my Model 36 Chief special 38 with me whenever i leave my home .......It will do no good in the glove box or in your bedside drawer.....If you got the permit ....pack it and be proud and be a responsbile citizen ...

Beginning of the meeting, ask to snap a picture of his Drivers license on your mobile phone and say, I'm just going to send this to my home email, you know, just a precaution. This works.

Your comments make sense, but you're missing one very big point: the test drive. Would you buy a car without test driving it first? Especially a used car from somebody you don't know? So your choices are to either let the potential buyer test drive it by themselves, and risk them not returning, or go with them, and risk getting a gun held to your head while they steal your car anyway. Either way, there's a whole lot of reasons I won't sell my car privately. I'll take the financial hit of taking it to a dealership because it's just safer that way.

Just give him the needle ,sick rabid animal that he is , he will have horrible luck from this day forth if he does not turn himself in , this is my opinion

Exactly... either a police sub-station or a very public place. Not only that, but don't bring the dude along with you to go get the rest of the money. Let him go get it himself, why do you need to go with them? Red Flags should have gone up.

Another Craigslist encounter gone bad. You meet the interested party in front of the police station and let him see the car. If he's interested you tell him to arrange the funding and meet him back at the police station to exchange money for merchandise (cash only). He'll never show in the first place if he's not legit.