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Suspicious Buyers On Craigslist?

I am selling my wedding band on craigslist...I paid $2100 for it and selling it for $1000. I got 3 people interested in buying the item and wanting to pay paypal. I have never done this before, but all 3 do NOT want to see the ring. One lives in Indiana and wants ring shipped to Maylasia, second lives in houston wants it shipped to West Africa, third lives in Missouri and wants it shipped to UK. What would you do and could I get screwed somehow in these if I do go through with one of them? I would make sure I got the payment first BUT why would they want it shipped out of USA?

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1. My guess is that all of these are SCAMS. The scammers clone a PayPal email to make it look like you are receiving money but there is no money. There is one rule with Craigslist: Only deal locally. Ignore these 3 "buyers" and anyone else who wants the band shipped; especially if they want it shipped out of the country.
2. It is a scam,they just want your ring for free.
3. Because they're obviously not in the US...and they'd pay with a phony check.
4. Their is no regulate payment for craigslist it supposed to be for classifieds advertising and local pick up they express that enough when you get to the site and there is a big "ALWAYS DEAL LOCAL" on top. Its better to have have a payment gateway like paypal. Those sound like scams is right.
5. Of course they want to pay using "paypal"--they have spent months perfecting the fake emails. The fake email would purportedly say that paypal has the money, but due to security reasons, is holding the money until you provide proof of shipment. The scammer hopes that you do not know the money in question should be visible *in* your paypal account even if it was frozen and that you mail them the item for free. Since they don't actually live in the US, they want you to send the item to them, but are gleefully telling you it's a gift.... Even if they did (hah!) send you the money all 3 want you to send it outside the country. You can never defend a chargeback. (This version of the scam was common to Indonesia.)