Posted 2012-06-06 11:26 AM (#144599) Subject: Delivering a trailer
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Posts: 122 Location: Grant Twp., MI
So, I have a trailer ad posted here and I have also listed it on several other sites...have you ever sold a trailer and the prospective buyer asks you to deliver it...1,400 miles away!!! Any comments would be welcome...I think that if I were buying a trailer for mucho $ I would drive and see it in person...or fly out to see it....and if this person is serious...before I deliver it...I would want/expect payment in full....please everyone shout in on this....I do want to sell it but......
Posted 2012-06-06 12:24 PM (#144603 - in reply to #144599) Subject: RE: Delivering a trailer
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Posts: 560 Location: Mena, AR
There are services that will deliver a trailer for you. Most likely cheaper than doing it yourself. Time, gas, both ways. The buyer should pay for shipping. If they don't want to pay for shipping, walk a way. As far as payment, they can do a wire payment from their bank to yours. Do not send the trailer till you have payment in full.
Posted 2012-06-06 5:56 PM (#144620 - in reply to #144599) Subject: RE: Delivering a trailer
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Posts: 385 Location: high desert, CA.
RED FLAG! Someone who buys a trailer sight unseen is a fool, or a scam. I would demand payment in full, and if they want to have it delivered, do that commercially. I have taken trailers to Oregon, and Washington, as well as No. California and to Arizona. But, I was guaranteed payment before towing. I go to those states from time to time for family, so towing is a snap, as I can get the fuel paid, and see family too.
Posted 2012-06-06 7:52 PM (#144623 - in reply to #144599) Subject: RE: Delivering a trailer
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Posts: 373 Location: Texas
If you do not have payment in full, cleared by the bank, when you arrive with the trailer, they could jack with you in a few ways. One is for them to start offering less money, knowing you don't want to haul it home. Or, refuse it all together.
I drove 1400 miles to buy a trailer, taking a chance it was as advertised. I sent a $500 deposit for them to hold it until I saw it, but stated in payment that it was to be as advertised. It was my risk to chance the fuel to do this, but I had communicated a lot and actually had a previous connection with the seller after we chatted.
Posted 2012-06-06 9:23 PM (#144627 - in reply to #144623) Subject: RE: Delivering a trailer
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Posts: 122 Location: Grant Twp., MI
Thanks everyone for your input...and actually numerous red flags were waving...this isn't my first rodeo so I'll wait and see...I actually drove from Michigan to North Carolina to look at a trailer and DID NOT purchase it as it was not as stated! I drove out to Kansas to purchase my current trailer...so I think that $$ isn't that disposable, at least not to me...and if I don't hear from him again...oh well...
Delivering a trailer
So, I have a trailer ad posted here and I have also listed it on several other sites...have you ever sold a trailer and the prospective buyer asks you to deliver it...1,400 miles away!!! Any comments would be welcome...I think that if I were buying a trailer for mucho $ I would drive and see it in person...or fly out to see it....and if this person is serious...before I deliver it...I would want/expect payment in full....please everyone shout in on this....I do want to sell it but...... 
