Advice for selling on Craigslist If you've sold things (especially big-ticket items) via Craigslist before, I'd like to hear your positive stories.→[More:] I wanna do the whole sell-my-phone-to-upgrade-to-the-newer-model thing and, while I used to sell things on eBay a lot, I haven't been there since 2006 and I'm wary that it's been all-but-deserted and overrun with scammers. While selling on CL seems more scam-resistant to me in terms of only accepting cash, I'm scared to meet them. Ideally I'd meet them at the AT&T store and have them give me money for the new phone and I'd hand over my old one. Would it be acceptable to carry a counterfeit-detecting pen?

I thought about sending it to the electronics trade-in program at Amazon which is currently offering me slightly more than what I'd be asking. But they'd pay me in store credit and I'm not sure it would be in the form of a gift card which I could then sell for cash. And I worry about the feasibility of that.