Even if you convince him it's legit, some don't want the hassle of waiting to get paid after you receive the item and inspect it.

I understand his hesitance, just imagine if your roles were reversed. How would you handle it? I have a hard time with large transactions so far away.

Just out of curiosity, what kind of vehicle is it? Must be something hard to find if you are buying it sight unseen over 3000 miles away...?? And if you:
"don't have the time to fly to Oregon to hand someone a cashier's check" how are you going to get it back to Florida?
Maybe send him the escrow link you want to use and he can read into it.

I wouldnt do it as the seller... I would just move on to the next interested party.

guessing your wanting the GI JOE pinball ?

Given the escrow.com fee, maybe just fly up there for piece of mind. Sure its probably more than the escrow.com fee but if you fly, you can see the vehicle, watch it get loaded on a carrier, make the guy comfortable, etc. .

just read up on the vehicle ....

tough little bugger !

You should try to swing by Next Level Pinball while you’re up here. That place is amazing.

deal with sellers who have a great rep on here and abroad, no need to jump through hoops. Then any way the sellers wants you to pay, you should be less reluctant to hesitate on paying.

I can totally understand the seller's hesitation. I had a guy in the States interested in my Sega Godzilla. He wanted to use escrow. My concern was what if something happens in shipping. In my mind, once I hand it to the shipper I've done my part and the risk is on the buyer for shipping, but escrow allows the buyer to inspect the item. I decided not worth the hassle to me.

Escrow is total BS. If you as the buyer want a seller to ship a 5 figure item sight unseen then you need to take the risk and wire the money before anything gets shipped…

Just tell him a bunch of pinball fanatics said it was okay. Ha ha.

I have bought two vehicles sight unseen and paid for both with Escrow.com. The sellers were leery as well. The key is that you have to pay extra for the title service. The seller sends the title to escrow, sends the car to you, you receive the car, escrow releases payment and title.

Escrow stays man in the middle for the whole thing.

For sure. It would be a hard thanks but no thanks from me. Dealing with that hassle and the risk the buyer says the item wasn’t as described in some way is simply not worth the risk. I wouldn’t even consider it if I was the seller.

I buy california cars and ship them to Wisconsin from time to time. My dream vacation would be to buy a beater from cali and drive it all the way back to Wisconsin. Nothing like wrenching on the fly.

Since reality plays a large part in this, escrow it is for me.

where in Oregon is the seller located?

Awesome! My favorite so far… was driving a 67 beetle in college from Florida back to Illinois. Belt shredded (not that big of a deal) somewhere in southern Illinois. The problem was it blew apart and actually went into the fan in the rear of the doghouse. I had to wait for the engine to cool, remove the three bolts holding the engine to the tranny, drop the motor, and then clean out the fan assembly. Nothing like dropping a motor on the side of a freeway… lol

Seriously he is in Pleasant Hill? I dont get out alot lately but i could probably have my wife run me by to take a look at it.. PM me

I have seen a fair share torch because people put the fuel filter inside the engine compartment… big no-no.

I do pucker up a bit when I do DP motor swaps into older gen VWs…. It requires shaving the inside of the bell housing on the tranny just a bit. Slow and steady with a rotary and grinding bit do the trick, but yeah, the extinguisher is near by.

I have Pinsiders and friends reaching out to pick up machines here locally (for a small fee), wiring me the money. I inspect and pick up the machine and STI picks it up from my home. Is there maybe is someone locally there who you can trust?

Too many people lined up with cash in this market to compete with…anything else.

In 2009 I was looking to buy a 1 of 17 Mustang Shelby GT-H 5 speed manual car from a Hertz executive in Oklahoma City. I wanted the car bad so I did my research and my back ground checks and I sent this executive $65,000 US dollars from a foreign country (Canada). I pretty much had zero recourse if the deal went bad but I booked my flight my flight to Oklahoma City, OK, I shit my pants, but the Hertz executive met me as per our agreement and I picked up the car and drove it Las Vegas for a short stop over until I could bring the car home to Alberta, Canada.

In 2007 I bought a 68 Shelby GT500 from a dealership in South Carolina. I did my homework on the dealership and on all the details of the car. I shipped them $120,000 US dollars and they shipped the car to me in Shelby, Montana where I picked up the car and drove it home to my house in Alberta.

In 2012 I bought a 1993 Mustang 5.0 from a lady in Tacoma, Washington. I drove to Tacoma on December 28th with $12,500 US cash to buy this car and when I got to the sellers house I was greeted by the sellers son who happened to be carrying a side arm (another story I believe I've told somewhere on Pinside). Short of the long is the sellers son was just looking out for his mom and that's why he greeted this foreigner the way he did. Anyway, in the end we were all friends and I did buy the car and no shots were fired . After I bought the car on my December trip, I put it in storage and I flew out in the summer of 2013 to pick it up and drove it back to my house in Alberta.

What's my advice? Talk to the seller, use your intuition and go with your gut. It's always worked out for me in all my car purchases. If it doesn't feel right, don't do it, there's another one right around the corner. But seriously, You not willing to deliver $27,000 for a car you "apparently" want? Don't do it then! You're not gonna loose a cent, I promise you.

QSS

100% true.

QSS

Uship is the best shipping you can find? Come on. Did you not read the stolen TMNT thread? Uship literally doesn't even know who they connect you with.
https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/alert-stolen-pinball-tmnt

I know you say escrow.com protects both parties but I’m guessing,from the seller’s point of view, a cashier’s check or wire gives him all the protection he needs. Worrying about the protection of the buyer is probably not on the top of his priority list.
With that said, take a quick flight out, meet the car carrier that day, give the seller the check and then fly back that day. Easy peezy lemon squeezy.
Good Luck! That’s a cool vehicle.

Most certainly. I bought a Dell monitor on Mercari, paying right away. Sellers need to ship fast and he wasn't shipping. He said he was waiting for payment. I sent screenshots of the payment. Finally I contacted Mercari. They hold your money until the item ships and feedback is give. If buyer doesn't leave feedback in a few days Mercari automatically leaves the positive feedback. This guy couldn't handle that and cancelled the $80 monitor.

Saved me $20 bucks because then one popped up on eBay for $60.