I have a line on a pin, but it's long distance.

I've never done this with shipping and wire transfers.

Can someone please walk me through the process?

Seller will ship to me STI insured and shipping is included in the price (IOW seller will pay for shipping).

He's a longtime member of Pinside but I have not spoken to him prior he doesn't post here a lot.

Note: I'm not getting any bad vibes but I'm just worried regarding sending a wire transfer to a bank. I'm sure it happens all the time but what am I to look out for?

TX to Maryland

Owner just bought it new just a few weeks ago but needs to get money, said he'd put it back in the box with packing material.

it's around $900 less than I can get a NIB, if not that, I would just buy new.

What about the funds transfer. Seller wants wire transfer (which doesn't give me any protection)?

no it's not.

update 2 weeks later

thanks for the replies, I didn't want to go into exhaustive details before but I got the pin and lived to tell. I did a wire transfer that was sweaty palms business. But I had a GREAT seller and I think he went above and beyond to make it easy and stress free.

here is the details (posted in another thread)

I was looking for a Woz and specifically a RR with the 2.0 light system. Of course there are countless used Woz pins but specifically new RR with 2.0 system are not for sale in abundance.
Anyway found myself with money and found a motivated seller it was a perfect match. He needed to sell so his price was great and he was willing to ship.
However the pickle was that Vid says never ever wire money. As noted in the thread how not to get ripped off. I know it was not my ideal but it was either wire money or lose the pin. This was not a road trip it was 1400 miles shipping.
So a couple things, the seller is a Pinsiders and he is medium well known on Pinside. I mean he's not a well known Pinsiders but he's not a newbie.
A) he has a few real business which he notified me of, he's on those web sites with his name and picture
B) he has Facebook which I was able to look at and he looks normal
C) he has eBay for 15 years with 100% approval (I checked out he was who he said on eBay) I looked at his sale history which included selling full pins.
- I had him contact me with his eBay account to assure it was indeed his account.
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D) he has a phone and we communicate live as well as him sending me videos of himself and his business store and his pins, showing he is who his not someone who says he is not someone who just got all the above mentioned identity events correct. His video matches his Facebook, his business websites and his pin collection from Pinside.
Still I was nervous to wire the money as the banker told me once she pushes the send button the money is gone. But I had got such good vibes (the opposite of the first post in this thread).
I'm not saying what I did was the smartest thing in the world but hopefully it will work out, I did get the pin today but not set up yet.
Was sent by seller STI fully insured for more than the sale price.

Priced this pin new and I saved greater than $1200 by buying long distance

The pin is absolutely beautiful, had more plays than I was expecting 900+ but it looks brand new.

I was not expecting it to, but it has RadCals which I love and the seller didn't know either but I can definitely see they are very thick plastic glossy cabinet decals

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