In message 4859247c@qaanaaq, at 16:06:36 on Wed, 18 Jun 2008, Andy
Hall remarked:
Well, I, for one, would NOT sell or buy anything on eBay without doing
it through PayPal......
I've happily bought and sold using both bankers_draft-on-collection
and cash-on-collection. The most recent thing I sold, the chap
insisted on paying by Postal Order. A bit of a pain, but fairly
risk-free.

Good grief. Do people like that still exist?

I'm pretty sure it was a child, and that was the only way they could
easily transmit the funds. I expect "bank of dad" was getting fed up
with being an intermediary.
--
Roland Perry