Selling a cell phone locally?

[BoSox 15]

I've had luck on both Craigslist and Offer Up.

Holly Springs Police Department has a specific area for buyers/sellers to meet to exchange goods. That's where I meet. If they don't want to meet there, I don't sell it.

I did sell one phone on Offer Up to someone in CA. The buyer pays for the postage, Offer Up emails you a prepaid shipping label, all you do is box it up, attach the label and send it.

[MikeJaquish]

The last phone I sold on CL was an iPhone X. Met at the Cary PD. No worries.

Heck...
I sold a 1987 Lincoln Continental. Back in the day, when you put an ad in the paper.
Feller and wife rolled in from 40+ miles away and counted out 57 Ben Franklins on the trunk lid, in the street in front of the house. Sorta scruffy-looking. Sorta looked like a daylight dope deal, but at least they drove the car away. Nice folks.

Sold all my kitchen cabinets and old appliances after tearing them out. Two great guys drove down from rural Virginia for them, for their new deer hunting camp. 15 Ben Franklins, and nice and neat deal.

Two possible perspectives in life, among many:
1. They are all thieves until they prove otherwise.
2. They are all good people until they prove otherwise.

I tend to default to the second, with a reserve of reasonable alertness and skepticism.
Too many sales calls over the years into all manner of situations, late at night, whatever, to live in fear or prejudice, or to be entirely carefree.
Too many times of locking my vehicle 20' from the front door of the house I was calling on, even in daylight.

In many years of selling, Craigslist, classified ads, PennySaver, I have been slightly uncomfortable one time. A guy met me after dark at the office, and I felt like he was sizing me up. I figured I could take him unless he had a weapon.
Meh. 1 (one) time in hundreds of transactions.