If you must have paperwork, just create a basic bill of sale stating that the computer is being sold "as is".
CRAIGSLIST DESKTOP COMPUTER LICENSE
If you're worried about them taking down your license plate number, just make sure they leave before you do. Is it going to be a cash transaction? Done in a public place? How would the person track you down? Hire a private detective? On the other hand, one of my colleagues got robbed at gunpoint when he went to buy a laptop a couple years ago. I've had lots of interesting conversations emerge from CL transactions, including with people I never want to see again, EVER, but at least I learned about that swath of humanity in the meantime. CL was built to be a community market with an ostensible community-building spirit, not about preserving completely anonymous arms-length transactions between parties who enter the interaction with mutual paranoia. I understand the temptation to want safety in a transaction with a stranger, but CL doesn't facilitate that - and I'd be a little put off, frankly, if your local publicly-funded police offered you a safe space for your private transaction.
I'm sure not everyone has the luxury of feeling safe with a stranger in her/his home.Ĭomputer equipment is more complex, frail and 'fidgety' than a lot of other goods. I've had plenty of people in my home, but there's a gender component there - I'm big and maybe scary and have loud dogs. It's also a place where you can bring someone, a friend or partner, for additional peace of mind without making their experience 100% about backing you up during a sale. Coffee shops are nice, as you can have a drink and read a book while you wait - and not feel like your time was totally wasted when a buyer/seller fails to show up.
I've done this probably two dozen times without incident. I sometimes agree to meet in public, but for something that doesn't require significant pre-purchase evaluation I just offer to walk down to street level to meet. For anything that plugs into a wall, or plugs into something that plugs into a wall, my line is "guaranteed not DOA, otherwise as-is," and I find that covers any errors I may have made while making it clear to the buyer that I'm not offering any warranty beyond my own veracity at the moment of sale. When I sell stuff I provide a receipt that says, basically, that I own the thing I'm selling and what the buyer paid for it. I, for example, don't haggle as a buyer, and I don't suffer hagglers as a seller. After years of more or less happy CL dealings, following a decade of more or less happy Usenet dealings, I've found that there are degrees of cultural 'fit' with certain kinds of markets.
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