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Craigslist Fear. Help!
This isn't really a FM issue, but it doesn't truly fit anywhere else.
SIL is buying a jogging stroller off of Craigslist. She lives in a more rural area of the country, 2 1/2 hours from DH and me. So, she found this stroller from a seller in the metropolitan area in which I reside.
She emailed me the other day and asked if I could go pick up the stroller and pay for it and that she would collect it from me at a later date and reimburse me for the item. I have agreed - not worried about any of this.
I am wary of meeting strangers in random ways like a Craiglist way. Perhaps I have read too many news articles or watched too many cop dramas on TV.
Anyway, I agreed to the pick-up but only during daylight hours and in a public place.
We are meeting in the parking lot of a Target store, which I selected.
However, and here's what has me weirded out...the woman told my SIL (and SIL told me) that she would meet me in the corner of the lot furthest away from the store's entrance.
Does this seem odd to anyone else?
Maybe my pregnant mommy brain is working overtime since I will have my kids with me in the car. But, I do know the suburb, which she selected to meet in (I wanted another suburb) is a hot bed of human trafficking due to its location of interstate highways.
The pick-up is tomorrow at 3pm. So far it is on. I am planning to arrive earlier than that.
Re: Craigslist Fear. Help!
My SIL just emailed me. She said that it's a man meeting me, driving a Chevy Tahoe. If my DH were here, this wouldn't be an issue. According to SIL, it's his wife that's selling the stroller.
I really don't like this.
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To a point, meeting in the furthest corner makes sense. It will be easy to identify each other and you can do your transaction w/o worrying about traffic/ other people.
However, I understand your concern and if you can't get someone
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I agree. I don't think they meant to be weird about meeting in the furthest corner I think it was just so they knew who you were and who they were. Maybe you can contac thte person directly. Say that you are coming alone and dont feel comfrotable meeti
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Trust your gut!! If you're not comfortable, don't do it!
I wouldn't meet a guy if I was by myself either. I mean, maybe it's fine, but why take the unnecessary risk? There are other strollers out there.
or, get your DH to go. </p
This honestly doesn't sound like that big of a deal. He probably wants to meet you in that specific corner of the lot so that you're both easy to spot. It's hard to be the first one there and then keep your eye out for some other specific vehicle from
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Thanks for all the input.
It's a moot point now, my kids were sick today so I wouldn't have gone anyway since one had a fever of 103.
To the PP who asked about DH - he travels - a lot. Had he been here this would not have been an issue.
Have you considered that your SIL was dealing with a woman, who had the same fear and is sending her husband instead as well?
So you could have essentially had two annoyed husbands meeting in the far corner of a Target parking lot to exchange (wh
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