I'm selling speakers for the first time and concerned about fraud

Don't forget, we all started with 0 feedback.

Do you guys in the USA not have E-transfers basically a bank to bank transfer. easiest wY I've used to make buys just have your buyer send you the money 

I would'nt worry so much about zero feedback as that's were we all start.

When I sale something and the buyer has no feedback or low feedback with being a member for sometime I request a payment by check or money order and won't accept PayPal from them.Paypal really only protects the buyer and I've had one bad experience and I don't want it to happen again.

Kenny.

" So PayPal's fraud prevention stuff isn't really a safeguard? "

Its just the opposite. Paypal doesn't care about the buyer or seller. The horror stories are true.

COD or money order is the only way I would do it. No checks.

I was paid a few thousand dollars for some gear years ago…with stolen postal money orders. Took my bank a month to charge them to me, and they supposedly were investigating…right…lesson learned.