Buying Advice Best way to sell a tractor?

[D2Cat]

I've sold (and purchased) many items on Ebay. Everything from an end dump trailer, 200HP tractor to gauges. Never had a problem on either end.

CL is a different story. I sold a trencher and was trusting/dumb enough to accept a check. I had the trencher at my house and a parts machine at my farm. We loaded the trencher, then went to the farm and loaded the parts machine. When we were all loaded and tied down. He offered $100 less. I said no we already agreed on the price. So he said he'd have to write a check. That was on a Sunday afternoon. I cashed the check Monday, and by Thur. the funds were removed from my account because had "Stop Payment" on his end.

The saving part on my end is he traded a nice 16' two axle trailer with a title, so I wasn't out too much.

25 year old with wife and child in truck. It became obvious he planned the situation and had probably done it several times as practice!

From then on, all sales are cash. If buyer does not have cash, no reasons or excuses pass. The item says with me.

 

[Poopdeck Pappy]

Yep, cash only and face-to-face only. That's the only way to roll.

In your situation, you could probably have given that check to the district attorney on a theft / hot check charge. Writing a check for goods or services and then stopping payment can be considered theft.

 

[flusher]

I put this under Buying Advice, but I really need Selling Advice. What is the best way to sell a tractor and all the attachments?

I've listed it here in the classified section, but does anybody have any good experience with Craigslist or eBay, etc? I have a Deere 4120 with grapple, forks, brush hog, chipper and stump grinder, and I'd like to sell it all as a complete package instead of breaking it up.

Any advice is much appreciated.

I used Craigslist to sell six of my seven tractors when I put my ranch on the market in late 2014. No problems at all. Had them sold in less than 2 weeks. These six tractors were old, vintage iron, 4 running, 2 not. The seventh tractor was my 2008 Mahindra 5525 that my neighbor bought once she saw the for sale sign go up on my property.

Also sold all my haying equipment (two discs, 10 ft wide grain drill, 10-ft wide 5-bar side delivery rake, two sicklebar mowers, Massey Ferguson 124 baler) on Craigslist. Multiple buyers.

Good luck.