Every now and then, folks will complain about Craig's list and flamers who complicate your life. But, I have bought and sold a fair amount of stuff, cars, machine tools, tractors and implements, and pretty much everything went according to plan, both mine and the other party's. For example, I took down an old, fairly large TV antennae with a rotator. Before hauling it to the metal recycling center, I took a couple photos and put it on CL. Two days later, I was loading into a guy's pickup truck and putting cash into my pocket. OK.
Most curious example was my wife's 7 or 8 year old used Honda Civic Hybrid... trade in was too low, I felt, so onto CL it went with good photos. We are in Maryland. A guy in Wisconsin emailed me with questions, I scanned some documents and took a couple dozen photos. We agreed on a fair price, he flew into Baltimore's BWI airport, and drove the car home.
About a year later, he emailed me to say the car was great, and had saved him a fortune in gas on his long commute.