Buying MacBooks, iPods, iPads, and iPhones Off Of Craigslist

Just as a friendly reminder from MacMedics, please use caution when arranging to meet someone to buy Apple hardware off of the popular on-line classifieds site, Craigslist.
It’s a fairly common scam that a “seller” will arrange to meet you someplace to sell a highly desirable Apple hardware item at a great price. You show up with a couple of hundred dollars in your pocket and the “seller” then robs you of your money.
If a deal on Craigslist sounds too good to be true, is probably is.
See this story from the Anne Arundel County Police, where this exact scam resulted in an armed robbery in the Wal-Mart parking lot right up the road from our office in Severn, Maryland.