I’ve seen a frame I like. The owner is 3 hours away so posting is required but he has no wish for paypal and wants bank transfer. I’m not happy with that as I obviously have no come back on any issues. Any ideas how I can do this with both parties happy? Cheers.
Is this a private sale? If so*, there is no ‘come back’ – it’s caveat emptor. So the problem you have is not being able to inspect the frame before agreeing to buy. One / both of you need to put the miles in to be able to meet up so that you can inspect it and do the deal (or exercise blind faith in the other person).
* If not, then it’s a business sale, so you have recourse to consumer law, with or without PayPal.
One of my reservations about accepting Paypal in such a situation would be the prospect of Paypal applying consumer-law-type guarantees to private sales, opening the door to numpty buyers messing you about: (‘the brakes you sold me don’t fit my bike’ q.v.)