I had an unfortunate transaction with a fellow member on here recently. You can see my post here: https://www.radowners.com/index.php/topic,541.0.html
His forum name is Frank717. He referred me to someone - colethomas717@aol.com who had a rear rack for sale that I wanted. I ended up sending him the funds via Paypal and since then never heard back from him and no rack was ever sent to me. I must admit I should've been more careful. I shouldn't have sent him the funds as Friends and Family. I was just trying to be kind to cover the fees so he didn't have to and I was just too trusting I guess.
So learn from my mistake fellow Rad owners and be careful with this person on here. If you purchase anything on here or any forum for that matter, don't ever send funds as Friends and Family because you can't dispute it. Also, if anyone ever says they 'know someone else', please be careful.
Sorry to hear that. And yes, that's good advice.