Selling a mixer to Brazil?

I'm not keen on selling audio gear outside the UK so wondering about other member's experiences if they've done this.

This guy says he'll 'send a UPS postman to my home to deliver payment in cash and collect the parcel'.

Yeah, right...

I know UPS, FedEx and other international couriers offer a range of services but I've never used them for sending any item abroad before. It seems very unlikely any one of them would operate like this.

Then there's customs clearance, fees etc..

I don't want to waste time looking at all this if it's a lot of hassle...

Opinions, thoughts appreciated.

Cheers,  Steve/soundscape

Abbey Audio

Nottingham

There is a well known scam scheme with this kind of transactions (item paid by the courier when he collects it)

-> agree on the delivery mode, give some personnal information (phone email, etc)

-> you receive a false mail from the courier (not really coming from the courier) saying that you should pay some sort of insurance upfront, and explaining that the insurance sum will be given back to you with the item payment, in cash, by the courier. They can call you or whatever to appear more legit / convincing.

Of course if you pay that "insurance" you will never hear from the courier or the "buyer" again.

Not saying that it has to be a scam, it may be genuine, also I think most people would detect the scam when receiving the mail (coming from an adress like ups-security@gmail.com and not from the ups domain) and would not pay that "insurance", but just so you know, that exists.

EDIT : also nothing to do with the buyer being in Brasil, I've seen those scam on french 2nd hand sales website, the scammers may of course be based on another country and use a fake identity, but usually for maximizing the chances of scam they try to appear from the same country of origin.

Steve

Abbey Audio

Nottingham