Selling/buying precious metals online or by mail - is it just a bad idea?

It seems to me that bunco artists would be drawn to precious metals transactions. The only time I was ever taken on eBay involved the purchase of a gold coin from a seller in Canada (A complete scam as it turned out. At least it was back in the days when eBay would pay fraud claims even if PayPal hadn't been used.)
Unless I actually know who I am dealing with I would pass on any bullion transactions that involved online or mail dealing.
What do you think?
Unless I actually know who I am dealing with I would pass on any bullion transactions that involved online or mail dealing.
What do you think?
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I have done it for years, w/o incident.
not endorsing them , just mentioning another site . buyer/seller decides which
online dealer works best for them .
a search would bring up many other places to shop