if something goes wrong on a friends and family ( no fee's ) Paypal will not support you on that transaction......the above ^^^^^^^ is a safe way to do things just make sure it is a stand alone account and not linked to another....and dont leave monies in your paypal account transfer it out so charge backs cant occur

A check can only be stopped prior to funds settlement. Would you ship valuable items before you know the funds are settled? this is why people fall for scams they aren't educated on banking matters.

Cash in person or bank wire transfer only.

This isn't the forum to cover every nuance of transferring funds, the OP asked what is the safest way to accept money for his boat from out of the country and the answer is international bank wire transfer.

And OP, when the buyer makes the transfer call your bank and verify it was an actual wire transfer through SWIFT and not a check that was overnighted. Settled wire transfers are a done deal, scammers overnight checks to make it look like a wire transfer and it can takes weeks before the bank finds out the check was bogus.

Maybe so but Chase bank refused to do a huge wire transfer 1/4 of a million in Florida go figure?

Interesting.... Must be a Florida law. Indiana Chase, last month wired 4 times that and was in account next morning.

Banks have lots of rules they use to determine whether or not they will accept business, sometimes it makes no sense but there are plenty of stories online about people having accounts closed and other stupid stuff like that.

If the bank won't accept a wire transfer you might have to find another bank or if you are 100% certain the deal is legit then I'm sure it is safe to accept a check, if the check is from a closing company handling a house sale for instance.

When dealing with strangers it is cash or wire transfer only.

Wire Transfer is your best option. I recently sold a truck for $20k through wire transfer. Once the payment processed into my account I released the truck to the shipping company and off they went...

My bank is in Covid-19 lock down. Drive thru business only. Any thing else must be done
with an appointment. The first opening is in 4 days. What a clusterf*ck.
I guess it will be Western Union.

A friend got scammed on a supposed PayPal transaction for a few jet skis he bought out of state. Seller sent him a PayPal “escrow” link of some kind, and he sent the money, turns out it was a fake PayPal site they had built to scam people, with a very similar web address and some masking of some kind. Be wary of any links that are sent to you.

Chase in Florida Accepted a large sum through a wire transfer from my Credit Union Years Back from NY. Interesting

Still no word from captain chaos.