This is an interesting lesson. Years ago something similar came up with us in a corporate situation; our attorney asked if we still had any banking info on the offerer. We said yes and he suggested we wire the amount requested to the individual and memo that we accepted his offer to sell. We did. Offer, acceptance, consideration; the three constitute a binding
contract. I think the first buyer could have sent a paypal to the seller and held him to the
contract? Not sure.... others? This is becoming unfortunate in the
boating world. Used to be just a bulletin board post; now it's a link to ebay. Oh well, times change....