Purchasing a CPAP Machine from a Facebook Seller: Need Advice

[chacha897d]

I see a highly-rated Facebook seller offering a CPAP machine from the United States. I intend to pay through PayPal and ask her to ship it from the USA to Canada. Is there anything I need to pay attention to?

[Rickyricardo]

Total hours on it and if anyone smoked in the house.

Don't use PayPal friends and family. They'll ask you to do that because their seller fees are lower. The fees are lower because all that protection you have for something like receiving a box of shoes or a non working CPAP machine, goes out the window and you have no buyer protection at all. You're not sending bail money to cousin Joey, you're buying from a seller. Thus, use regular PayPal.

You might mention the make, model and total hours and price ($US) as people might opine on the value proposition. And what new in sealed bag supplies are included such as mask, cushions, tubing, humidifier tanks etc. Because while cleaning a hose is easy enough, I can't imagine I would ever use a used mask. And you will need a mask. A nasal headgear would be OK to some degree because you can buy just the nasal pillows.

It can't be too hard for a determined con artist to gin up a lot of positive reviews of that paragon of honesty, Facebook. How much weight to assign, plus an over the border deal, that would limit my interest.

Also check Kijiji for local offers. I paid CAD$600 for a ResMed Airsense 11 APAP with 67 hours on it, new headgear, spare tank and new hose in Toronto earlier this year. That's about US$435. And the seller delivered it to me.