I was definitely nervous when I sold my last car and was rolling around with $20k in my pocket. My brain knows the odds are very low, but my instinct knows the expected loss is very high.

Those kind of risk are hard to evaluate.

It seems if you were selling a used car for $20k that you might have the forethought to request a cashier's check from a reputable bank. Easier in many ways than living with the terrible toll of worrying about walking around with 20k in your pocket...

Well coldcode & sliverstorm, I guess you don't have to visit the other thread to see what I was talking about. Its almost as if crime had gone up instead of way down since the 60's and 70's, or everyone is really confident everyone else can avail themselves of all the financial instruments a bank offers.

In general checks cannot be trusted, no matter the bank it claims to be from.