Making Online Selling Safer

By Denise Lavoie AP Legal Affairs Writer - Jul 19, 2015

Boston — Michele Velleman needed to sell a Zumba dance fitness kit, a cellphone and a table through Facebook. So she found buyers on Facebook and made the trades at — where else? — the police station. “It is always a little nerve-racking when you go to someone’s house. It’s in the back of your mind: ‘I hope this person is OK and everything turns out all right,’ ”said Velleman, 44, a pharmaceutical executive assistant for a...