I live in Toronto which has several Facebook communities for musicians buying/selling/trading

I'm still sticking with eBay. I've had good experiences with it over the years. There was one notable exception though:
http://forum.cakewalk.com/eBay-fraudster-caught-m3576852.aspx
It came good in the end when the bogus seller was caught by the police and I eventually got my money back.

I'm wondering whether selling on Amazon might be a good option, at least for some types of items, maybe not everything. I used to use Amazon a lot when I lived in the UK.

fireberd
Too many reports of people getting ripped off, locally, on Craig's list.  

Getting ripped off how exactly? Craigslist is local. When you sell something, a person shows up, hands you cash and you hand them the item. Honestly if you're getting ripped off doing it that way, you're going to get ripped off no matter what you do. Meeting in person and accepting cash only is about the most bulletproof way to conduct a transaction there is.

To be fair, you do tend to have to weed through a fair number of scam responses to craigslist ads. But I've found they're extremely easy to weed out. Basically if the person responding doesn't name whatever it is I'm selling in their reply (i.e. is the strat still available?) or only refers to whatever it is as an 'item' I delete the response and move on.

Never had an issue selling anything this way. Like others, I've given up on ebay because I've had issues with buyers making bogus claims about things being defective.

The Craig's list problems are not me, just what has been reported in area newspapers and TV.  Our County police (Sheriff's office) has set up a location for Craig's list transactions that is supposed to be safe but not everywhere has that.

According to area newspapers and TV, if you have a smart phone you're at risk because a bad guy could hack it and figure out where you live. OMG, the horror. A stranger actually knowing where you live. I have a cellphone so I guess I'll beat it with a rock and then sell my house and move so no bad guys figure out where I live.
 
Also according to are newspapers and TV, if your teenager is acting withdrawn and moody, its because they're on dope. A withdrawn moody teenager you say? Who ever heard of such a thing?
 
And don't you dare ever take your car to a local repair shop because according to area newspapers and TV, they'll rob you blind and you won't even know its happening.
 
News media doesn't make money unless the sky is falling. So when the sky refuses to fall, they find ways make you think it is even though it isn't.

Deal with local people. Only accept cash. Only meet them in crowded public locations.

JohanSebatianGremlin
 
Deal with local people. Only accept cash. Only meet them in crowded public locations.

This is good advice.  I live in an apartment building, and have sold my last few guitars in my lobby right beside the security desk.
Subway stations are also helpful, there are lots of people around.  Coffee shops can work, but the more public the better.
 
I'm currently selling a 2x12 combo amp, and have no interest in carting it to another location.  I will invite them into my home to test it, but only after a lot of discussion on the phone/email.
 
I once sold a $5000 watch to someone in the back seat of his car in a dark parking lot.  I was uncomfortable, but he was in town for the evening to take his daughter to a Cranberries concert.  I'm sure he was equally uncomfortable letting a stranger into the car with his teenage kid there.  We talked on the phone a few times to discuss the watch, and made sure we were as reliable as we could assume.  We were both pretty nervous anyway, and I was glad to get to the nearest ATM to deposit the cash.

JohanSebatianGremlin
...Meeting in person and accepting cash only is about the most bulletproof way to conduct a transaction there is.

Not unless you include getting clubbed over the head or robbed at gunpoint or "disappeared off the face of the Earth" as part of the transaction.
 
I've never heard of an online Ebayer falling victim to any of those scenarios.  Just saying -- I'd rather lose a hundred bucks or get cheated out of an amp then try to dig my way out of a shallow grave with a concussion (if I'm lucky). 

I have some experience buying and selling on Reverb.com, and it's been a real boon. Highly recommended, and a PLEASURE to shop on!

In fact, I just recently sold a MM Stingray HH EXACTLY like the one shown in BassRocket's profile pic to some guy in California. It was a snap!!  ...well, other than the odd-looking box I constructed to ship it in.

JonD

JohanSebatianGremlin
...Meeting in person and accepting cash only is about the most bulletproof way to conduct a transaction there is.

Not unless you include getting clubbed over the head or robbed at gunpoint or "disappeared off the face of the Earth" as part of the transaction.
 

True because that does happen hundreds of times per day. Wow, do you smell that? That's sarcasm. I'd recognize it anywhere. Smells fresh too so the assailant must be close by. We'll have to be careful. 

If we're going to truly honest, being robbed at gunpoint or abducted in the course of meeting someone to conduct craigslist transaction is a very real possibility. It most definitely could happen.
 
Of course if we're being truly honest, those things are a very real possibility every single time you leave your house regardless of where you're going or what you're doing.
 
So the next logical question becomes how much more risk are you exposing yourself to by adding a craigslist transaction to the equation vs just being out in public for any other reason. While not scientific at all, a bit of searching on news headlines will quickly inform anyone that it would certainly seem the amount of risk increase is on the order of way less than 1% vs just being out in public. 

Its a risk that's there and it certainly could happen, can't deny that. But honestly if an increase in risk exposure of less than 1% is going to be a deal breaker for someone, that person should probably not be leaving the house for anything ever IMO.