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July 16, 2015

Selling online? Meet buyers at the police station

  • More than 100 police departments now provide “safe zones” in their lobbies or parking lots where people can make their deals and know that police are only feet away.
  • By DENISE LAVOIE
    AP Legal Affairs Writer

    BOSTON (AP) — Michele Velleman needed to sell a Zumba dance fitness kit, a cellphone and a table. So she found buyers on Facebook and made the trades at — where else? — the police station.

    “It is always a little nerve-wracking 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 pharmaceutical company who lives north of Boston in Georgetown. “I think my mother is happier I'm doing it this way.”


     
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