getin":2e9wf0bo said:
Well it turns out he was just a genuine guy looking for a bike for work, and I was happy to sell it to him, but I won't make a habit of selling bikes in the dark at train stations though.
Realistically, this is a very safe thing to do unless the bike is super-expensive. If someone mugs you for a £200 ebay bike then its an assault charge - possibly a very serious one - they've left a trail behind them on ebay, and because they've travelled by train they'll probably be on various CCTV cameras. And they've no way of knowing who you might bring with you, who else will be around the station, or how dangerous you are. It's one of the most stupid crimes possible.
Especially considering that all they get is a £200 bike - which they won't dare sell on ebay and will have to move quickly because it is evidence in a case the police will actually care about, unlike a normal bike theft, so they'll probably only get £100. For a fraction of the effort and risk they could buy a £5 pair of bolt cutters and hang around their local Tescos until some muppet locks up a Sirrus with a piece of cheesewire, then it's snip and they're gone - and the police really don't care, and in the astonishingly unlikely event they're caught, they're sentenced to repainting a local youth club for a week.
...The time to worry is when someone asks you to turn up with cash to an empty train station - or just possibly to a station that you don't know.