I wish you all the best with this auction. I'm pretty sure that nobody would be stupid enough to give a random newbie their ID.
Thanks for the tip, and to minerjones for the escrow suggestion. I didn't think asking for ID was stupid, I'm just trying not to fall prey to scammers. Meeting in person would be ideal.
no one here will send you ID.. that is just a silly request. the safest way to transact is with an escrow and a trusted 3rd party to receive the goods, confirm they are as sold then to instruct escrow to release.
this protects buyer and seller.
I'm all for buyer/seller protection. Using an escrow is a great idea. Would you pay them/we split the fees in that case? Does it fall to the escrow service to pay for postage to you?
Also, I checked bitstamp and they don't give a BTC/GBP rate. What about using XE?
http://www.xe.com/currencytables/?from=XBT