You got a lot of good advice here in a very brief time.

Not a lot of people traveling at the moment, so if you're selling a bike away from home and hoping a traveller will buy it, this might be difficult. If you're at home, just sell locally.

In my not-so-extensive experience, people who can't come up with cash (and that's CASH, not a bank check or a PayPal deposit) are usually scammers. Although there may be valid reasons for someone to ask you to hold a bike while they make travel arrangements, the most likely outcome is that they won't complete the purchase even with the best of intentions. "It's two years older now" is kind've comical, but I hope you kept the deposit.

That goes doubly for someone who claims to be trying their best but for some reason the bank transfer won't go through. That bank transfer will NEVER go through. Just tell them the bike is on the market and you're accepting the first cash offer. Don't try to accommodate, and don't waste a lot of effort on them.

Much more straightforward to have someone show up with a pocket full of cash. If they like the deal, they hand over the cash and you sign over the bike. The same scams are run by locals, so the same cautions (no bank checks, etc.) apply.

Hope that's helpful.

Mark

Edit to add: I price stuff cheap because I like to see it go away. You might try that and see if it works for you--losing a bit of money that only existed in your imagination anyway can be worth it if it saves messing around endlessly. But not everyone sees it that way.