A possible scam?

No idea, but I'm sure like people doing car buying scams where you meet them with cash to buy a car and 5 of their mates jump out and take whatever you have. There is no shortage of ways these people can scam you that you will never dream of until it's too late.

As above, it’s about a courier to pick it up.. and you sending them money.

That really doesn't matter. I've seen those scams as well, for items priced at as little as €10. Am guessing that like with many other scams, they just sent out thousands of them in reply to all sorts of adverts placed, hoping for just a few people to bite.

Can be fun to string them along sometimes, but I mostly just ignore them.

Some person at a computer somewhere is send 1000s of such messages, or directing automated IT systems to send, only need to find one person to fall for the insurance bit now and then to profit. The nature and value of the item is not important, its the pressure to get you hooked on the topic.

Many years ago played along with a guy knowing the deal was a scam, got to the stage that I was to meet someone to pay in the lobby of a bank in Limerick on a Monday morning… thing was the scammer never heard of St Patricks day, as the bank was closed for the holiday….

The interest shown in the article for sale, is it just a generic message that can apply to anything? It's possible the scammer's message does not take into account any conditions of the sale, as said, thousands of ads are targeted, they just need a few to fall for it and they're in profit.

OP there's only one way to find out for certain. Everyone is telling you it's a scam so if you really want to find out how it works you need to go see.

I reckon the thing about go to Starbucks (or wherever) is a bit of a red herring. If somebody is naive enough to agree to that, they're also likely to be naive enough to fall for the next step, which is where you'll probably get a message about some sort of courier/insurance fee which has to be paid up front, and which you as seller have to pay. You'll be assured that you'll get this money back after the transaction goes through, along with whatever the sale price is for the item itself, but you can probably guess yourself that once you pay the courier/insurance fee, you'll never hear from the person at the other end again.

Basically, they won't care if you actually go to Starbucks. If you turn up there, there'll be nobody to meet you, and nothing will happen, other that you sitting around for however long, feeling ever more foolish and thinking 'I shouldn't have paid that fee up front….'

But they don't care that you only take cash.

If you agree to go to Starbucks the next move they will make is spring the courrier insurance payment story on you before you go, and they will tell you the courrier will pay you cash when you hand over the item to the courrier.

But that will never happen because once you pay that courrier insurance that's the end of the scam.

You keep missing the point. Of course it's possible.

Nobody actually looked at your ad. Nobody read the terms or value. It's one of hundreds of thousands of automated mails sent out. You're giving it too much credence and over thinking it.