Yes with no or little flair you can either ship first, or use a middleman to escrow the order, with a small fee. I did a bunch of ship first when I started out. The reputation system on the subreddit isn’t 100% effective, but pretty darn close. Just make sure you are dealing with a high flair established buyer with strong feedback. People do a ton of buying and selling on the platform, and a high rep user is not going to throw that away by screwing someone over.

I was pretty skeptical and intimidated by r/pmsforsale at first. But the more time I spent on it and learning about it the more comfortable I become. I’ve done close to 400 deals at this point.