yea there's no measure too 'extreme' to ensure ur safety particularly when selling high demand items for a lot of cash.
i had a scary situation a long time ago when i sold some playoff 12s, this dude (who i had googled before meeting) was some sort of banker or some shyt, plus he was asian so i figured he was safe

i met him outside a shopping center parking lot. everything was cool until he came out his car and was covered in what looked like japanese gang tats

and he was big as fukk. he was cool but what i
didnt notice was a dude on a hayabusa that had parked behind us, when we exchanged money he just nodded at the dude that i didnt know was there and the dude took off
i could've gotten robbed right there. that's why it's police stations or

i always drive around or go somewhere after too, never go directly home after selling shyt

paranoid