If you wait until the
cheque shows up, have the cash in your hot little hand, then the radio
gets sent out, where's the scam ???

Because you are responsible for that cheque, even if it should be determined
false 8, 10, 12 weeks later .....and therein lies the scam. Now, if the bank
accepts it with "NO RECOURSE" written on the back, that MAY protect you...have
to ask the wife, she works in the fraud section of a major US bank. I DO know
that a international certified cheque may take up to 8 weeks to properly
clear, so I'd not ship a thing until I get a full-blown "green light" from the
bank.

A