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Originally Posted by wobuffet
When's the last time an escrow has been successfully recruited and used on Marketplace, anyways? I don't recall ever seeing someone successfully recruit a reputable user willing to act as an escrow here.
The idea is that you or the other party already know someone reputable that can help you, as opposed to recruiting someone. I set up an escrow with another mod when I wanted to purchase something from a newer poster, to put the guy's mind at ease and protect myself.
Of course, two relative unknowns who don't know anyone aren't getting an escrow, but that comes with the territory. In that case you might have to bite the bullet and use paypal as a middleman or something like that, if you're looking to do a bigger deal. But doing escrows for random unknowns is pretty dumb the way things are, nothing but downside.