escrowing for himself, but he didnt rip anyone off right?
That depends.
Taking money for the express purpose of protecting goods, and then offering no protection at all could be considered ripping people off. Why was that extra money paid if it wasn't needed?
I agree with this. If someone uses their alt, no protection is offered. Same as sending first, right? If they wanted to send first or trusted the buyer or seller they would have just done so and no escrow would have been needed.
sending first with an
additional escrow-fee
just removed tomatocage from my trustlist because of this:
I don't see how escrowing for himself would be a scam [...]
in case someones interested my new trust list looks like this:
jgarzik
Pieter Wuille
Luke-Jr
gmaxwell
smooth
TECSHARE
-ck
~smoothie
Vod
John (John K.)
~Tomatocage
DeathAndTaxes
BadBear
Blazr
DannyHamilton
rpietila
~nubbins
fluffypony
DefaultTrust
tspacepilot
~Quickseller
(yes i know it contains DefaultTrust. I am using Level 1 and it is by intent)
which displays QS as: Trust: 0: -1 / +13