It's fairly obvious. Both buying the same items, both trusting each other with a trade they can never proof of and your only source of proof is him who is a scammer. =). Why take the risk when we have reputable sellers in here guys.
So what do you propose then? Only established sellers could sell their goods and stuff in this forum? That's why we have escrow services readily available to help prevent scammers from plaguing this forum with bad trades. If we don't give a chance to new sellers who accepts escrows no matter how small the trade is, how do you think would the ecosystem be stimulated if the same sellers would be around?
I 100% agree with you especially with escrow but I'm not flaming him or making his trading here a hard time. I'm new here as well so hopefully someone will come to my aid when I'm being accused like how you are doing to him but sadly for this guy what quacks like a duck, walks like a duck, most of the time is a duck. So I propose we investigate. I pasted my steam rep thread group to him but he added my partner instead. Here's proof that it's the same person we are dealing with that was scammed evrryone and almost scam my Friend 9 days ago. Proof of scams are in his bungeerocn account.
http://imgur.com/a/XLN4u