I have read bad things about this user. I would highly recommend escrow.
so have i, but i've seen little evidence to back it up. then again, i'm an accused scammer my self so take my word with a grain of salt.
Well it wouldn't hurt to protect yourself and use escrow. I haven't seen anyone demand goods be sent before payment is received.
Escrow is fine as in my OP, those "bad comments" you've seen are a single person trying to say I say scammed for 1 BTC. I can give you names of people I have done deals with no escrows where they sent first for at least $500 on here and their feedback is evident of that. Believe what you want. I would not be surprised honestly if this van3cespencer7 is the same person accusing me, he goes by many alternate names on sealswithclubs.eu and on here.