Back to the bL4nkcode case, I'd say he should have applied this:
I'd say: "Rule One: Never change the deal." applies (
quote taken from The Transporter movie). If anything changes, a good default would be to delay the release of escrowed funds quite a bit.
Maybe a better solution would have been to refund ~ if anything changes. ~ But that requires strict rules from the escrow, known upfront, which wasn't the case here.
about the bL4nkcode case,
crwth just confirmed that they did everything completely amateurishly. He finds where the funds should be spent, says to cabalism and he asks from blankcode to send bitcoin. Without any document, or any specification how exactly will cost and time when he will do it all.
So there are no strict rules because everything was based on the fly an agreement through a couple of messages.
When we talk about Bitcointalk escrow (based on the bL4nkcode example, he is not logged in here on the forum, even if he is active on Telegram), someone says escrow is "very little work", is it a good practice not to have escrow appear here for a week? It's a "little work", but that means little is always available here?