I would just add that I purchased a from eb3full without escrow. He simply created a contract and emailed it to friedcat with a deadline for payment to be sent to a certain address.
Went very smoothly and showed the power of Public-Private key encryption.
+1
Never understood why escrow is ever needed for Asicminer transfers. Did friedcat confirm the contract to you before payment?
friedcat can confirm ownership of the shares, it just takes a bit longer to get a reply from him like that.