Prior to mine, all votes were saying, yes, escrow on Bitcointalk works 100%. I don't agree. In my local board alone, I can remember 2 escrows, one reputable across the forum, who kept escrowed money with them when they went inactive all of a sudden. On top of that, even our moderator, an early adopter who also offered escrow services for years, also ran away with huge amounts of borrowed money.
I voted 'would be worse without', but you have to pick the most trusted option.
true is that life happen, and we cant really 100% know what happen in the other side. Assuming escrow rugpulled the other parties is the most obvious and easier conclusion we can reach. I bet in reality we cannot be 100% sure.
My question is then, what an escrow service should guarantee? must it be a company or business of any kind to guarantee the service, instead of a single private person?