This should serve as an example to all beginners, if someone can't buy or sell their digital assets on exchanges, you have the right to be suspicious, teach them how to if you can but don't ever buy from them, it can be stolen digital assets.
why will you agree to buy bitcoin from someone directly when you can easily get it through an exchange? the fact that the person does not want to sell it through p2p option but rather wants to sell it to you at a subsidized rate makes it more suspicious and there is no way i am going to buy into such idea. there are a lot of implication of doing physical buys and sells of bitcoin with some one you know physically. one of such implication is that you tend to expose yourself to the person to know that you own such worth of coin and with the numbers of bad people we have around, same person that sells you the coin can still be the same person that will rebel you later and send thieves and hackers at you.