Escrow an option?
Thanks for asking! That's a good point I forgot to mention. No, I won't accept escrow because I need money for investment 'tonight' (for example, maxcoin).
I do understand why you might want to use escrow, all I can say is that I have a lot (a lot) of refs deep in the community and I have been running multiple investment funds in the community for years. I just repaid a bitfunder loan early despite the price of bitcoin rising 10x during the loan, for example.
Photos are available if you want to see the coins first. I'll even do something strange like hold a fork with some blue cheese on it near the coins, or write usagi on a piece of paper or something. That's about all I can do atm tho.