Been a clientele on DN for a long time. I've bought from many many vendors which some have gone off with my money(LONG AGO exit scams) and now we see a different form of scamming which is FE. NEVER FE even if the price is too good to look away or you trust the vendor enough to FE.
Keeping the bitcoins in escrow is like a incentive if you will for the vendor to ship early and get it finalized thus eliminating the volatility of bitcoins over the shipping time. Once FE'd the vendor gets the money and can cash it out for the current value bought as bitcoin price does not circumstantially change over a couple days. With that in mind the vendors will have to ship within and hope the bitcoin price does not go down in the mean time.
Now with Utopic what he does is, he ends up shipping all the ESCROW products first and then FE products get shipped after, even though logically it should be the other way around.
Now how did I come to this conclusion. Heuristically speaking I first gathered data on FE vs NON FE by looking at the price difference in his recently sold section ON AB that is. With that in mind then I did a sentiment analysis on the comments left by the FE'd customer and the NON FE'd customer. FE customers tend to be the once who report LONG ship time that is when I figured it has to be that he was shipping the escrow first. Makes sense so that the buyer will finalize early. DUDE YOU REALLY NEED TO CUT DOWN ON HOW MUCH YOUR SELLING AND CONCENTRATE ON CUSTOMER LOYALTY, because I was going to place a larger order, but not anymore.
Yeah I'm done with Utopic. We pay for priority shipping and then his own vendor description says ships within 4 days max.. then two weeks later there's no package and he never responds to messages.