That is the beauty of operating in a free market - both buyer AND vendor are completely free to choose with whom they do business, and once the vendor has racked up 35+ transactions and been a vendor for a month or more, is entitled to ask buyers to FE. Silk Road is a free-market marketplace first, and a place where people list drugs for sale second, not the other way 'round. That being said, follow scout's advice to the letter. Do not FE - doing so removes all the protection that escrow offers, and you have no comeback in the event that something goes wrong. Libertas