In is NOT a material fact that an item was marked in transit and not sent, regardless of the shipping options ("FE for free express, FE for priority or priority in escrow", according to your previous post). Silk Road advises against Finalising Early for ANY reason, but if buyers wish to do so, they are taking that risk on their own bat. Escrow was an option in this case as you stated yourself: "priority in escrow" was a shipping option, and presumably the one that you chose as you did not FE according to the vendor's shipping policies. If you chose a different shipping option that did require FE, but chose not to do so, then you did not follow the vendor's shipping policies making your entire argument a moot point whatever way you look at it. As I stated previously, vendors that have 35+ transactions and have been selling here for one month or more are entitled to ask you to FE before sending, therefore if a message was sent asking you to FE because you had chosen a "FE shipping option", that would be normal and not reasonable grounds for an administrator to believe that a vendor is scamming. If you have read DPR's statement on the Support Delays in the main Silk Road discussion forum, you will know that SR Support is currently very backed up. If you have not, I would recommend that you do so. It would take a lot longer than 15 minutes to go checking messages from vendors to individuals, then examining each order to see whether the buyer was required by the vendor's shipping policies for each individual order to FE before shipping or not, so please do not assume that it can all be done with the flick of a wrist. The system that is currently in place is the best way of dealing with situations like this one when they arise. If you believe there would be a better way to handle it, feel free to start a thread in the Feature requests forum with your suggestions and if they have merit they will be taken into consideration. Libertas