If orders are placed and the vendor marks them as in transit, what is different about this compared to how it used to be months ago, or even for SR1? I saw some threads about how the site no longer escrows, and that everything is FE. But I have not been asked to FE, and the vendors' profiles don't say anything about requiring it. So I'm unclear as to what my risks are right now.
If everything is FE only now, why would you have to be asked to FE? There is no escrow at all. If you had to be asked to FE, and okay the FE, there would still be escrow on the site. You do not get to give your permission to FE. The money goes directly to the vendors account the second you confirm the order.