followed through on his word and paid almost a month in advance to reserve a pair of pants he picked up locally, not much more you could ask for in a buyer. 10/10
^pants were returned to me a few days before that last one was posted, marked as undeliverable. at that time i was having a completely unexpected technology issue that prevented me from accessing my online banking, so it took a few days to reimburse the money
he was reimbursed in full and the situation was completely resolved