I understand all points being made, but I'm gonna try and be optimistic on this one.
What really pushes me to not think he is scamming me on this is that he has done much bigger deals than just $450 (he said he'd send $500 for making me wait) and those went smoothly. If he wanted to scam someone I'm sure he could make a thread with a bunch of equipment for 2k+ and then scam everyone there. $450 is a lot of money, no doubt, but I'm just saying he could pull off a much higher scam on this site, so why just a sub worth $450? Doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me...
I have looked at his feedback, and I do know that he is a repuatable guy, but when I sent first I just didn't expect that it would take this long to receive payment. I do know though (or at least at this point, hope) that he will get me the money someway or another.