Checks to run before confirming receipt on Nexus

Why these are grouped together

By this point the money has already been committed, so these checks are not about avoiding a bad order. They are about not throwing away the protection you already paid for. Escrow holds the payment until you confirm, and confirming is the single irreversible action available to a buyer.

All three items circle the same moment. Inspect before confirming, decline early release requests as policy rather than judgement, and open a dispute rather than absorbing a problem quietly. Each of them is a way of not spending the protection prematurely, and each of them is routinely skipped for reasons that feel reasonable at the time, such as being polite to a seller or wanting a slow order to move.

The blanket policy on early release deserves particular attention. You cannot reliably tell a legitimate request from a fraudulent one, and the cost of being wrong is the whole order with no recourse. A rule you apply without exception is easier to hold under pressure than a decision you make case by case.