bitcoin is really safe for people and we can give full trust with bitcoin as long as we can keep our bitcoin with safe. i think if many people in out there know about this, i am sure that they really want to know more about bitcoin and they will make investing on bitcoin because for now, they think that bitcoin is one of the safe and secure investment on internet.
If you deal to other without escrow you can be scam and you can reverse the payment unlike paypal that they have buyers protection that you can reverse the payment or dispute..
Even so, cases of scam happened even with very reputable escrow members from this forum, either because they turned to be scammers or they are hacked, you really have 0 safety and banks are definitely safer than bitcoins.