Or, he can just negotiate himself and if he decides to have me do the work later on, ship the block to me.

I'm too busy to play escrow guy.
The questions I would ask are:
1. Can you take more or show more pictures. Most of those OTC NOS blocks are painted up like a show girl in the lifter valley. It's obviously a service replacement block because it has ribs on it, but I'd like to see more pictures. Last one I bought still had factory cam bearings and main bearings in it. Looks like this one does to.
2. You are advertising it as brand new, never run. If me or my builder gets it and sees otherwise, what courses of action do we have?
3. What's your bottom dollar on it?