Cannabis Road: A Cannabis Only Marketplace
We'd like to give a huge thanks to everyone here at /r/DarkNetMarkets that helped make our launch so successful. In our first week we've seen such a positive response and we have been truly overwhelmed by your generosity. We love hearing your suggestions and feedback and we've made quite a few improvements to the site in the last week. If you guys have any more suggestions, please contact us on the forums or open a support ticket. At Cannabis Road we're dedicated to doing whatever we can to make your user experience as smooth as possible. With that being said, I'd like to share with you a few updates we've made to the site in the last week as well as a small thank you gesture to everyone that's visited our site.
A few feature updates...
Autofinalize for Vendors:
Vendor's transactions will now autofinalize within 14 days from the time the item is marked as shipped - The buyer or vendor can request an extension by contacting support.
- We may consider added 7 day autofinalize for some proven vendors with domestic shipping in the future.
Refundable Vendor Bonds:
New vendors must now deposit a ฿0.50 refundable bond in order to vendor on Cannabis Road. - The bond will be refunded to you once you have completed $1,000 in sales and have been a vendor in good standing for 30 days.
- Legacy vendors or vendors from other marketplaces which are in good standing can contact support and get a free vendor account by verifying their identity via PGP.
Buyer Stats on feedback:
Vendor profile feedback now displays anonymized buyer stats which display total money spent, total vendors used, and total orders placed We've implemented buyer stats on our feedback to help buyers better determine what feedback is legit and what feedback was likely left by a shill. Now when you view feedback on a vendor's profile, you'll be able to see anonymized buyer stats next to each feedback which shows approximately how much that buyer has spent, how many vendors they've used, and how many orders they've made. This should help determine which feedback is more credible than others.
Here's an example of how it looks:
http://i.imgur.com/zjyAWAE.png
Vendor listing feedback now displays TRUE purchase price, time ordered, as well as the other buyer stats Product listing feedbacks display the true purchase price, so if a vendor tried to change the price on the item to mislead users, it will be easier to tell they're up to something. All these changes are designed to help the buyer make better decisions.
Here's an example of how it looks:
http://i.imgur.com/lxePo1T.png
If there are any other improvements you can think of to help make feedback better, we'd love to hear your suggestions.
Enchanced Search:
You can now search by vendor name or product name - Pretty simple yet important feature has now been added. You can search by vendor or product now.
Some UI Tweaks:
- We also made a few minor UI tweaks to make it easier to pick the most reliable vendors. You'll notice ratings and total sales are displayed next to vendor names on each listing. This should help you better decide what vendors are new and which ones have experience.
Vendor Panel Changes:
We've added quite a few improvements for vendors to make managing listings easier from the vendor panel. The process is very smooth now and not at all time consuming since you can repeat multiple actions with 1 click. Makes posting / editing and managing listings really easy, something you'd have to see for yourself to know.
Monthly Raffle - Angel Eyes
Win up to 1 Oz of FREE Top Shelf Bud!
As a small thank you gesture to everyone that has visited our marketplace, we are going to be extending our 4/20 raffle into a monthly event, featuring a new vendor each month. So if you weren't one of the fortunate winners last time...
This month's raffle is sponsored by Angel Eyes, a grower of some of the most exquisite buds the darknet has to offer. She specializes in indoor, hydroponic buds and is an absolutely enjoyable personality that loves to talk about her passion of growing. Check her out and you won't be disappointed, that is our guarantee!
Grand Prize: 1 FREE Oz of Angel Eye's top shelf buds.
Simply post here to enter: http://forumzxmoorof4ja.onion/index.php?topic=100.0
Winner will be picked using a random number generator on the 20th of each month!
We had our first scammer :(
We unfortunately had our first scammer on Cannabis Road.
He setup under the name WestCoastCollective, had no reputation from any other markets, and was apparently asking all his customers to FE. We thought this was pretty fishy, so we looked into his account and suspended it. After chatting with him a bit, he basically fessed up to being a scammer.
We're sorry to anyone who lost money to this guy :(
We want to take this moment to remind you guys to please, please, please never FE, ESPECIALLY when you have no reason to trust the seller.
WestCoastCollective has been banned now and we have introduced the ฿0.50 refundable vendor bond to hopefully cut down on this being a possibility in the future.
Escrow is a powerful tool and any respectable vendor will allow you to use it. If there's a vendor requesting "FE only", you should seriously consider and think "why does he need FE when many other very respectable sellers do not?". The answer is that it's usually always a scam.
Be careful out there and we'll do our best to proactively catch these scumbags before they can do too much damage. Furthermore, encourage your vendors to use multisig! It really isn't hard and we have super easy to follow step-by-step guides on the forums. Multi-sig would make all scams impossible! Let's start using it!!
A few final words...
Finally, thanks again to everyone that has shown us their support and given us their feedback. If you haven't already, come check out Cannabis Road - it's pretty rad. If you're a cannabis vendor on another market, we'd love to talk to you. We have a lot of things that we think you'd find attractive like multisignature escrow and we're pleasant people in general. Come join us on the forums or leave us a comment here!
We look forward to bringing you all beautiful buds,
-Crypto_CR
Cannabis Road Admin
Cannabis Road Market URL: http://cannabiskofvl7pa.onion
Cannabis Road Forum URL: http://forumzxmoorof4ja.onion
glad you sniffed out the scammer. i saw his name on CR the other day and thought it was someone trying to capitalize on ECC's good name and it really doesn't surprise me that it was a scammer.