My Experience with Darknet Markets has Fucking Sucked

First, in early November, I registered on Sheep Marketplace because SR 2 seemed like a honeypot, I hadn't heard of tormarket, and I was just unlucky in that I arbitrarily chose sheep over BMR. This was before any cries of scam. I ordered $100 worth of products and literally the next day the shit went down. The NEXT. DAY. Didn't receive my orders, lost $100. Fuck, guess I'm gonna have to work the two days I was planning to take off, but whatever. Fine.

Then. I register on TorMarket. Buy ~$75 of product. Some of it being from Hyperslapp, a vendor who, as of to-fucking-day, has a huge possibility of being a scammer. I FEd because I saw he had been on sheep and I felt bad for a fellow sheep. Turns out I'm a fucking jackass. Shipped out on the fourth, has not arrived yet and it will not arrive. I will be lucky to get a fraction of my money back.

Other shit gets intercepted. Asked to sign for a package by a white guy with a fire red beard who I've never seen before. My normal mailman is a short black guy. He's very insistent on me signing. I turn it away, ask the vendor about it, he says yep you shouldn't have signed for it. Problem: BOTH of us are new to this marketplace, so we don't know how to mark an order as unarrived and he doesn't know how to refund me. Orders will be open for dispute on the 18th, but so far support on TorMarket has fucking sucked.

I messaged support 4 days ago about getting refunded, haven't heard back yet.

In conclusion: fuck.

Edit: I realize that #175 is a trivial amount compared to what some people lost, but for me, a minimum wage worker who just wants to trip occasionally, it blows.

Edit 2: by "the shit went down" I do not mean the actual site going down, I mean the whole fake withdraw timer, the minimum btc withdrawal, the vendors listing products at low prices they had never listed before, etc.


Comments


[7 Points] None:

before any cries of scam. I ordered $100 worth of products and literally the next day the shit went down. The NEXT. DAY

that's impossible. People were calling scam for at least a week before "the shit went down".

sucks to hear your problems!


[6 Points] Anon352120:

What product did you buy? Where from? And where are you from? It's weird to see a CD for low quantities, or for a first timer even.


[7 Points] SR_Sage:

How about more info on the guy showing up at your door?


[3 Points] None:

You got screwed by Hyperslapp too? Join the fucking club. Was your intercepted order international or domestic?


[2 Points] None:

I've had great luck with darknet markets up until recently. Coinbase takes 6 days to get me my coins and every time I've bought coins recently the price of bitcoin has plummeted leaving me with fucking shit for coins. I am really pissed about this.


[3 Points] toad3527:

My mailman is a short black guy too.


[1 Points] junglebooty:

sorry your expereinces suck but dont give up. wen i first started i wanted to try everybodys product (the meds i choose to use i should say). but after being screwed a few times its best to pick one or two and stick with them. some vendors stealth is beyond great and some had me thinking WTF. i wonder if thats the reason you had a visitor. of course FE is frowned upon and it should, but my vendors are very professional and i feel safe FE with them. go with well known vendors and stay away from the newbies. verified vendors usually have good stealth and of course great stuff as they would not be verified. we all lose money. between sites shutting down and FE early with scammers, i personally lost about 400. oh well part of the game. i have only one vendor for each of my meds. dont get discouraged, do ur security and vendor homework, cheap is not always good. u get wut u pay for.AND NEVER STORE COINS ON DARK MARKET. deposit what u need only for purchase. yea it might be a few bucks left over but thats better than losing hundreds.


[1 Points] anon0512:

My history so far :

1 I buy BTC. It takes a week or so (very slow money transfer to Mt Gox). The day I finally have my coins, Silk Road is seized. Phew, that was a close one.

2 I order some C. on BMR Guy seems legit, I FE. Of course the guy disappear. Scam. Ok my fault.

3 At the same time I order some weed on BMR . Never arrived (customs?). Didn't FE. Got a lousy 25% refund (BTW why the fuck don't we share the risk 50/50?)

4 I could have stopped there, but luckily the BTC goes up so I still have funds. I say fuck BMR, let's go to Sheep! (!) I buy C from CocaParis (only good vendor I met, and domestic which is good). The day later, Sheep is down. I spent the weekend wondering wheter or not the package had been sent.

Turned out yes, this time the seller got fucked but I finally have my product. Just to say I have a 1 for 3 success rate (and that success was a loss for the seller). How is yours? Are those markets efficient or are they scam machines?


[1 Points] janus420:

"You might think I am a dick but this is excellent advice."


[2 Points] licking-windows:

yeah man it's tough times. The best option for us at the moment is TMP, it just takes a liiiiittle more effort to use that site as it's i2p not tor.


[0 Points] aintnoway12:

Bro there is no way you got a controlled delivery and simply because you refused the package they just walked away and didn't say a word to you. Do you know they have to go through a lot of trouble to conduct a CD and even if they would not be able to arrest you because you denied knowledge of the package they would have revealed themselves to you and grilled you trying to get you to confess. I dont know what happened but if you really got a CD its not over by a long shot.


[0 Points] janus420:

"He's very insistent on me signing." Tell him to wait a sec then get one of your roommates to sign for it.


[-4 Points] CouncilAnderson:

I'm sure I will get downvoted a million times for this, but:

If you are working a minimum wage job, you shouldn't be taking drugs. You have more important things to do with your time than do drugs. Like getting a better job.

You might think I am a dick but this is excellent advice. Fix your life before you spice things up with drugs.


[-9 Points] LongLiveThe_King:

Most of this has been caused by you. It sucks, but don't blame the markets for your own mistakes.

My experiences have been absolutely amazing, I'm almost as happy as I was when tSR was around.