How common are these vendor scams, and is there anything a customer can do against?

Lets take these two scenarios for bulk orders:

  1. Vendor sends empty box claiming it was full.

  2. Vendor sends box to someone in same city and claims it was you who picked it up.

  3. Vendor intentionally sends wrong wrong product

  4. Vendor sends bunk product (10% purity instead of advertised 80%)


If the vendor has been around for at least a half year as a vendor and has a decent reputation, do you think there's anything a customer can do?


Comments


[10 Points] None:

that's 4 scenarios


[3 Points] None:

  1. If a vendor sends an empty box, you can and should leave a terrible 0/5 review, you can also get 50% of your money back if its in escrow. If he does it often enough, no one will use him, unfortunately you do lose your money.

  2. Common scam, same deal as number 1

  3. So if they can they will. Weed will generally be a different strain than advertised, maybe others sell MDMA as MDA or whatever makes money. The thing is they can't sell nbomes as LSD, or sell methylone as MDMA long term. We would (and have in the past) find out very quick. Once again leave reviews.

  4. Check out /r/dnmavengers, there's virtually nothing you can do unless you lab test and try to prove it (costs 50 euros to do) As a general rule, nothing you're getting is as pure as advertised, and tabs will normally be under dosed.

  5. Beats the hell out of real life dealers, who sometimes beat you when they rob you, and consistently get way better quality. Happy druggings!


[2 Points] UDNM:

do you think there's anything a customer can do?

There are two options:

  1. Stay in escrow.

  2. Report the vendor to the admins, if enough people do he should be investigated for scamming.

  3. Find out who the vendor is and extort him.

  4. Learn how to count.


[1 Points] Hank_Vendor:

... 5. Vendor sends nothing

Number 5 is quite common. As is I guess number 2. Going on the fact that presumably tracking in US doesn't show the address on the receipt.

If it does customers should just ask for a snap of that with the reference number.


[1 Points] Trappy_Pandora:

You could tell the vendor. If you've been doing business with him for quite some time then its probably a mistake if any of those things happen.

Several months ago I had a long conversation with a pill buyer. He bought MDMA pills but was sent PMA pills and refunded 100% after alerting the vendor. But he still had thousands of those PMA pills, what to do? Thats a lot of money even at a dollar per pill. 100% profit too.

He flushed them down the toilet, and even made a thread about it. Those poor sewer gators, their hearts surely exploded in their chests. Fortunately, no people would suffer that same consequence. You the reader have surely seen your friend or acquaintance pop the second pill before the first one takes affect. With PMA, that is death.

I'm glad you're taking precautions. Just don't dismiss human mistakes. Vendors are people too, and they need to know when their own suppliers are scamming them. It happens. You're that resource that can help them, and rescue them from pouring more money into the pocket of their scummy supplier.