Hey Reddit family,
Just a quick question about a vendor and what you guys think. I order stamps of heroin on a regular basis from DNM and have had fair success. I have used a handful of vendors with some better then others yet all have landed safely. I had a strange incident that worries me, but includes escrow which makes this strange. Before I tell the story would there be a scenario a vendor could scam, maybe say they mailed it and you are lying about not receiving it, or trying the auto finalize trick? I DO NOT EVER FE JUST FYI
Anyway this is for only about .3 btc but I think after you read this you will say hmmm maybe there is something up. Vendor H-Train who has a pretty good reputation and has been a1 in my book I have a qualm about. My first order from him was 2 weeks ago, I ordered 5 stamps. I ordered on a friday night lats...he shipped it Saturday ON A WEEKEND, and much to my suprise MONDAY morning at 904 am it was in my mailbox.
Great I thought a vendor who literally must live really close and can get me basically overnight priority mail. Ok well he ran out of product right as I messaged him inquiring about more and possibly bulk instead of stamps. He took his listings down so I assumed he was done for. But he sends me a message stating this, we are going on vacation for a few weeks but I have extra stams for the vacation and i could get you another 5 if you want? I agreed and he made a custom listing. This was on New Years so I was told it would be mailed the next business day and he marked it shipped. So he mails it that friday and mind you he mailed it saturday last time and i got it early monday morning. We live close, well Monday arrives nothing, Tuesday nothing.....same for Today. Generally I would allow for more time but knowing not only the vendor but the locations I knew something was not right.
I politely messaged him Monday when it did not arrive and i only did so because on my first order he was so nice and responsive and wanted me to know exactly when it would be in my mailbox etc. And he checked it for me on monday morning last time. But this time a long message explainign how hes on vacation and wont have access to tracking numbers until the next sunday. Says he didn't even need to mail me those 5 out and it was not in his best interests anyway? All of a sudden a 180 change and this is before anything no anger nothing just a question same as last week. And for the record I did not bug him or other vendors in case you are wondering, I only responded to his message on the first order saying basically you are good to go and enjoy and he also stated if needed he would track package for me.
Now here is my concern and I may be being paranoid but what are the chances of a vendor actually being LE. I only ask because for one my mail has never been delivered at 9am in my entire life ans with that speed on the firdt order to gain trust. Then the second package he is strangely not able to track maybe setting up a CD. It could be speculation but this whole thing is just weird, messaging a customer and offering a custom listing when he says he ran out of product...being super fast and polite to basically making excuses about why he can't check tracking and how he is now on a secondary vacation etc. He says he did me a favor by sending them out. I see no reason a package that took 1 day previously would take a week. And more strange is the tracking number lie,,,,you have access to all your tracking numbers no matter what and vacation would not change that.
I am paranoid I know but I've been right before.
Man, it's been the WHOLE weekend since you ordered it, my god. Give it some time. Just because a vendor got you a package in a day before doesn't necessarily mean that will always be the case. Hang tight, smoke some weed. If you're really that paranoid, clean house and you'll feel a lot better.
There's nothing to worry about mate, unless you FE'd and it never arrives. In that case, consider those .3 BTC a lesson learned in vendor vetting.