Ethereum has recently been sky rocketing in value. If you were to have bought $500 worth of Ethereum 30 days ago, you would now have about $2,000. Now that Alpha Bay has implemented Ethereum, if you buy some and sit on it for about a month you could possibly be able to quadruple the amount of product you buy. And quadruple is probably and understatement because most vendors offer bulk discounts.
Why would any vendor accept ether? I can understand why a vendor would accept darkcoin or monero, but why would they want ETH? Are there even ETH mixers the vendors could use when cashing out? Can you buy eth from localbitcoins or only on coinbase?
Seems like alphabay is pumping and preparing for dump if you ask me. Now is a great time to sell eth, beat alphabay to the punch. Buy the rumor, sell the news.