Recommended by a friend to ME and kind of new in this bizz I started vending on ME about a month ago. Made 56 completed orders and no no shows in one month. Had over 12 btc in escrow and was gonna use that to expand my business. It is too early to tell but I could be fucked in the ass bigtime :( Most of my big orders came in the last week and are all in escrow. Every single order has been sent and I might have dick to show for it.
People were asking me for DD but the noob that I was said no because I liked the safety of a market specially cuz I have to give my email and wallet and am not pro enough. Actually love ME and the admins and pray they dont fuck me.
Anybody have any tips to start up for myself safely? I am kind of baffled by the whole thing. I am also looking for my customers because I was only on ME.
When a marketplace sinks, you swim to another. You set up shop, and that first day you get emails as your customers wash up on the same beach.
A good way to get customers to do direct deals is to buy a used android mobile phone and a pre-pay sim. Download "surespot" encrypted messenger and "Mycelium wallet", both free from google play store.
Keep PGP as an option if you want to. Or ditch it. Tell customers on your profile they can get their details to you in plain text, in a quickforget note set to expire in 2 days / 2 views, or they can send you a surespot ID.
When you receive the order, in the field for shipping details it says "drugmonkey666 surespot street"
You send a friend request in surespot to drugmonkey666. they accept, and send you the shipping details. when the envelope is addressed, you delete their details from both phones, and write "drugmonkey666 1g" on the peel-off strip of the padded envelope. when you stealth-up the gram and seal the envelope, the strip is your reminder to click "shipped" when you get home from the mailbox.
When they get their drugs, they send you a message letting you know, and you have a chat by encrypted message. next time they order, they surespot you at the same time and say "I just ordered 1g from you on Abraxas. Here are my shipping details"
Eventually, they don't bother with abraxas. "hello mate? do you have any in stock? I want to order a gram"
"0.26 btc to
(bitcoin wallet address copied to the clipboard from mycelium bitcoin wallet, on a separate line)
"Sent"
"bitcoin payment received Sir. thank you"
"order posted"
(encrypted photo of the vendor's hand, an envelope addressed to the customer, and the slot of a mailbox)
"Thanks mate. I got my order this morning. have a good weekend"
later that day, the customer deletes his name and address from both phones.
THAT is how you do a DD. Easy peasy. The key to longevity is repeat business. Your customers become pen-pals, you know what music they like from sending youtube links when you're high at 3AM saturday.
If business is a little quiet, send all your contacts a link just to remind them of you
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Echt8Yl_OiQ