About 8 or 9 days ago I posted this post on this sub asking for opinions on what I perceived to be likely fake positive feedback on vendor Lifecare.
The feedback I received was pretty oddly mixed once again, with many people saying they had constantly received the best product from him, while others confirmed my doubts.
I would like to update and say that it has been about 9 (10?) days since I ordered and 8 days since the package was marked shipped. While Lifecare was very responsive at first, when asked to hand out a tracking number, as he stated he would after 5 days on his profile, he became completely unresponsive.
*EDIT: 9 days after marked shipped, he finally responded to me. Apparently he thinks it was likely the package was sent to the wrong address and will investigate. I definitely jumped to call him a scammer too early, when the real problem appears to be that he is swamped with a massive amount of orders *
First, the Grand Wizard would note that he has purchased H from Lifecare. (And just so /u/VendorBBMC doesn't get too worried about OpSec: it was sent to a drop run by one of our cabana boys and was then delivered to Latveria in a UN messenger bag after we sent it crosstown with the aid of one of Mike Tyson's carrier pigeons). It was serviceable #4, and his shipping time was reasonable. We've since heard he has had occasional shipping issues -- a problem for all vendors, but a REAL problem when you're dealing junk. However, the stories all seem to have happy endings with people doing their product. Instead of labeling the guy a "selective scammer" you might better call him an honest if sometimes disorganized vendor.
If you are really worried about shills do your research on multiple forums. There's an active heroin thread on DNM Avengers. The Grand Wizard can't guarantee there are no shills on there, but there are also many established accounts and many honest reviews of DNM heroin. For that matter, there are many longtime posters on here who are not shills.
It sounds like you went into this transaction worrying that the vendor was using "shill" accounts. Instead of trusting your gut and going with someone else, you went with LifeCare. Then when his communication proved less than stellar you decided he was a "selective scammer" who was out to rip you off from the beginning.
Speaking as a vendor, there is no such thing as "selective scammers." The cost of your inventory is or should be well less than 50% of your selling price. The pittance you might make by occasionally pocketing bitcoins and sending nothing pales next to the business you lose from people reading your negative feedback -- especially when you get a track record of accounts closed by market admins due to multiple complaints.
Nobody is deliberately robbing one customer in 3/5/10/whatever. It makes no economic sense. Lots of vendors grow too big too fast. They're not ready to handle a flood of business and so packs get missent or missed altogether. Whenever you hear complaints about "selective scammers" invariably they are either new vendors or top-tier vendors with a history of bad communications. Calling them "scammers" implies malice when the problem is really down to the Peter Principle -- a business axiom which suggests people more often wind up in a position for which they are almost qualified, with predictable results.