I love the history of the DNMs. It's already been four years since they took SR down, which is a typical college career. There are people who consider themselves "old-timers" who never even visited SR and the funny thing is, is that they still are old timers because it happened so long ago.
I also love imagining the secret lives of vendors. Like, do the big vendors have sweatshops filled with nearly naked women bagging up product all day and big black dudes with shotguns guarding the doors? Or is it a bunch of fucking nerds buying from big sellers and reselling, or maybe even naked nerds trapped in a cartel safehouse doing the online vending for the jefes?
There have been some legendary vendors, and many not so legendary who were still very cool and/or total characters. Many left the game, got arrested, whatever....
Who were your favorite vendors, and why did you like them? and are they still around? If not, you know what happened to them? Any interesting stories about old vendors?
I wanna trip down memory lane, and seeing really big names like Tony76, NOD, etc, give me a heavy dose of the feels. I wanna remember the little guys.
I loved this vendor named Pharmacare on SR1 because he mostly sold safe injection kits and withdrawal aids. I was new to the scene and thought it was so cool that this guy was going on the darknet to sell things to help people. He also sold legit opium, which I bought and enjoyed (it just tickled my appetite though so I had to move on to real opiates).
I also loved every single legit heroin vendor on blackbank. Caliclaire, alexsosa, Panda Express, dragoncove...in addition to the enormous heroin review thread, it was a junkies dream with all these top notch vendors competing to sell the best dope. It felt like a family, albeit a shady, heroin addicted one that you couldn't truly trust.
Long live blackbank =(
Other long gone vendors I remember: Reblzrox (sold roxys and sold me some, and shipped them out, two days before the seizure. Never saw him again and assume he lost a buttload of coin he couldn't recover from cuz he was a small time vendor) Order of the Phoenix (sold me my first trips, great stuff although I seem to remember something weird happening with him...) and of course that crazy motherfucker DoD (someone please remind me of all his other aliases...the Silk Road subreddit was nonstop solid gold).
I miss myself