Hi All,
Firstly just to get it out the way for those who will ask for an update the South African post office is still on strike. Once its over were launching a new strain and everyone that experienced Terrible delivery times will get to be our testers, I know its not much but its all we can do at the moment and its amazing bud(seriously).
Anyway im posting to all the vendors out there today. Im sure most of you guys have noticed a serious influx of scamming users, now I accept that dealing with this is all part and parcel of vending but I think we need to start looking at putting together some global information to help eachother out. Basically I get atleast one scammmer a day trying his/her luck for a refund/reship/loan and pretty much anything I might be willing to let go of. For all the customers reading this vendors deal with ALOT of messages, I myself atleast try to reply to all of them which can literally take an entire afternoon (Whole day if agora is slow) and take special care to look into all queries especially since alot of messages can get lost in translation to english, everytime one of these dickheads tries his luck I literaly log onto each and every market to check the history and then politely ask the said dickhead what username he ordered with and thats that- but this takes atleast 15-20 min of time away from my legit customers with serious enquiries.
When Cannabis Road shut down we had +-18 orders which were all shipped. In total I recieved over 60 refund/reship requests - only about 5 of which belonged to actual customers, the problem here is all vendors lost thier order history which meant I literally had to basically interogate all of them including my own customers to work out which were real! This alone makes me sick if you wanted a dealer to ask you 50 trick questions you may aswell score on the street. I love the fact that the Darknet has provided the opportunity to have an open and honest market place for both vendors and customers and there are alot of great people contributing to making this possible, but these guys literally threaten the entire relationship between vendor and client, I think there are way more scamming user accounts now than vendor accounts since they are free and customers (rightly so) are much more weary of supporting new vendors.There are hundreds of posts like is vendor xxx legit?, Atleast one person verifies me a month to prevent themselves from being scammed, there is even a vendor blacklist, but very few records of BS users, hot delivery addresses etc.
I get caught by them very rarley and for a small amount. Ealier I sent one of them 0.05Btc on agora since a quick search of the username against reddit yielded no results,I often take these gambles and they have brought me alot of business from the 1 in 5 that are seriously just short of being able to place a better order. It wont put me out of business but it pisses me off because they literally steal from real customers and other people that could really use it. 0.05BTC can feed a family of 5 in SA for two weeks. But worst of all they force me to assume that everyone of my happy stoned customers is scamming should something be a little off and sadly I have to initially handle them as such, Not only is this a shit way to handle the core of your business they cause your customers to question your motif / morals. This is an amazing anonomous world built on trust held together by the best judge of a persons character - thier word, but these wankers litterally go around sabbotaging the relationship.
A bit later I logged onto agoras forum and searched his name (adabdoesme) and was shocked saw that he has been a known scammer/hustler for months!!! How does this account still exist? I think we need a [customer complaint] tag along with a userblack list that all vendors can submit to and vote on to atleast try to combat it a little. There are also alot of reship scamers - customers who order with the intention of claiming it was not recieved and alot of these go unposted and are ignored by the vendor instead of becoming public knowledge to warn everyone.
Even though I do not keep info and am strictly against sharing personel info I wish someone still had his home address since some of the scammers were probably stupid enough to use the account to buy drugs. Everyone who recognised or was caught by the scammer could verify the accounts legitimacy and the markets users could have a go at burning a few of these bitches to make a example out them. All this scamming gives vendors a bad name and is really unfair on a few since had this dude been a vendor even a tiny shitty one and tried the same thing he would have been banned and burned on the stake on this forum but just because now they are scamming from customer accounts its ok to leave them?
Just wondering if anyone else thinks this isn't getting enough heat?
Sunny
Rule #1: you cannot Doxx anyone ever. A list of addresses is exactly that