I had about 3-4K worth of orders on HANSA when the site shut down that I'm never going to send out. Because I'm never going to see a penny of that money. It was all in escrow. All of those people lost their money.
A few weeks ago, I had about 3-4K worth of orders on Alphabay when the site shut down. But every single one of those packs has been delivered to the person who ordered it, because all of my listings were FE and I got paid.
Everyone on HANSA knew that I preferred FE and Direct Deals, but that hasn't stopped them from sending me angry private messages.
This situation is EXACTLY why I support FE and Direct Deals being an option on the markets alongside multisig/escrow, even though I get fucking crucified every time I bring it up.
I made a post about this the day before HANSA got seized and everyone shot me down, being very very rude, calling me names, saying I just supported the FE option so that I could scam people, etc. etc. You didn't know it was me, though, because I made the post with a throwaway.
Not only was my post removed, I was literally BANNED. Just for sharing this opinion.
Maybe now that HANSA has been taken down too, we can have a more civil conversation about it. I know that me and my customers weren't the only ones affected.
There IS a place for FE alongside multisig, for people who trust their vendor more than the markets, so that they don't lose everything in situations like this where the markets are taken down.
For every vendor like you, there's also another one who is in a little bit of a trouble and can't wait to ramp up sales via FE to exit scam.
If only everyone were honest eh?
Off the top of my head I can think of probably 10 big name vendors who have disappeared and/or exit scammed with the help of a lot of DD/FE in the last year alone- some of whom most of the sub would have had no problem FE'ing for (such as MrSaturn).