Obviously being a dealer is not the hardest thing to figure out. However, I'm just curious how vendors out there learned everything as far as stealth, shipping, and most importantly security.
It's taboo to discuss shipping methods so how do you know how to be safe when it comes to shipping and all that?
Thanks!
I used to be a Darknet vendor way before TOR and SR where around. Grew up into the carding community and spend a good decade making money in there. Usually selling carded game cards or accounts but also carded electronics to drops every week. What I learned there in terms of security and dealing with customers pretty much are the fundamentals of how I work as a vendor today.
When carding became harder and the risk involved was increased to the point where I stopped feeling comfortable about going on I tried to find some other ways to make money. I found some clearnet carding site which allowed the sale of drugs and I was in. I sold weed and hash for a year before I first learned about TOR and SR. Back then I didn't even have a vac machine when I started. Just would wrap it in plastic and go around it a gazillion times with ducttape. Surprisingly none of my packages ever where lost, but through my customers complaints and seeing how other vendors did it I learned how to maximize stealth pretty fast.
Then a lot of people on that forum got busted, every month there was a bigger bust and when you still where around after that bust you became bigger and bigger yourself, which was the scary part. Once again the risk involved became to big and I stopped vending.
Then a year later I found out Silkroad was still going strong so I became a vendor and learned even more there. I was already at the top of the learning curve at that point but you keep learning new stuff with every few dozen orders you send out. Now everything really just comes as second nature. It also helps that I worked in a marketing related field for a long time, so getting my name out, knowing how to market both myself and my product did give me an edge over the vendors that started around the same time as I did.