Is there any way you could make sure a vendor is not LE? I'm hesitant to send an encrypted email with my actual name and address to a vendor when I go to place my first order.. it seems like the perfect way for LE to compile information on people who want drugs. Am I just expected to trust the vendor because there is a bunch of positive feedback? A bunch of one liners from "anon" all basically saying "FE for a great vendor" doesn't make me any less hesitant to just give up personal information. Seems like feedback wouldn't be all too hard to fake. I was thinking maybe to ask a vendor to email me a picture with the date written on a peice of paper next to the drugs I want. What do you guys think? I guess buying drugs on the darknet involves some blind trust
It is not cost effective at all for LE to send you drugs, wait for you to receive them in the mail, and then bust you. It would make no sense for LE to do this. They are more concerned with vendors and site admins.
If LE was to do this, why would taking a picture with the date and drugs mean anything? All they'd have to do would be to make a trip to the evidence room, grab some (insert drug here), and take a quick picture.
Buying drugs from the DarkNet involves informed trust, but never should it involve blind trust.