Vendors: Run your own STORE!!!!!!!!!

Why can't more vendors run there own stores like gammagoblin. Fuck these stupid markets like Alphabay.

Just IMO.


Comments


[23 Points] GuruMart:

Not so easy to code. If you have no knowledge on how to securely code a site then you will probably have to trust someone else to do it for you which isnt ideal. Look what happened to AKs site


[4 Points] None:

I would charge 30k to do a site like that, and I would charge 3-4k a month to maintain it. It isn't just a website, there is a lot of backend work, and a lot of people will get rekt by a hacker if there are ANY vulnerabilities and there will be and they will be found and exploited. Also it's illegal to do, so if you're going to pay someone you cant just find a developer to do it for you. Now you have to worry about operating an illegal site, which you'll need a server. The list keeps going. GG moves a lot of product, so it makes sense for him to do. For the average vendor that has 1-4 people it doesn't make a lot of sense.


[4 Points] drugsDNM:

This only works for large vendors that already have an established userbase and reputation. Nobody is going to order from a onion store unless it can be linked by a PGP key to reputable vendor from a market. Vendors would also be cutting themselves off from growth, an individual vendor's store would be much harder for a new DNM user to find and trust than an established market.


[3 Points] darkswizzly:

not many vendors have the needed reputation that such a thing would succeed...


[2 Points] MT_Merchant_Mangler:

OP has to be LE. Vendors might be good at OPSEC, but that doesn't mean they can securely code that shit. Not everybody is 1337 af.


[1 Points] None:

some vendors are not big enough for that. I'd rather they used their own email, like /u/2cbking


[1 Points] Polygon_Windows:

Or just wait for openbazaar 2.0


[1 Points] deep_touch:

You a dum dum


[1 Points] EatSheets:

Haaaduuuuuuuur'


[1 Points] MDMangle:

For most vendors, that would be a really, really bad idea. It would end up like this /r/DarkNetMarkets/comments/6i6wmc/omega_market_hacked_another_one_bites_the_dust/.

Or like this /r/DarkNetMarkets/comments/6eat2w/the_sanctuary_market_pwn3d_by_cipher0007/.

Unless of course you're using one of the decentralized marketplaces to host your own site and only accessing it via tails or whonix which forces everything to use tor.

Marketplaces where multisig is automatically preferred like Hansa are the immediate future of stable and popular marketplaces.

If you want to look deep into the future of the darknet, this is it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenBazaar

OpenBazaar is an open source project developing a protocol for e-commerce transactions in a fully decentralized marketplace. It uses the cryptocurrency bitcoin and was inspired by a hackathon project called DarkMarket.

/r/openbazaar

There are a number of projects like OpenBazaar but less well known.

Agoristhosting.com, which hosts https://freeross.org for free, will host openbazaar sites for a fee.


[1 Points] still12:

I suppose it could work, security would be an issue unless the vendor just puts a bitcoin address that people send to, and just uses email or basic forms. Then escrow would be out of the question though.


[1 Points] greenbarz:

Isn't Oasis doing this for all the vendors. Hahahahahah


[1 Points] Xerxero:

So every order is FE then. Great idea.


[1 Points] lennykerznowski:

No no fuck that I like it the way it is only good sources too many shitty vendors on markets


[0 Points] Ilivewithbastards:

I hear nice things about the gamma