I had placed a fairly substantial order on Abraxas with a new vendor offering a new product. It was in escrow of course. However, the vendor never even confirmed the order and the afternoon it was able to be cancelled is when the site went down. I don't even know whether it would be considered still in the escrow wallet or my account balance. Not that it matters though because admin controls it all. The point is that I was not treating my account there like a wallet and I had not FE'd so no lectures please.
I am a big fan of /u/deepdotweb - I have even contributed a piece to the site. I did not get involved in the DDW hate when it came out that he pulled Abraxas and suggested Alpha Bay. I respect the man too much to have believed there was anything involved other than poor judgement oh the Alpha Bay referral.
Today, I ran across this quote attributed to /u/deepdotweb - a poster had said they interpreted this that his removing them from sidebar was that he had not heard back.
"one communication i had with them last week or so, made the difference, don't see much point at arguig, wait another week and tell me if i was right or wrong. Anyway, hidden motives were involved."
This is the first time I read this particular quote from DDW. To ME, it sounds like the conversation he had with them led him to the belief that something nefarious had occurred and they would not be back. It does not read to me like he was saying "since I have not heard back I think they are gone".
Am I the only one that reads that DDW knows something that leads him to the conclusion there is no hope? To /u/deepdotweb - If that's the case, I think you owe the community a little bit of an explanation on what you are alluding to. If thet are truly gone then you have nothing to worry about as far as breaching confidentiality, which I know is important to you. I know you are a bit fed up with some redditors and I can't blame you. However, many of us have been supporters of you and ddw.com since day one. We have skin in this game that we will bo OK with kissing goodbye if we simply had any explanation beyond people's speculation that would help make some sense of this. We can all agree this was far from the typical exit scam because they did not get shit compared to what they could have even by waiting another 48 hours....
Thanks DDW
MO_drugs... more like NO_drugs am I right..