Local Drop Shipping: A Viable Business Practice? Or Am I On (too) Much Drugs.

Hear me out on this one, it's batshit but it may work. I ain't doing it but super curious if we can have a discussion on it.

Simply put. Instead of people obtaining bitcoins and heading to the markets without the slightest clue, you do it all for them. I have multiple ways to get bitcoins with just a trip to walmart or your local gas station. So why not offer a service in which people do just that and you handle the rest. Most people have no clue how easy this can be, but the hardest part buy far is learning the software and finding a good vendor, simple shit that most of us already have figured out, so why not utilize it.

Wickr, Wire or what have you there are multiple to communicate with people without ever meeting them. The big issue is trust, you need a couple of trustees to get your business ignited, hell even make your self a wordpress site to create legitimacy. Those few people would probably be the biggest opsec flaw in the op.

It would work like this. They contact you for said substance, you already have a recommended vendor that in your opinion would give the best opsec to cost ratio, tack on your cut plus extra for fess and give them that. If they agree they purchase the predetermined method of btc acquisition, they send you that plus their address (encryption optional considering the people were dealing with and their opsec is of little relevance to me), process buy and wait for the arrival.

Terms and conditions would be quite simple and would mainly follow the vendors. Having a set of vendors you recommend would negate most non-arrival situations. If they want cheaper you can provide but do not guarantee any sort of arrival, quality or weight. If your op is up and running solid you may have some leeway for repurchases to keep rep up.

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Any others people can think of? To me it seems like a natural progression of the DNMs, why do it yourself when others can do it for you? I don't see why we can't have people managing the orders for a potion of a population, same as when you send buddy-o-tool so pick up on the groups behalf. Vendor gets his cash and still only has to deal with one person. Customer gets his drugs without having to go on the DNMs.

Teaching them the basics of opsec when it comes to package receiving will be the easy part and is up to them in the end. All we would provide is the service.

This is mainly for small personal orders, but larger ones could be accommodated but would require a very communicative and ready customer. The gas station methods wouldn't work but I have other (besides lbc) to get large amounts of cash into btc.

Thoughts?


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[7 Points] None:

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[2 Points] throwahooawayyfoe:

It works, I do it for a couple people whom I know I can trust. Just be extra cautious - don't advertise publicly (online or anywhere else) and only offer your services to people you know; loose lips sink fucking ships in this business. Make sure your customers know all the legal risks involved and coach them on what to do in case something goes wrong, and also tell them right up front that they may lose their money despite doing everything right and that they need to be willing to take that chance as well. Treat everything as if they were the one clicking the order button for themselves and you're just there looking over their shoulder to help (all my custies have their own separate market accounts and pgp keys that I create and keep control of for them). Keep your opsec tight, keep your customer base small, don't shit where you eat, continue to breathe free air.


[1 Points] CookyDough:

Something similar to this (except nationwide instead of local) is an idea I've entertained. I think it would be fairly easy to accomplish and make good money from. I have at least one good idea about where to market such services.

Simply put. Instead of people obtaining bitcoins and heading to the markets without the slightest clue, you do it all for them. I have multiple ways to get bitcoins with just a trip to walmart or your local gas station. So why not offer a service in which people do just that and you handle the rest. Most people have no clue how easy this can be, but the hardest part buy far is learning the software and finding a good vendor, simple shit that most of us already have figured out, so why not utilize it.

Good idea. Just that part alone without the drugs. There will be tons of money in that. Advertising and marketing such a service from a foreign country to the Chinese market would be ideal now since their access is limited by government diktat. Any kind of cultivation of business with western coin buyers would bring plenty of pay in the meantime.


[1 Points] CaptchaKing4Reviews:

This already happens dude.


[1 Points] TheLastCig:

Too many (much) drugs


[1 Points] Lyzergic:

I would say the safest operations are the ones that are done totally 'in house' ie people you already know, or can get to know. If I was a vendor there is NO WAY in HELL I'm shipping 2-5kg to someone who could disappear, and neither do I want to have to answer to someone who has something like that missing, but marked 'Delivered' I would hope a vendor does some real good watching before just willy nilly sending a shit load of gear to someone. I would also add that LE, yes believe it or not, really do consider if there is a family inside, how old the kids are, likeliness individual is armed and dangerous, and its much cheaper for them to send you a couple seizure letters before actually having to resort to ick down the door of a family who's 3 and 5 year olds are sleeping. What you see on T.V. is what sells, but more often with elaborate criminals that have multiyear case files and are much more sophisticated (take Bernie Madoff) for example, they simple knock on your door, ask for XX, 'Yeah. This is him.' respond with ' Hi we are Agents YY and ZZ with the FBI/DOJ/IRS joint cyber taskforce and we are going to need to ask you and everyone in the house to evacuate immediately we are going to enter your property to execute a search warrant, your electronic devices are to be held for analysis as ordered by .... and I will need to retain this from all individuals immediately. Now please place your hand behind your back you are being detained and charged with ...... (fraud?)"

Only time they will bust your door down if you have your headphones on and your music or WorldofWarcraft on way too loud, because it's fucking expensive to SWAT someone.

I'm pretty sure this is not new, JoR is one of the OLD 'Drop Shippers'

They are like brokers, they know the selling party find a buying party have the selling party send to the buying party. I would say this is how its done on the global transnational import/export to be done very safely. As in Vendor located in .... Thailand?.... who communicates with a network that has been set-up in USA? to ship. But everyone gets greedy, and when you depend on people and not pay them in line they will step out of line, so muscle could be important here.


[1 Points] DickCheeseKillah:

seesh stop making it so complicated. Stop being a huge puss and cop some weight than sell it.