So... Pandora is shitting itself. Where now?

The forums are literally exploding with people angrily denouncing the support staff and calling scam. I can't even log in. Should I consider my $80 lost and just start browsing somewhere else? I'll keep an eye on it for the next few days, I guess. Maybe I'll get lucky and the staff will just turn out to have been insanely incompetent at public relations...

Fuck, I miss the stability of SR1. What's a good market to head towards now?


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[15 Points] BTVA:

Members of the British Tor Vendors Association seem to be favouring Agora Marketplace at the moment, simply due to its association with bitcoin fog. Its their money laundering bitcoin tumbler of choice, with prompt admins.

Silk Road 1 was good because they banned vendors at the drop of a hat, so scammers didn't get far and confidence was high. The only thing SR2 inherited was it's terrible windows 95 interface, the interest of the FBI, and (this week) the page timeouts. Forget ever receiving a reply from support. They're all on bail,with a couple fighting fires in the forum. Nobody in their right mind wants THAT job. wallets take days, and sometimes have negative balances. Today,people are lucky if they can even login. "We will pre fail"

SheepMarketplace was a well-designed interface. Shame it was a scam, because it was a nice one. It had an "order accepted" button and a "shipping" button for vendors. SR2 has that stupid "shipped" (past tense) button only, which misleads customers who think "I haven't got it! Shipped? Scam!"

They email the vendor, who can't login to answer because its down for "scheduled" maintenance that was scheduled in their minds a minute earlier. They email support, but support is an empty room with a phone that is always ringing, signs of a struggle,and police tape.

So the customer comes on here and cries "scam". The boss of the Medelin cartel reads it, splutters on his cornflakes, and orders a couple of columbians to visit the customer's address (which he gave to them), with a petrol chainsaw and duct tape.


[10 Points] gwern:

I can log in without a problem.


[7 Points] NGvo57fGXgLg4QbxR4hu:

I think you're being overly paranoid and impatient.

Everything appears to be working just fine.

These people on the forums you speak of sound like either impatient drug addicts, or shills intentionally trying to destabilize the market and diminish peoples confidence.

Being vigilant against scams and markets shutting down is totally a good thing, but c'mon....


[4 Points] SRThrowaway113:

Forum post like 12 hours ago said they were getting DDoSed and really high traffic.. It's been up for me for a while.


[5 Points] None:

Ive not had any issues, I can log in just fine, browse just fine, and purchase just fine.


[2 Points] shitstormy:

uh, hate to break it to you but as long as you got to trust some stranger with all ur funds youre gonna get stolen.

only site that isnt like that is TMP.

also fyi agora (the next in line so to speak) is run by bitcoinfog. think about that for a moment, if you tumble through bitcoinfog and they also see your activities on their darknet site, then it isnt a stretch that they can deanonymize you. or le can do it if they get located anytime in the future. or it could just be one big le honeypot, would be a pretty smart move for le to open a laundry, hell secret service sold fake id's for a long time in order to catch criminals.


[3 Points] darkmarkethrowaway:

i vote agora as a good market but there needs to be more than one. BMR should be back soon so just sit tight and chillax my brother.


[2 Points] High_Roller_:

My vote is for SR 2.0 or if you really want to wait, BMR


[3 Points] XANAX2USA:

Agora! http://agorabasakxmewww.onion/vendor/XANAX2USA#


[1 Points] drugslist:

Please consider checking out our new site-- there is a link on the sidebar.

We are just starting out, but have excellent security and have some well-known vendors signing up.

We are about to launch our multi-sig escrow so as to give buyers and sellers more peace of mind.


[2 Points] Gabralkhan:

I personnally think it is perhaps a little early for that.

The problems of Pandora support is something that repeatedly come in the news i must say, you are not alone to report problems.

The markets itself seems to continue to work so i hope they will correct that.

From what i know SR 2.0 support is also kind of very busy but they seem to manage that better.

TMP sounds promising, of course the I2P address make it a little different but it seems thay have also now a Tor Portal so it might be a good thing to look there. There are no bad things on them for the moment, and they are developing a lot of new features for their market that sound interesting.

I heard good things about BSM support, i can't confirm that myself but they seem little and very committed to their support work, perhaps worth a try, they are not so big for the moment but that sounds promising.

I will put White Rabbit in the same situation, a small market for the moment so owners put a lot of efforts on support to make it run well.

Agora seems to have a great success also, i don't know if there are still using reference codes, but if you want to try them you will need one, that is maybe another added step to browse it, but the links are not hard to find, you will find plenty here on reddit i think.