EDIT: I was wrong. He's a grade-A Asshole! https://www.reddit.com/r/DarkNetMarkets/comments/7erkzk/vendor_review_coreytrevor/
This is our message log after TR got fucked:
Me:
Hi, I ordered 3.5g of 24k Gold from you on TR on Tuesday. You accepted the order well before 5pm (the cut off time listed on your vendor page), but when I'd checked at 7pm, the order hadn't been marked shipped. Did you ship? If not, do you intend to? I'm using the same account name, but cannot remember the order number. I can provided my address again (encrypted with your PGP) if required. Will also send this message to your Zion account.
CoreyTrevor:
I'm very sorry to say that TR have stolen just under 1btc from me, from tuesday last week onwards, all finalised orders were still appearing in my account as 'shipped' and 'not finalised'. I spoke at length to SamCulper from support who said his bosses were encouraging him to calm everyone down. I literally had your order in my hand ready to post then I received several msgs saying none of the orders were finalising. Apparently this has been going on since monday. dream market did the same thing to me about 5 weeks ago before i joined trade route. I only first started using the dark web 6 weeks ago and a week later i was a bloody vendor. I haven't received your money., I've had my money stolen but if this is a case of it will take food off your table and stop your kids from eating then I will sort something out. Please be honest, can u afford to lose 30 quid? Is it going to really cause a catastrophic situation for you?
The best I can offer is a 50% reship if you buy something from my store on Zion Market or Wall Street Market. WSM is no wallets so its safe, Zion market is multi sig only so its completely safe. I'm also opening a 'CoreyTrevor' invitation only vendor store for weed only on the normal internet. The offer of 50% is on the basis that you also join CGMC and recommend me as a vendor on the 'CoreyTrevor' post, CGMC is literally the best in the world, it's weed only and they are VERY strict about what vendors they let on there.
I only have 2 more invitation codes left (u get 3) for CGMC so if you dont want to or you arent going to do it then I'm very sorry and I cant help you in and wish u every best intention.
Me:
Hi mate, thanks for the reply. Not gonna hold you responsible for TR's shittiness, don't sweat it. The £30 won't damage me. Was hoping to have weed for my bday on Sat, but it's okay, I get it.
A bit confused about the rest of your message, but I'm interested! Could you explain further?
So fucking sorry from the bottom of my heart about this shit. I know it's not my fault, but I hate seeing people get taken advantage of. I hope you (and your team if you have one) can recover.
Thanks for your honesty and transparency. Hope I get some cash soon to make a purchase with you.
All the best.
P.S. Can I post your message on Reddit to let peeps know how this shit is affecting vendors/show how you've personally dealt with the situation?
So it would seem this definitely is an exit scam, since TR was keeping money from vendors. I just thought it was good to show a Vendor's perspective of the situation.
I would also like to add that CoreyTrevor has been super generous about this whole thing. He offered me a 50% reship simply for telling people he would do that for me - I can't afford it, but it was a solid thing for him to do. He also said that if the loss was going to be damaging he'd refund it.
Never have I ever seen a vendor act so generously in a time of crisis. My past experience is vendor's ignoring messages when shit like this happens. Highly recommend him too. Always had great (overweight) product and excellent comms.
EDIT
I misunderstood. He's literally reshipping 50% of my order at no cost. Super stoked I'm actually getting weed!
Where's my smokes?