I think its time to offer a little positive recognition where it is due: The Mods here have actually been quite fair. The topic I posted yesterday about withdrawl issues was deleted by me, not mods.

I dont visit here very often, except to inform the community with issues related to DNM's, but when I do I almost always see people with pitchforks out for the mods accusing them of being unfair, censoring subjects and the like.

But yesterday my thread quickly rose to the top and despite the implications of a possible exit scam, it was not censored and the opposite happened: Trappy_Pandora helped quickly resolve the isssue, and did not censor anything.

In the case of withdrawl issues on AlphaBay yesterday, while it looked like a market wide issue, it ended up being something specific to my situation. I've disclosed full details here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/DarkNetMarkets/comments/3sziye/ugreenmachine_please_respond/cx1w6bn?context=3

I think the reason for my withdrawls being halted was very fair, and was handled with professionalism by the AlphaBay admin. When such accusations are made, it is important that AB evaluate them to protect the community members. While my reputation is clean, and has been so for years, I understand that there are a lot of very shady vendors out there who do some pretty questionable things. Its good we have a system in place that evaluates these actions and mediates disputes. In my case, the dispute was mediated much faster than I expected and after I provided all the evidence the accusation was considered unfounded and my reputation has been restored. Withdrawls were immediately enabled with the dispute ended.

I still have 100% positive feedback on AlphaBay thanks to a fair administration. Its pretty tough to get negative feedback reversed on markets guys. I want everyone to know that. The system works the way it is intended. Usually even with full proof most markets will do nothing about your feedback, which is not a good thing to honest vendors who have to deal with scammers who use that system as a tool for extortion.


Comments


[11 Points] zx88crackingforum:

This thread won't please the pitch forkers.


[6 Points] octomarvel:

Good move by you for accepting the liability, but beware...they're gonna accuse you of accepting bribes next, lol.

=)


[2 Points] DnmAvenger:

Cool. Thanks for this update. There are those that are going to say this is all just part of an ever growing conspiracy theory to take all of our BTC. I think this was a knee jerk reaction to not being able to withdraw funds that ran wild. Good for you on coming back to straighten out the story. AB has been good to me, but appointing trappy as anything to do with that market was a huge mistake in my opinion. He is just so damn shilly.


[2 Points] None:

good on you for setting it straight


[2 Points] yalldontknowjack:

I got my popcorn and I am sharpening my pitchfork


[1 Points] PM_ME_YOUR_DRUG_PICS:

Everyone here is in "better safe than sorry" mode. No matter what happens now I guarantee 25% of people who would've used Alphabay before all this stuff happened won't anymore.

After two years of doing almost exclusive escrow deals, I see why people are more comfortable doing direct deals.

Where the fuck is Agora when you need her?


[1 Points] druggieslut:

So you think its OK to freeze accounts without even fucking telling the person, and take their bitcoin hostage, without you know, any reason to think they scammed anyone??


[1 Points] druggieslut:

No one said mods did it. We said you were extorted into it by putinbay


[1 Points] DHLMarket:

People should really be using a different marketplace. Given the information that was brought to light about AB staff, they don't deserve the popularity.

I wish Nucleus was less shady.

Agora will always be my number one <3


[1 Points] El_Bhapo:

Best.Exit.Scam.Ever


[0 Points] None:

I hope alphabay gave you another bonus for making this post. I have good reason to believe alphabay has been hacked, and most coins lost. I don't have time right now to read the whole other thread, but I saw only small BTC withdrawals were going through, and I have a very specific question: has anyone been able to withdraw more than 1.0 bitcoin?

Thanks


[0 Points] C4000c:

mods here are horrible


[0 Points] None:

Green machine I've purchased from you ever since your starting days on agora and you've always been the shit. thanks m8


[0 Points] None:

How do we know you weren't threatened or extorted into making this thread in order to get your funds and keep your vendor account? We have no way of knowing that, because everything was done secretly and then /u/alphabaysupport just says "the issue has been resolved". Mafia hitmen use that exact same phrase after they silence or otherwise coerce someone into doing something. That's the point of extortion....we have no way of knowing if you are telling the truth or have been bribed or threatened because you would be too afraid to tell us. This is why no one should be doing business on a site run by admitted thieves who practice mafia tactics. You are basically doing business with an organized crime syndicate that has shown twice now that they are not above extortion, in addition all the other shady things they do like completely inventing listings and vendors that don't exist to seem like a bigger market than they really are. Everything you say about the matter is suspect because we don't know if you are being manipulating into saying these things now because of how AlphaBay handled the matter.

Are you seriously going to continue to vend on that market after they did this to you? Did you ask them why they froze your withdrawls without telling you but did not freeze your vendor account and then waited for you to complain about it before telling you about it? Nothing about this makes sense and it still smells fishy as hell. Every day AlphaBay makes themselves look shadier and shadier, you'd have to be crazy to do business on that site, vendors and buyers alike.


[-1 Points] certifiedplug556:

i really think you need to relax and smoke some of that weed you sell. I remember you pretty much spazzed out on me for asking a question. whether or not the answer was on the page your response was extremely immature. glad you got everything settled though