So, I don't know a whole lot about what goes into running a market or into investigating one, but I find it a very fascinating subject and would love to learn more about what goes into both sides. My question is though, after a market exits, what does LE do?
I assume that they are, to an extent, running investigations on every major market, no? They probably don't have the resources to follow every personal vendor shop, but there aren't THAT many major markets. I mean, if you go off the Superlist, you have CGMC, Tochka, Zion and Libertas, and then there's Dream and Wall St, both of which aren't on the list, with Dream being the largest out of all them. So Dream undoubtedly has an active investigation and I would guess the others do, maybe to a lesser extent. But what happens if Dream were to exit?
Does LE continue to investigate them? If so, what exactly would there be left to work off of?
My thinking is kind of split both ways, on one hand, it's clearly not easy for them to find the people who run these markets, and during the time of these investigations they are making MILLIONS of dollars, if they just let these people get away with exit scamming, they are basically encouraging people to run these massive drug markets, and just dip out before getting caught, becoming Millionaires with relative ease. On the other hand, is it really worth it for LE to continue to try and follow whatever scraps are left when they could be diverting those resources to other investigations?
Maybe. Who knows? My guess is that they couldn't care less about people being ripped-off, and would rather spend the time & resources on those whose hands they can catch in the cookie jar (active markets) in order to get those big, headline-grabbing 'wins.'