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Tldr; tmg and team trust slandering Pelican in order to push them out of the bulk mdma game By now many of us have heard / read about the pelican issue on tmg. For those who haven't here's a rundown
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1: tmg suspended pelican from tmg claiming they were potentially compromised and had practiced poor opsec by opening the infamous beacon file.
2: Pelican responds promptly to the accusations through various avenues as they cannot defend themselves on the forum due to suspension. They claim that yes they did indeed open the file, but had their systems setup in such a way that even if the file called home (I don't believe it did) it would not expose their clearnet IP. Doing so they were able to disect the file and figure out how it worked, helping the community greatly.
3: tmg mod zaphod, amongst others start attacking Pelican on their behavior on and off market. Saying that they were practicing even more bad opsec by announcing having a preteen child's weight in mdma they are trying to move fast (they also announced moving to Os only during this same post, this is important.) Since when does tmg give a shit about stash bragging? I suppose the images of 250k trust tabs isnt exactly eniugh weight ti he considered poor opsec.... they even say that a real vendor wouldn't be as active on reddit as Peli is known to be ( but yet they promoted team trust reseller b00mtown from rising star to shining star status during the time he was most active on reddit
5: zaphod then personally insults a Transgender customer of Pelican who got a logo tattoo and after the fact received drugs as a thank you, not as payment. (I don't think he would encourage or ever request someone to mark their body with the bird, but it's awesome that they reward such loyalty when they have no requirement to do so.)
6: many more excuses pop up and any explanation is ignored by the mods.
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So why does this matter? Why should we care about Pelican getting dragged through the mud on tmg? Well here's my theory...
I wouldn't call it too farfetched that team trust who is known to either run tmg or co-op it with JOR, is getting their biggest rival to mdma sales out of the way for rhe return on their own mdma to the markets.
A week or two before the Pelican suspension, Trust announced on their "March lsd sale" thread on tmg that they would be beginning to roll out new lsd crystal and combo pack with the return of their mdma, with blotter and and solo mdma orders to be coming in the following weeks. Trust hasn't sold much mdma in the last few months or years as far as I know, leaving a very obvious gap that Pelican filled wonderfully. I've spoken with Peli and from what I can tell, they are the only current vendor with the capabilities to move amounts comparable to what Trust used to push.
It all seems too convenient timing for this to not be related. Pelican announces the pelipills are coming soon and that they are wanting to move into more of a bulk vendor role with mdma. Both of these scenarios hurt Trust's chances of making a big splash when they jump back in the pool.
I am not Pelican or related to him/her/they in anyway, just a person with quite a lot of time on their hands and a knack for spotting patterns and tracking a thought process across multiple threads. My spidey sense was tingling on this one and I had to take a deeper look. The collusion is too obvious to be anything but.
My Pelisenses are tingling.