Darknet markets have huge incentive to take money and run. Individual vendors build trust with customers and have far less incentive to take money and run. Why don't vendors run their e-commerce .onion sites?
[GeneralQuestions] Individual vendor sites
Darknet markets have huge incentive to take money and run. Individual vendors build trust with customers and have far less incentive to take money and run. Why don't vendors run their e-commerce .onion sites?
[7 Points] None:
[5 Points] dnmsafety:
Buttonwood, a SR2 weed vendor, tried this around 1 year ago. His personal market lasted less than a month before the feds found him and busted him. Apparently his market was full of OPSEC holes.
[1 Points] loveisrealnfa:
Laziness?
[1 Points] MLP_is_my_OPSEC:
Some do.
[1 Points] Kazaa99:
The open source webshops don't come with easy crypto currency integration. Most of them have a module to a third-part bitcoin site doing payments. So not that easy to use.
Also setting up a .onion server isn't that easy so any vendor could do it :/
[1 Points] None:
Outsourcing your code to an outside developer is a really bad idea and writing it yourself is almost as bad unless you absolutely have the skills required which most vendors do not.
So fear of a malicious contracted developer and/or fear of fucking up if they tried it themselves is why these are not more common.
[1 Points] Theeconomist1:
Well I suspect it would be hard to do unless you had a loyal and established customer base. Plus the overhead of running a market. Whether it's one vendor or a hundred there's certain overhead that comes with running a market - not stuff like scalability costs but the various skill sets needed to build and run a market.
It's same as any normal seller. Why don't etsy sellers just establish there own sites? Same problems but even less barriers since fucking up a knitting product site won't cost you your freedom.
Don't get me wrong it can be done and has. Didn't bungee have his own site? I'd just think you need to get to a certain size before it makes it worthwhile.
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