After opening GWL EIC's virtual doors today the Grand Wizard is very, very impressed with East India Company. The layout is clean and easy to use and the site loads quickly. The support team has been fantastic in their communications and very helpful. And best of all, they have the best implementation of multisig we've yet encountered. We've had two sales in the first 24 hours (with only a fraction of our inventory listed) from multisig virgins: they had no problem setting up a transaction and sending their funds to a 2-of-3 address thanks to EIC's very helpful instructions.
So far this may well be the most promising start-up we have had to date. Of course things can change in an instant on the Darknet, but East India Company appears to be doing all the right things and we're looking forward to a long and prosperous business relationship.
I can't wait til more users realize it. It's got a beautiful and uncluttered interface, solid security, an on-market chat which is nice and the support responds, an actually responsive support ticket team, many mirror URLs, proper multi-sig but also regular escrow, they're really in a good spot once more people take a look.
Plus, the vendor fee is only 0.2BTC (in exchange for being a fee, nonrefundable, and I think market commission is fairly high and it works on a level system where it gets progressively lower).
I'd certainly urge more to give them a chance.