This post may get some flak, but the garden has truly lost its magic over the past 1 year. It is no longer the place it used to be - I know, because I have been there longer than some of the newbies who have shilled and trolled hard too to get to a 500 post count.
Around last year and the year before that, you could genuinely meet wonderful people from the DNM scene on the gardens, people who if you meet in real life you would hit it off in an instant. All of those old users have disapeared, one by one - to be replaced, alarmingly, by re-sellers of JoR and TT, along with their innumerable countless shill accounts.
Just today, one of their so called "Shining star" vendors SCI-DMT (A JoR resell-er) made an exit scam with an estimated 30-50 BTC stolen from users. Just last week, another scammer called Samantha made away with several user's money pretending to offer LSD Crystal for cheap prices. This has to be the dumbest scam ever - Yet, you will not believe the number of people over there who fell for this scam. Some dude even gave this Samantha person $890 even though she did not even have any prior feedback, vending history or market account whatsoever. I am really wondering if money grows on trees for these people. Then there was Bear's choice who scammed over $10000 via direct deals. These are just scams off the top of the head, look closely there are dozens more.
I am not even going to talk in detail about the Indian shit show over there. I have lost track of the number of posts of these elitist Indian pricks who are crying out after getting scammed there over the last month. I read some estimate that these indians have plundered over $3000 on TMG alone.
So coming to my point, I am not trying to shame TMG, just going to put it here that it is no longer the "Majestic" place it once was. Today it is merely a shill and scam garden, devoted to re sellers of JoR and TT. Anyone else with a different product is getting thrown out without even a fair chance to vend. At the other end of the spectrum, half of JoR and TT re-sellers have turned out to be nothing more than scams.
I think it is a good time to consider the shambolic state of the market there. Time and again, they have let shit brewers go unchecked and make a scene there. There are dudes like coldcuts/axisfromspace/xtc-lsd etc. who are nothing but mere trolls; but on TMG they occupy (or used to, before they got belatedly banned ) some sort of an imaginary high pedestal - butting their heads in things that dont even concern them, just to increase their post counts.
One of the best vendors I have ever ordered from on DNMs, Albion - A legendary star vendor - is no longer actively vending over there. JoR has priced his minimums out of everyone's reach. Minimum order of 500g MDMA with no reviews, no EC tests? Yeah, blow me. Plus no one has forgotten the fiasco with his so called 99.9% pure xtal giving a 80% pure result when tested by EC. JoR and his shills (called Clergy) tried every possible trick to discredit EC, talked crap all day long about chemical structure but still weren't able to justify the poor purity. Over time, the spotlight on the result just faded, and the smart business man that JoR is, raised his Xtal minimums buys from 50/100mg to a whole 1g - which puts it out of the reach of 99% of us - and nobody can send anything further for testing. And also supposedly discontinued the #1/#5 - whats the purity of the new #6/#12, it is anyone's wild guess. It is still advertised as 99.9% I guess.
GG's products are hit and miss - there are more reviews for his underdosed tabs than his accurately dosed tabs, if you ask me. TT still seems on song, but good luck to anyone who can order personal/small time resale amounts of TT himself without going through a re-seller and getting scammed in the process. There are still a few legit vendors out there - these are vendors who have earned their reputation through markets (eg. Noumena) but the quality of users and vendors has relatively dwindled over the last year.
It is come to a point where at the moment, TMG is merely a paradise for trolls, shit posters and scammers. I would strongly advice everyone to demand escrow from all these vendors if you don't want to blow up your hard earned money in smoke.
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