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Market => Rumor mill => Topic started by: flwrchlds9 on June 27, 2013, 02:16 am
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The fuck are they smoking!? They are doing an all out Social Media ad Blitz. :o :o
Kicking the bee hive. Stupid shit. SR will never do this we hope??
**CLEARNET** http://www.theverge.com/2013/6/26/4467136/illegal-online-drug-bazaar-begins-massive-advertising-push-atlantis-silk-road
SR is of course mentioned also.
If you read comments after article you see why making so public is such bad idea. clueless people and being offer clueless advice in comments.
This is *VERY BAD IDEA*. >:(
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Are there any links to verify this? That's crazy, if it's indeed the owners/operators of the site advertising like that I would assume it is ran by LE...because that is retarded
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Are there any links to verify this? That's crazy, if it's indeed the owners/operators of the site advertising like that I would assume it is ran by LE...because that is retarded
*** CLEARNET WARNING ***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFwPjUpv-9M
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That is terrifying. :o
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Interesting ad....it's like a fortune 500 company made that but it's pretty scary that they're advertising on youtube
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Be sure that youtube video will be played as morning video at Monday DEA meetings. Dont kick bees nest in public square.
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I face palmed so hard.
W.T.F. ATLANTIS YOU PIECE OF SHIT FUCKIN' FUCKER BLUMPKIN BITCH.
Ugh....I need a drink. I couldn't even get through half of the video.
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How is ANYONE surprised by this? ??? They made it 100% clear weeks ago that they were hiring a marketer to do THIS. They stated it plain and clear.
Hi all. Atlantis Marketplace admin here. At the moment we're throwing around the possibility of hiring someone who is good at SEO/marketing services on the web. This would include things like (off the top of my head):
Blog posts
Backlinks
Youtube videos
Social media
This wouldn't be your normal job offer, however if you're looking to help the Atlantis marketplace grow, Litecoin grow, and would be willing to be paid in Litecoins, let us know in this thread or via message on this site.
We think that this is a good chance for someone to get in early and be apart of our team. Naturally further down the track the entry requirements will be larger -- so we believe this to be an exciting opportunity to take advantage of.
Basically you could consider yourself an investor, however you would be investing skills and not money. Your payment will scale with our growth. So far we've seen a tremendous amount of interest and we've only been live for a few days. We can already tell that Atlantis has a very bright future ahead of it.
So let us know via PM or in this thread if you're interested, and list your experience and what you can do for us, and we will go from there.
Just a side note, this entire process will be kept entirely anonymous, so don't feel like you will need to disclose any of your personal information. As you can already imagine, we are huge advocates of the anonymous Tor movement.
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Well would it not be better for Atlantis to take all the heat? Be the fallguy?
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Don't let LE find out the SR site address! Because they don't know it!!!!
Wait... hold on...
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I interviewed the guy who made the videos last week, but never got it written up. One funny thing though:
Q: Are you a user of any of the black markets?
A: Yes I use SR some to buy small quantities of Marijuana
:D Way to talk up your new employers
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It's all good that Atlantis is setting itself up for failure but dragging SR's name down with it can't be good. Then again, SR doesn't seem to be...how you say...as retarded as Atlantis is. So you gotta keep the faith alive I suppose.
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Lol @ I'm a CEO of a black market AMA thread. There's fuckin' vendors on here that have more volume than that entire site. And Atlantis is a full on sell-out before it's even cool. Fuck you Atlantis.
Uber fucking pretentious for a site with no vendors.
Sending vendors invite codes in PM's on SR.
Shameless.
Reckless, unwanted attention to the entire scene to attract dumb noobs to your site. God damn cocksuckers.
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In response to the post, very retarded indeed.
On another note, we need a bitcoin 'ebay/amazon' for legal stuff and foreign trade/wholesale. I've already used coinexchange i think it was to buy everyday stuff from sites now accepting BTC thru them.
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WTF?!
Atlantis, now you deserve to die.
Peace
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OMG ! :o
this is uber stupid
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Loled at the video :D I guess that was no smart idea :D
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=/ NOT KEWL
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In a sense I'm kind of surprised G00*gle didn't take that video down, I mean they're pretty much in bed with the government anyway. Maybe they're waiting for folks to post comments like 'oh shiz this is the spot I just picked up 2 kilos delivered right to my door' or something.
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I would think regardless of advertising via YouTube or social media that LE already knows their existence and cracking down on them would be secondary to the much more known Silkroad.
I think advertising in public forums is probably not a terrible decision on their part, upside is they get more people using their site, downside - they may get people they don't want using their site.
If i was a competing business I would look at silk road and think
1. They are well known
2. They have been widely written about by national and international news agencies
3. They still exist
4. Lets advertise
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I predict a shit storm, it will probably increase traffic to SR too.
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I would think regardless of advertising via YouTube or social media that LE already knows their existence
This is said many times here. YES LE KNOWS, that is NOT point here. If you read comments below article you see the type of person that better not be into this community and more people get aware then should be. Problem go from outside don worry about it and be front center WTF we gon do now!?
when on local news and parents see OMG OMG the kidddddssss are gonna DIE... then they call political person and they say OMG OMG did not know this have to stop NOW because kidddddsss will DIE!!!
hahaha. understand? ;D
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Hmmm.. Last I heard of Atlantis it was LOST!
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Oops, accidentally deleted a post instead of replying to it. It went like this:
Quote from OzFreelancer: Quote from: flwrchlds9 on Today at 07:28 am when on local news and parents see OMG OMG the kidddddssss are gonna DIE... then they call political person and they say OMG OMG did not know this have to stop NOW because kidddddsss will DIE!!!
+1 for putting the truth so eloquently and giving me a laugh :D
EDIT: And, not-so-funny, here we have it. In an article about Atlantis:
Silk Road is pushing more than ten thousand products and services, including forged ID cards, stolen credit cards, guns, explosives, prostitution, assassinations, child pornography, gold bars, and – of course – lots and lots of heavy-duty drugs.
http://thediplomat.com/tech-biz/2013/06/27/deep-web-drug-peddling-site-atlantis-begins-advertising-push/
Sometimes I understand why you guys hate my profession :(
I wrote a comment on the offending article and received the following reply by email:
Good morning Eileen,
Thank you for the comment on the piece I wrote yesterday. It included a misplaced reference to a Business Insider story that I will fix:
http://www.businessinsider.com/tor-silk-road-deep-web-2013-3?op=1
I misread the bullet points as being subdivisions of Silk Road, not separate entities.
The story will be changed to reflect this. I apologize for the error -- I had to rely on outside stories about what is available there since I cannot access SR from work.
Have a nice day and happy Friday (from Tokyo).
Kind regards,
Jeff
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Oops, accidentally deleted a post instead of replying to it. It went like this:
Quote from OzFreelancer: Quote from: flwrchlds9 on Today at 07:28 am when on local news and parents see OMG OMG the kidddddssss are gonna DIE... then they call political person and they say OMG OMG did not know this have to stop NOW because kidddddsss will DIE!!!
+1 for putting the truth so eloquently and giving me a laugh :D
EDIT: And, not-so-funny, here we have it. In an article about Atlantis:
Silk Road is pushing more than ten thousand products and services, including forged ID cards, stolen credit cards, guns, explosives, prostitution, assassinations, child pornography, gold bars, and – of course – lots and lots of heavy-duty drugs.
http://thediplomat.com/tech-biz/2013/06/27/deep-web-drug-peddling-site-atlantis-begins-advertising-push/
Sometimes I understand why you guys hate my profession :(
I wrote a comment on the offending article and received the following reply by email:
Good morning Eileen,
Thank you for the comment on the piece I wrote yesterday. It included a misplaced reference to a Business Insider story that I will fix:
http://www.businessinsider.com/tor-silk-road-deep-web-2013-3?op=1
I misread the bullet points as being subdivisions of Silk Road, not separate entities.
The story will be changed to reflect this. I apologize for the error -- I had to rely on outside stories about what is available there since I cannot access SR from work.
Have a nice day and happy Friday (from Tokyo).
Kind regards,
Jeff
Story still hasn't changed, but at least they printed my comment.
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I just don't think that Altantis is going to be popular at all
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Random Viewer -
How do I know you're not just a front set up by the NSA to easily catch druggies? I'd stick to SR and the other small-time sites until that's proven otherwise, especially since they haven't made a YouTube video about themselves in the years that they've been active.
Atlantis Account -
Great comment and questions,
Ultimately you have to decide about us for yourself but we just did our first $500,000 in sales and exist mainly because of the rise of SR and the fact they now often fall victim to DDoS and other attacks.
You may also be surprised to find many of your favorite SR sellers on Atlantis with lower prices since we charge lower commissions and have support staff who can manually verify their identity and feedback on SR before they start selling on Atlantis
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I think this is proof that Atlantis was behind the DDoS attacks?
They said that Atlantis exists mainly because of the rise of Silk Road and the FACT THEY NOW OFTEN FALL VICTIM TO DDoS and OTHER ATTACKS.
I haven't noticed that we OFTEN fall victim to DDoS attacks.. Actually I can count the number of times I was denied in the past 4 months on 1 hand.. maybe 2 fingers! lol atlantis. FAIL
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I'm guessing that was sarcasm? Noone brought that line to the attention of the board yet, so I pointed it out.
I remember when the whole DDoS thing was going on there were plenty of fingers pointed at atlantis, and they had some people in our forum backing atlantis up. Im not sure what ended up coming of it, or if it was concluded that they had something to do with it.
So if it is known, sorry for reiterating, and if it wasn't know, then my opinion is that they were behind the attacks, especially after they wrote what they did above.
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Why all the fear?
LE already knows about SR, BMR, and ATL - no harm has been done. I for one appreciate the advertisement. It was a good video. Advertisement is necessary for a business to survive. DPR advertised at one point and if he hadn't then we wouldn't be here right now. I don't doubt that if DPR needed to he would advertise again. It is good for us to have multiple black markets to access. It creates redundancy and competition, which benefits all of us.
I support all markets where people are free to connect and trade. Atlantis is throwing up a flag and letting people know it is here. They put the word out on SR but I believe most of us already operating on the SR are comfortable here and see no reason to move. The next logical thing for them to do is go after the untapped masses who know nothing about Tor, Bitcoins, and dark-net marketplaces yet. Good for them! They deserve that business if they can get it.
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Hilarious :D
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This is why I`ll never use Atlantis for anything. Too much heat for me
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This is why I`ll never use Atlantis for anything. Too much heat for me
Yeah, Silk Road doesn't have heat. ::)
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Roflmao!
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color me paranoid, but could it be the DEA/establishment is intentionally causing bad press on SR... so as to gain public support.
it's kind of like the tactics the police use against protestors: have one of your guys dress up as a civillian and cause some havoc... and before you know it, the cops spray the tear gas on peaceful protestors.
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The advertisement was pulled from Youtube after 2 days as it was closing in on 100,000 views.
It did the trick though. Here's just a few of the news stories about the ad:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2350952/Inside-Atlantis-The-online-black-market-lets-users-buy-sell-drugs-forgeries-hacking-services-anonymously.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/01/closing-down-drugs-websites
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/27/new-commercial-for-atlant_n_3512504.html
http://thediplomat.com/tech-biz/2013/06/27/deep-web-drug-peddling-site-atlantis-begins-advertising-push/
http://au.businessinsider.com/atlantis-drug-marketplace-2013-6
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convenient how the media jumped on it so quickly, isn't it?
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;)
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Seems that any SR competition just completely destroys themselves :) This video probably resulted in a group shit shared by the handful of people that actually use Atlantis.
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Good boy Atlantis you ring the dinner bell while we enjoy our comforts and watch your jenga game in interest...... with binoculars........on the other side of the woods...... with vests and helmets on...... by all means you advertise your demise while silk is on the rise to the skies damn i'm high... lol
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I'll sell you the key to the gates of Atlantis all I require a single ring