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Discussion => Newbie discussion => Topic started by: prettyboyfloyd on August 26, 2013, 03:42 pm
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Sure of course they're in competition to a certain extent but with a marketplace like this where people specialize in different products, sell through different environments/risks in different countries to customers made a little more uniform through the particularity of SR access, site architecture, rules and regs etc I'm curious.
Do they share views and opinions on buyers and newbie entrants? On stealth? Maybe on sources sometimes?
Behind the street dealing in my city, there's obviously plenty of organization. Is there some of that between vendors on SR too?
I guess this question sounds a little bit snoopy but what I'm really wondering, with my first orders underway, is whether a vendor with rep might be saying to another vendor I've asked for a different product "This guy's alright, he'll do what he says he's going to do" etc
I'm also wondering what decent vendors think about scammer vendors. and whether they do much about them because of how they mess up business. Someone helpfully pointed out around here that a vendor that doesn't use PGP is likely a fly-by-night sloppy operator. It'd be good to know more about what to look out for. There seem to be some serious problems with the rating system, even with the new amendments - pressure to give a thumbs up for access to future deals, subjectivity about the product, the way drugs use can cause buyers to be more 'emotional' than might be expected from someone purchasing other products.
I've read elsewhere that scammers (vendors and buyers) have been taking the market downhill a little over the last year or so. How's that being tackled? Is this place going to last?