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Discussion => Silk Road discussion => Topic started by: pgfzr on September 12, 2012, 05:21 am

Title: SR...pure genius. Adivce for any new members
Post by: pgfzr on September 12, 2012, 05:21 am
Greetings!
Love and Peace to all fellow SR users!

I just found out about this website and I must say, wow.
An essentially anonymous marketplace. Who would of thought in this post 9/11 world that we live in where there is a war on privacy and security.

I know I am new and I have many forums to read to learn how to keep this place growing. I'd appreciate any advice for a new member like myself. Once again there is much research to do on my part and I hope to interact with many of you kind folk!!


-Freedom Lover65
Title: Re: SR...pure genius. Adivce for any new members
Post by: metaphoe on September 12, 2012, 05:24 am
 8) just figgure out the encryption stuff, and just basically be a ninja/spy at the same damn time lol
Title: Re: SR...pure genius. Adivce for any new members
Post by: pgfzr on September 12, 2012, 05:27 am
metaphoe

thanks for your comment!! im reading the encryption topics now. Pretty neat stuff. Im not very computer proficient but I think ill get the hang of it.

And the spy/ninja comment,
Already on it my dude  8)

-FreedomLover65
Title: Re: SR...pure genius. Adivce for any new members
Post by: uniwiz on September 12, 2012, 06:14 am
Spent at least a few days reading the forums.
Try to find the old "stickies", and maybe the wiki as well.

Don't do Money Packs!!!

Don't buy for at least a week or two.
Start slow, trust no one.
I made this ->http://dkn255hz262ypmii.onion/index.php?topic=3901.0
So you know how to deal with vendors.
Glad it stayed up ;)

Don't FE, gonna big hard cause you are new.
Start small, build trust ;)


Read, read, read........
Title: Re: SR...pure genius. Adivce for any new members
Post by: Knomo on September 12, 2012, 06:20 am
Yeah start small and build trust :) Best advice you can get, honestly.
Title: Re: SR...pure genius. Adivce for any new members
Post by: AnOn.edu on September 12, 2012, 06:31 am
SR is kinda like picking up someone at a bar.  Spend some time getting enough info to make sure it's safe to move forward.  Know you're going to spend some money so make sure you have enough to cover the tab.  When you end up closing the deal make sure your protected, and when both of you get what you want make sure to finalize it right.

If you're cool it could turn into a regular thing.
Title: Re: SR...pure genius. Adivce for any new members
Post by: j3an on September 12, 2012, 10:45 am
1, Learn at least a bit about Tor, and its benefits.

2. Use the security subforum, read the stickied threads and take on as many of the suggestions as practically possible.

3. Stay domestic unless you live in China/Russia/Aus etc. Yes, weed might be cheaper and better but is the payoff really worth all the extra LE checks?

4. Use PGP. Vendors have disclosed that, very generally speaking, only 10% at best use PGP to obfuscate their addresses. Chances are if your vendor is busted the police will have full access to your address, regardless of it being encrypted; however if TSR server is busted there will be no way for LE to find out what name and address are attached to your account name.
 
5. Trust your intuition. If an offer's too good to be true, or a vendor's profile looks like its been written by a 14yo do you really want them to hold your personal details?

A CLASSIC example of this was a weed vendor called greyfoxx who sold really nice weed at decent prices.

In his profile he would visciously attack vendors selling average weed for high prices. He sounded like like a psycho, so avoided him despite good reviews posted by customers.

He began posting transcripts with customers, and the final straw was posting a customer's personal name and address on his vendor profile.

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I would say if you follow all these you will be absolutely fine. There is a lot of low-hanging fruit as I mentioned above, who do not use PGP, do not read the forums, FE on ounces of weed, accept "free samples", use skype to talk to random investigative journalists as evidenced in another thread etc etc etc. Don't be one of them.

Good luck :) 

Title: Re: SR...pure genius. Adivce for any new members
Post by: Bungee54 on September 12, 2012, 02:09 pm
Buy from us :)  *shameless self-promotion*

Okay serious ->  The tips from others are great..lurk around a while & read ,read, read-


NEVER FE ! USE GPG favorably in a VM with Linux or Liberte, Tails OS-

& read about bitcoin so you will not get burned on price fluctuations (which get less as time goes by).

Cheers!
Title: Re: SR...pure genius. Adivce for any new members
Post by: metta on September 12, 2012, 09:28 pm
Great suggestions, all of them . . . many of which I have followed, and so far, SR has been fantastic.
Title: Re: SR...pure genius. Adivce for any new members
Post by: pgfzr on September 13, 2012, 03:15 am
Thanks to All!!

All of you guys have good advice!! I'm sure this will be a pleasureful experience.

Im not a weed guy really. More into tripping. :P I have seen Buddhanature sells some pretty interesting items and he is in the top 8% of TSR. I will be trying to get some things from him soon.

Once again thanks to all who responded.

Peace and good vibes!

-FreedomLover65
Title: Re: SR...pure genius. Adivce for any new members
Post by: gonzorx on September 13, 2012, 06:26 am
trust vendors like you trust washing powder commercials.
Title: Re: SR...pure genius. Adivce for any new members
Post by: ZenAndTheArt on September 13, 2012, 05:04 pm
We came up with a few guidelines for new members (well, any member really), just follow the 'Rules of the Road' link in my sig below.

Just dive in... take a swim.  8)