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Title: ThePerksOfLife - new vendor
Post by: gracevan3569 on September 14, 2012, 06:59 pm
Just wondering if anyone (besides myself) have placed an order with this vendor?

He sells mainly opioids - Percocet, Oxycontin, etc.  He prices are the lowest on SR right now. I placed an order after discussing what I was looking for and everything seemed legit.  I'm in escrow and staying that way, but after I placed my order he put up lottery listings to win 500mgs worth of Percocet.  That is a lot of Percocet to give away.  I get trying to build up buyers, but I get nervous about lotteries on SR.

Looking for any information any may have.  It has been almost two days since we corresponded and I ordered.  It has not been put in  transit.  Don't want to get my btc tied up...especially after having a number of flawless transactions on SR. 

And this post is NOT to slam the vendor at all.  Just asking a question.  In fact, this post can be the start of a glowing review thread if things work out.
Title: Re: ThePerksOfLife - new vendor
Post by: saintgabriels on September 19, 2012, 07:14 pm
Did you get your order yet? I'm thinking of placing an order with this guy but I can't find anything on him. I'm not going to trust the feedback on SR and I really don't want something to go wrong.....
Title: Re: ThePerksOfLife - new vendor
Post by: MagicMan on September 19, 2012, 09:14 pm
Is anyone else getting that Perky vibe?
Title: Re: ThePerksOfLife - new vendor
Post by: gracevan3569 on September 20, 2012, 09:00 pm
I have not received anything from ThePerksOfLife yet.  He was responsive to a couple of questions but has not been on SR in a day or so now.  He obviously did not send when he said he did after charging a lot for 2-day with DCN shipping.

He may come through, may have shipped later than he said he did.  Myabe he got overwhelmed with orders and being new couldn't handle. I expect to experience my first resolution situation and I will not be accepting anything less than 100% refund.  After all, he says he will deliver or 100% money back and I know he won't be able to produce a DCN. 

Anyway, haven't lost all hope but I am highly suspect. I would probably have never have used him, but the other vendors that I have used before were out. I would love to hear from anyone else.

Postscript: if he comes through and is honest about why it's taken so long, I will be right back here to amend my comments.
Title: Re: ThePerksOfLife - new vendor
Post by: gracevan3569 on September 21, 2012, 12:56 am
I would like to know if anyone on the forum won the lottery(s) or if they have had a successful transaction.
Title: Re: ThePerksOfLife - new vendor
Post by: gracevan3569 on September 21, 2012, 10:34 pm
Just an update to bump this as a warning to others...still no order received. I'm fine calling this vendor out because I have received packages from others in the same time frame.  Fortunately, I was smart enough to spread my order out to find the best and stayed in escrow.  The bad part is I now I will have to go through resolution with this guy and take the hit to my "credit score". 

What a waste of time...
Title: Re: ThePerksOfLife - new vendor
Post by: tobeornot on September 30, 2012, 11:06 pm
Well crap. I still haven't received my order that was in transit 4 days ago, and I paid for the 2 day DCN...also, I sent a message to inquire, if there was anyway he could look up the number, to see where it was, or......something? (Newbie, here, Idfk...lol)..My sent message hasn't even been "read" yet...so, obviously zilch reply. I'm frustrated too, to say the very least.
Title: Re: ThePerksOfLife - new vendor
Post by: bigdaddy5150 on October 01, 2012, 10:39 pm
I placed an order with this guy BEFORE reading this thread because I'm a fucking dumbass. If it still says processing by the time I'm able to cancel the order, will I have my BTC returned immediately or do I have to resolve it? I just started buying and I don't want to fuck up my buyer stats but if it becomes a problem I suppose I can just make a new account.
Title: Re: ThePerksOfLife - new vendor
Post by: redalloverthelandguyhere on October 01, 2012, 11:26 pm
Don't worry, if you have escrow you will be OK.

The vendior can either refund you or SR will.

If you did FE, and the guy is a scammer, its just life. Happened to everyone here who has been long enough.

The guy might be having troubles so PM him and obviously inform SR IF you have no orders sent out.

I would never FE for anything. But if your new, its a chance you take and you should buy small and only off reputable traders not the cheapest guy or girl!

 ;)
Title: Re: ThePerksOfLife - new vendor
Post by: bigdaddy5150 on October 02, 2012, 12:54 pm
Don't worry, if you have escrow you will be OK.

The vendior can either refund you or SR will.

If you did FE, and the guy is a scammer, its just life. Happened to everyone here who has been long enough.

The guy might be having troubles so PM him and obviously inform SR IF you have no orders sent out.

I would never FE for anything. But if your new, its a chance you take and you should buy small and only off reputable traders not the cheapest guy or girl!

 ;)


Thanks for the advice, of course it was the price that caught my attention. I didn't FE and I'm willing to bet the order won't get marked "in transit" by the time my option to cancel shows up. Will I receive bad feedback for cancelling without contacting the vendor first? He/she has some decent reviews but I'm worried that the vendor got jammed up/had to skip town and I want to reallocate my BTC as soon as possible. Gotta get my stats up :D
Title: Re: ThePerksOfLife - new vendor
Post by: bigdaddy5150 on October 02, 2012, 06:57 pm
Cancelled my order today. I'll be staying away from this one until I hear a LOT of good things.
Title: Re: ThePerksOfLife - new vendor
Post by: patswin on October 02, 2012, 10:57 pm
I cancelled my 2 pending orders too. Guy hasn't been on in three days. All his listings came down (despite him not having been seen for three days? - had a huge list of active listings yesterday of all kinds of items and a roxi lottery) and even though yesterday it said I had to wait three days for cancel to be active, it was active today so I used it so he couldn't mark in transit and tie up my funds through resolution for weeks. Just getting a bad vibe. I don't have any personal reason to believe he's up to no good but the whole lottery thing concerns me. Vendor has 46 positive feedback but only 13 are for products shipped, rest are for virtual items (Lotteries) and how does anyone know if they ever pay off? Of the 13 shipped items some express concerns about shipping and communication. The whole lottery thing (buy a ticket for $10, finalize early, and must leave 5/5 feedback) creeps me out. Great way to earn money and possibly not give any product and also bury bad feedback in an avalanche of positive feedback that isn't worth anything really. I'm open to the possibility that this vendor is perfectly legit and would be happy to retract my concerns - but until I see some legit positive feedback I'm going to hang back. His page says all the right things and his prices (except for shipping) were fair enough. If it's new vendor growing pains I hope he works it out and we have a new reasonably priced responsible vendor some day.
Title: Re: ThePerksOfLife - new vendor
Post by: tobeornot on October 02, 2012, 11:47 pm
Can anyone give me some advice on this???

SO. GET THIS!  >:
Received my order today! WTF!! Ok, so happy bout that part. But am feeling a little in limbo now on what to do NOW. Here's my order:

buyer: tobeornot
seller: ThePerksOfLife(100)
contract: Standard Escrow v1.0
item: Drugs, man. Drugs
quantity: Enough for now
shipping: 2 DAY!! W DCN<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
postage: $19.60<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
total price: $
ordered: September 25, 2012, 10:07 pm UTC
shipped: September 26, 2012, 4:55 am UTC<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

I sent him a message bout compensation on the $19.60, before the 11 days I have before auto-finalizing kicks in. He hasn't read my first message either so...
I do NOT want it to end up that I get screwed outta his deal on the  2 day shipping AND auto-finalizing, where it looks like I'm the incompetent idiot. UGHHHHHHHHHHHH

Please!!! Anyone help a gal out?
Title: Re: ThePerksOfLife - new vendor
Post by: rohan on October 04, 2012, 05:01 am
I'm in a similar boat.  First time placing an order with this vendor.  Although I have had great luck with many other vendors, so I didn't pay much attention to the red flags (lottery, slow communication).

Ordered on Sept. 27th and it was marked as shipped on Sept 29th.  I also paid for the 2 Day express shipping.  I haven't received my order so clearly... not so express.  I have not received a single response to a message since the 29th.

Since Tobeornot got her order, I'll keep my fingers crossed.  Based on what others are saying here, I won't be surprised if I have to work through a resolution for the first time.  Glad I'm  still in escrow, but still sucks.

Quote
I sent him a message bout compensation on the $19.60, before the 11 days I have before auto-finalizing kicks in. He hasn't read my first message either so...
I do NOT want it to end up that I get screwed outta his deal on the  2 day shipping AND auto-finalizing, where it looks like I'm the incompetent idiot. UGHHHHHHHHHHHH

Please!!! Anyone help a gal out?

Personally, I would just finalize and try to forget about the lost shipping cost, and move on.  Whether I get my order or not, I won't be using this vendor again.
Title: Re: ThePerksOfLife - new vendor
Post by: HeadacheHealer on October 04, 2012, 06:42 am
Okay... I don't know how kosher it is to "advertise" one's self this way, but this is exactly why I can't STAND opiate vendors.  In real life they're horrendous, and even on here they do shit like this.

I've had a bunch of 30mg Oxycodone HCl, IR pills listed at $31 for a week now (Mallinckrodt brand too, the [M]s... as many of you know, the best ones!)  But they still aren't even popping up for most search terms, except one which comes up at the very bottom.  Being a new vendor, I don't know what's up, perhaps just needs more time.  But I'm sitting here checking for messages and orders every 10 minutes during my "SR times" (written at the top of each item and in EST--I've got a real job, I'm not just another junkie scamming whoever he can to get a fix while sitting in his mother's basement shooting up bitcoins here people...).  I did get one order which was shipped 12 hours later from a pretty new buyer, and I got another order tonight but he had been a member on SR for 3 hours at the time he ordered and had 0 transactions and wouldn't respond to a PM sent within 30 seconds of his order (and he wanted a LOT of them!)

If you canceled your order with this guy (he did TWO lottery scams and no one's the wiser? sheesh, good idea! just kidding :P), or just flat out want to deal with someone who is a businessman and straightforward, give me a try. I am listing only a few dozen of these at a time so I don't get too many orders at once and can't keep up (though that'd be awesome).  My pet manatee named Wilma tries to sell me 200 of these a week at a decent bulk price and I usually agree to get them.  She's been my pet for 2 years and works like clockwork, good ol' Wilma.  Sometimes she dives deep down and won't give me any though, but anything I have listed I have in hand, and always will.

As much as I can't stand scammer dealers, I'd be pissed if I got scammed from a new buyer, so right now I'm only taking orders from established buyers (no FE required obviously), unless a new buyer wanted to FE (sending out an express one to a new buyer tomorrow actually, he asked if he could FE).  Also, since I realized half the competition is full of shit and scamming/selectively scamming people, I moved my price up a little to still be the cheapest, but more in line with other people ($32.75 right now).

Unfortunately it's too late for me to get orders to ship out tomorrow (I only ship in the mornings and I'm OCD about packaging them, in a good way, but it takes approx. an hour each).  And with Columbus day on Monday (no postage iirc?), priority orders wouldn't get received until Tuesday most likely (I could do express friday morning and ETA would be saturday but if usps fucks up then you have to wait until tuesday :/  So, you could just wait til the weekend anyway if you wanted to get any from me, and I could spend the holiday playing with packing tape and labels!  Don't wait til monday night though, that's just cruel and I won't get them all out tuesday then--that is, if anyone gets any).

If you want to give me a try, my vendor link is in my sig below.
--Your friendly neighborhood healer of aches in the head

(again, sorry if posting like this in another vendor-bashing thread is inappropriate, I'll remove / a mod can if it is)
Title: Re: ThePerksOfLife - new vendor
Post by: redfunguy on October 11, 2012, 02:22 am
Anyone else waiting for the lottery ThePerksOfLife did?  He pulled the lotto down on the 29th of September and told me a few days ago he was just waiting for one person to finalize.  Would like to see this thing happen already...
Title: Re: ThePerksOfLife - new vendor
Post by: gracevan3569 on October 16, 2012, 12:00 am
Sorry I was away from this thread and SR for a bit.  Not surprised to have these comments on it though.

I did end up receiving pills from the vendor, but they were not brand name as in the pictures and it took FOREVER.  He does not use the 2-day that you pay an arm and a leg for and he is basically non-responsive.  Basically, he is supplimenting his low prices with the high cost of 2-day, and not actually sending 2-day.  I also suspect the pills were way past their "born on date." He will be out right ripping people off before long.

All-in-all the prices doesn't make up for the actual deal.  Funny, all of his stats are lotto (anyone won?) or people who received but are not happy (including me).

What a pain in the ass. I would not recommend this vendor.  He certainly has not been around the biz as he claims.  If he had, this would not be the way.  Will not be using him again.

Perhaps he could show up in this thread and defend himself? Otherwise...
Title: Re: ThePerksOfLife - new vendor
Post by: redfunguy on October 16, 2012, 12:28 am
Lotto  has not happened.  He told me Wednesday at the latest because that is when the lone person who apparently has not finalized will auto finalize.
Title: Re: ThePerksOfLife - new vendor
Post by: HeadacheHealer on October 18, 2012, 05:32 am
told you guys you shoulda used me ;)
All my transactions are limited by the buyer not being able to leave feedback for an extra couple days because they receive it too fast and need to wait 72 hours before doing so...  Sweet problem to have, if you're a buyer, but not-so-much for me haha.
Title: Re: ThePerksOfLife - new vendor
Post by: redfunguy on October 19, 2012, 12:17 am
Apparently lotto has been drawn but the name of the winner is not being published....
Title: Re: ThePerksOfLife - new vendor
Post by: kitkat82 on October 19, 2012, 12:23 am
Apparently lotto has been drawn but the name of the winner is not being published....

hmmm, that is awfully convenient.  I had an order with him a month ago or so and ended up canceling since he never marked it in transit.  I am glad I did after reading this thread.