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Market => Rumor mill => Topic started by: fivestargirl on July 26, 2013, 03:12 pm
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I didn't feel the need to have an official thread before yesterday's recent scammer. I thought I would keep a low forum presence and just let the good and honest buyers find me. I thought wrong. So this is the OFFICIAL FIVESTAR THREAD.
I believe in open communication and honesty- even if someone truly thinks my product or service is not up to par- I will leave their posts up. I believe in constructive viewpoints as we can all improve and the minds of many are greater then the minds of a few. So I will not delete negative posts- I will however delete scammers and out those who blackmail me on this page.
Yesterday, on 7/25/13 I dealt with a huge scammer who has destroyed my faith in the SR Community. He is the 10th scammer I have had and its sickening. "Karwat" on the forums here is a scammer, blackmailer and holds feedback hostage to meet his demands. He is merely pissed that I wouldn't take product from nyc to jersey for him and distribute locally and ignored his 10+ emails. I respect the SR community and would not break DPR's rules - any buyer who is insistent upon this clearly does not respect DPR or their vendor and should be banned.
So now I am starting this page so legitimate buyers can review my product, service, stealth, etc. And I will also use it to blacklist and out those who are scammers. I have not done this and given in to these terrorists but I cannot continue to deal with the drama, stress, lies, demands for money and operate a business.
I offer a great product, reasonable price, superior stealth and awesome communication. Thats me in a nuttshell. I am a female- and I run product locally - however I don't take buyers out of DPR's pocketbook- this is his business for which I have the utmost respect.
If I reupp I will always let you know. I have not done so yet because I buy bulk. I do however only allocate a small amount on SR as I make more locally on this.
I understand that some people think $200+ for a gram is obscene. I am one of those people. For those of you who don't understand what vendors go through- we eat roughly 30% in fees. 14% to SR including hedging, 8% difference because our btc payout rate is higher then the market, and another 5-8% to cash out safely. So prices are inflated because there are fees associated with doing business in this venue. I charge $160 for a gram locally and thats about what I net out of here. So while I understand that buyers think they are getting overcharged- thats the price of doing business on SR. I pay a premium to be on here- and you pay a premium for anonymity and safety - there is no way around that.
In terms of my shipping. Everything I do is with my own safety and the buyer's safety in mind. I don't take shortcuts. I have switched to handwritten Express labels for this exact reason. I get a ton of emails from people suggesting I use printed ones - I used to do this until I realized it puts the BUYER in jeopardy. I grow quite tired of this suggestion and I'm going to explain why. While you might think handwritten labels are amateurish - they are the safest form of shipping for the buyer.
Let me tell you a quick story- On my first run of H stamps I had one desperate buyer whose Express shipment took 2 days. He is always a 2-day Express as he lives in a very small town and I priced it out prior to shipment and informed him of that. The next day I log in to see 33 emails from him. He is sick, desperate, pleading for a tracking number, accusing me of not shipping, threatening me, etc etc etc. So I caved and gave him his tracking number. Then I log-in to another 20+ emails. He has called USPS a dozen or so times, he went to his local PO since the online tracking didn't show where it was, and he spoke to his local courier when he came to his door. The amount of times he contacted and stalked USPS scared me. I then realized that any electronic postage system - usps.com, stamps.com, pitneybowes.com- ties all of my buyers to one another. ALL of these systems store your addresses FOREVER - linked to my return address and linked to each other. Had this buyer told USPS he was waiting for his "medicine" - every one of my buyers would be in jeopardy.
Now mind you- my return address is totally stealth. I pay for postage using prepaid cards from a different state, log in anonymously to print labels- I am untouchable. However you as a buyer are not. You think I want to sit here each day and write out 20 labels when I know I can do it in 2 minutes copy and paste online? But I will not knowingly risk my buyer's safety to save myself time. The only way to get a tracking number - AND MAKE EACH PACKAGE INDEPENDENT OF ITSELF and only linked to itself....is to use handwritten labels and Express mail stamps.
Of course I could print labels and stand in line in the PO with 30 packages a day but guess what - thats not safe and all of your tracking numbers are still on one receipt tied to each other. Your addresses may not be stored but they are certainly linked. So after many packages I have switched to what I feel is the safest all around. Again, I don't take shortcuts on this product or on safety.
Please feel free to leave your in-depth reviews on me here and I look forward to open communication and a positive forum for discussion.
xoxo,
[REDACTED]-fivestar
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Just for people wondering, unless she announces officially and loudly that she's coming back...she's not coming back. I had sideline conversations with her about online poker, and in passing she mentioned that any forum speculation about her return should be ended if possible. Therefore, I am doing a solid and passing that along.
I don't know anything more about the contributing factors, but - sounds like the sum of the whole incident with the one guy was the straw that broke the camel's back. Back to 7c8c beating AcKc with a straight flush on the river, and that type of stuff.