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Support => Feature requests => Topic started by: human5 on February 29, 2012, 03:08 am

Title: Official BULK purchases for street sellers thread
Post by: human5 on February 29, 2012, 03:08 am
I believe the next step in the advancement of the Silk Road is Accommodation for bulk sales. No doubt this place is a network, and if you guys know anything about the drug "game" (obviously, I'm assuming you do) then you know that people who are pushing and come back fast get better prices because the overall goal is to let the product flow as much as possible. I'd like to see lower prices/new features/maybe lower SR tax for people who are willing to cop QP's and up on the regular and move them shits outside of SR to local users/small time suppliers in their hometowns.

Obviously, this is pushing the boundaries a bit as it means more money on the line for both sellers and buyers, I expect to finalize early for at least first purchases. I've been asking sellers around questions on the subject and I've gotten some cooperation but ofc people are iffy because of the fact that so much money/ product is on the line and also, they need to differentiate between people who are buying large purchases for personal use (and will therefore be buying every month or so) and people who are purchasing to sell to non-SR affiliated local users/suppliers. People like me willing to scoop large weight like this need to build a reputation for being serious about business, and be known for purchasing large amounts frequently.

A couple suggestions I can think of are:
1. Buyer ranking system like the one for vendors
2. Improved pricing system for large scale buyers (maybe if the same large quantity is purchased multiple times a month the price drops a certain percentage?)
3. Let reputable vendors be able to see the buyers last purchases, so they could gauge whether a price drop would be a worthy investment to gain that buyers business (maybe only the top 50% or ones with more than 50-100 successful transactions, so LE can't just make a vendor account and bring me into court with concrete evidence of exactly how much illegal drugs I was trafficking) 

There's many ways this could be done, but I would like to work with this wonderful network and help the product flow. Hope to hear some feedback on these ideas!  8) :) :o :-X :( :-* :-* :'(
Title: Re: Official BULK purchases for street sellers thread
Post by: esgal on February 29, 2012, 06:21 am
Just a couple issues with that....first of all if you wanna buy bulk you can already talk to vendors and a lot of them will be happy to cooperate...
secondly requiring first time buyers to finalize early for "QP's and up"....yea sure....just send me that $900 and FE, ill be sure to send you that QP right away..........WAYYYYY to easy for scammers to get a lot of money in only one transaction
third, SRs commision percentage actually drops with the higher value the transaction is, so if you do decide to cop QP's up on the regular you will be paying less in commission then if you were to be doing the same with dime bags
fourth the current buyer ranking system actually includes how much you've spent total, and also how many transactions you've done

just sayin