Silk Road forums
Discussion => Security => Topic started by: happytree on July 29, 2011, 12:53 am
-
First, let me apologize if this is topic thread is posted elsewhere and mod, please feel free to move it, if this isn't the appropriate place. However, I have noticed a LOT lately that there are repeated cases of sellers starting out (5 or so+) with positive transactions and feedback, and the suddenly feedback going consistently to "1 out of 5, never received, thankfully SR refunded my money, never heard from seller", etc. etc.
While I realize it is the responsibility of a buyer to be a bit more intelligent than your average bear, and READ the recent reviews of other buyers in order to determine as to whether he/she wants to assume the risk of the same kind of experience, I would like to think that SR monitors the shitty sellers from the ones with consistent, high feedback (I'm not talking about people leaving dick comments about quality), but the ones that are OBVIOUSLY consistently ripping people off. I don't think it takes a genius to determine which sellers are, versus aren't scamming.
Do new people repeatedly have to be ripped off and bitch and moan about it in the forums (and if so, what constitutes a "fair" number of new people being ripped-off) for SR to finally remove these dirty sellers?
Just some food for thought and/or improvement here....I myself am no high-roller in life. And therefore, even one time I get scammed - just the hassle of it will probably give me enough reason to not buy here again. Not that anyone would care. But this place is sacred to me, and I would like to keep it as safe and protected for all as well, as possible.
Happy Happy Tree Tree
-
Happy Happy Tree Tree
Hey, you stole my term of affection for you! hehe....nice :D
-
+1 happy
-
dont buy from any one with negative or zero feedback?
-
Barry has (last I checked) almost 100% positive feedback.
That doesn't always work.
And this might be an unpopular opinion, but Having newbies get ripped off might not be the worst thing.
Ideally it shouldn't happen, but it might serve to keep people who are lax about security off the site.
If a buyer has lax security and gets busted, He'll probably admit to where he got the stuff and that just draws more attention our way...
It's not great, and not Ideal, but it keeps people on their toes. Like it or not, what happens here is highly illegal.
-
Newbies tend to be even more impatient than the rest of us. They've never gotten drugs off the internet and they really want to see it happen: that magic moment when they open the envelope/box and a day or two of feelin' groovy falls out. It's a magical experience and every newbie wants to have his "first".
But in the old days when we didn't have great stuff like escrow and a resolution center, the ONLY way a newbie could afford to buy online was if they didn't get ripped off constantly. And that meant going to the forum, reading ALL the posts back about 6 months and forming their own, very clear, mental image of the people involved on the site. Once they did that they were nearly as caught up as the people who had been around for a long while. While there's no substitute for experience, there is a very straightforward way to capitalize on *other* people's experiences and that's to read the board, sober, until you get the picture.
That said, I agree with Ms Tree and I don't understand why SR is letting BS keep on keepin' on. But I have to believe *something* is up because it is totally out of character for SR to see and hear all of our complaints and then do nothing about it. I have a feeling we're only going to hear about this one "after it's over." ;)