Pretty fucking simple guide, apparently people don't kno what opsec is around here.
- Don't FE, Don't Finalize, until you are high, yours is high, or it's tested on a reagent or lab. Pretty fucking simple. If the vendor asks you to finalize any earlier than that, tell them to go fuck themselves.
If you received the product, but just absolutely cannot test it until the weekend, tell the vendor that, and don't fucking finalize (you're an asshole for not having a testing reagent or can't just do a small taste, but better to be a high asshole than a scammed nice guy). If the listing auto-finalizes before you have time to inspect the product, open a dispute, and explain the situation.
- Get Testing Reagents for what you do. If you do MDMA, get a Marquis, maybe a Mandelin. If you do Coke, get a Scotts, etc. If you do LSD, then you need Ehrlich. For most chems, Marquis is a pretty good cover-all, a Marquis + Specific Reagent like Ehrlich or scotts would really go a long way.
There's a couple things you probably don't need a test kit for - weed is super obvious, dope might be obvious (or you might be so sick you don't have 15 seconds to test it, I understand), but get a fucking test kit, especially for trips and chems.
You really aren't sacrificing anything to do a test. You can easily test from the non-visible residue left in the bag, a speck, a dot of powder or off the scrape of a pill, an impossibly tiny cut piece off a blotter, as in the only reason you cut it as large as you did, was so you could actually see the piece of blotter you cut off. Reagents are highly volatile and reactive compounds, so with any product except maybe plant or fungal matter, you really need nothing at all to test with.
Also, fuck Dancesafe, BunkPolice, etc, their test kits are a total, marketed rip-off. You can buy testing reagents on Ebay for dirt fucking cheap, about $5 each shipped. They are also all pretty easy to make, ie Ehrlichs is just para-Dimethylaminobenzaldehyde (available easily at chem supply for super cheap), Ethanol, and Hydrochloric Acid (hardware store). The invaluable Marquis is just Sulfuric Acid + Formaldehyde.There's also a couple listings for multiple test kits for ~$15-25 too.
Avoid Bad Markets, ie Avoid Silk Road 2. You fucking idiots, don't use it.
If you're a first time buyer, don't fucking buy some huge amount of product. You haven't been around a while, you might not know conventional wisdom like 'oh yea his product is weak' or 'yea he's a selective scammer', so just hold your horses. Make a sample purchase first. Shit takes like 2-3 days usually for mail, you can wait that.
FEEDBACK CAN BE FAKED, ALWAYS SEARCH THE VENDOR. Anything less than 50+ feedback is possibly faked. Search here on /r/dnm, search the market's forum or sub. If you can't find anything less than tons of mentions on them from established posters (you know, more than 1 post, didnt just join, does more than shill), then you need to do some more research. The more obscure the product is, the more likely it's a scammer, so be aware of that if you are having trouble finding a certain product.
THERES PLENTY OF FISH IN THE SEA. You don't have to buy it from that one vendor. Rare products, especially, attract scammers who attract desperation. The more desperate you are, the more likely you will get scammed. If he doesn't accept escrow, then tell him to fuck off. It's not that there's only one guy who sells, say, AL-LAD or Quaaludes, it's that no one sells them, and those listings are scams.
USE PGP. Don't be a fucking idiot. If you use coinbase, tumble the coins.
It's perfectly okay to buy from totally new, unheard of vendors, as long as you don't FE. And if a listing sounds too good to be true, it probably is. Which is okay, use escrow, turns out scam, you lose nothing.
DID YOU FINALIZE EARLY, DID YOU USE SILK ROAD 2? IF THE ANSWER TO ONE OR MORE OF THESE QUESTIONS IS YES, YOUR AN IDIOT.
If you followed these rules, you will never be scammed. Pretty straightforward. If you get scammed, it's because you're a fucking gullible schlub, and I bet you got burned quite a bit in real life deals didn't you.
TLDR DON'T FE, DON'T SR2, GET A FUCKING TESTING REAGENT FOR $5, FIRST TIME BUYER DONT BE FUCKING RETARDED, BUY SMALL
Don't bash dance safe or bunk police too hard! They do a lot of good by simply existing and spreading their messages to large audiences! Yes their kits way overpriced, but the message and education they provide can save lives, and needs growth ;)