Hopefully this covers all the relevant bases in a short post.
As a user I've never had a problem with AlphaBay. No missing deposits. No balances disappearing. No orders going to autofinalize with or without explanation. The one time I've had to use AlphaBay's support, they responded in about 24 hours, and they had the situation handled in about 72.
I've used AB for nearly 100 orders on my current account, and over 100 on my previous account with no problems.
I read this sub as often as I can, but most of the time it seems to be people have virtually no intelligence when it comes to handling their money in what can seem a 'difficult' fashion. If you literally don't mind all of your Ps and Qs, you run the risk of getting burned, and I'm willing to bet, after getting my dope digitally for nearly a decade, AlphaBay is NOT to blame.
I'll leave it to BBMC or GrandWizardsLair to enumerate the many possible ways you literal noobs fucked up because God I love reading those posts.
In no way to I love AB. I've said it before and I'll say it again, FUCK AlphaBay. BUT it gets the job done, and quite frankly I like the Russians. Just get over your fear of carders or take your big business elsewhere if you can't... to another market whos admins you have absolutely no knowledge of. That's super sound reasoning to me!
any of the markets can fuck you at will.