background: I recently bought some stuff on Crypto Market after hearing about some recent warnings not to use Alpha Bay. I bought a couple items from Buldogmafia on escrow, but later received a message from him demanding that since I was a new user on CM, I finalize early within 7 hours of him sending the message or that he'd cancel my order. He sent the message at 2am, so of course I didn't see the message within 7 hours and he cancelled the order. This wouldn't have been a huge deal, but somehow the money that was in escrow failed to return to my account. I waited a week to see if it was just delayed, but after not seeing anything come back, I messaged a mod and an admin on CM asking about it. They replied after a week and a half saying, "oh, [the btc] should have been returned automatically. What's your wallet ID?" I replied to those messages and haven't heard from them since. It's been 6 weeks now and I have yet to see my btc returned to my account.
A few things could have happened here:
Crypto Market's escrow service is faulty and doesn't return btc properly or doesn't actually hold on to btc before the vendor ships the product
Crypto Market's admins simply stole my money Either way, I'm never using Crypto Market again and I highly discourage other users from using it.
tl;dr Crypto Market is broken or a scam. Avoid at all costs.
This type of shit is the main reason I withdrew all my listings from cryptomarket, because the escrow didn't work correctly/was stolen, messaging system was abysmal, and whole site looks like it was made using geocities (for all those that remember it)