Long time lurker of this sub here and been a buyer since the SR1 days. I just hit $10,000 spent on alphabay and I have no one to talk about it with. I know about all the drama surrounding the market and I ALWAYS come here first before I make any deposit into any market...
But am I the only one who has never had problems with alphabay? I've heard their support is terrible but I've never had to use it myself. All of my transactions have been flawless thus far because I always use trusted vendors with escrow.
It makes sense that the more popular a market gets, the more complaints there are going to be. Example: A user get phished on Dream market and makes a post on this sub how they got scammed. At the same time, 5 users get phished on alphabay and also make posts in this sub claiming they got scammed. Well, alphabay looks pretty bad now with all these claims but they also have 5x the users that dream has. In this example they both have the same amount of complaints 'per capita' but alphabay looks worse because you see more of the complaints and that's why I think alphabay is looked down upon in this sub. Even our precious market named AGORA had lots of scam complaints against them.
I'm not saying I trust AlphaBay though, but you complainers must be getting phished or something. I'm sure a market would make SURE there deposit addresses were working before they decided to exit scam lol. I've always had my coins in 30 mins or less and I make sure to place my order ASAP so even if the market decides to run off with the coins, at least my pack is still on the way.
20,000GBP so about 30,000USD, never an issue with the site, never had an issue on any site, lost cash to Evo & Blackbank exit scams, been scammed by vendors on Evo & Nucleus (got refunded by admin)
People who don't have 2FA enabled have issues, people who don't disable scripts have issues, people who click anything in front of them have issues.