I am not a cyber security expert etc, just a simple market user who occasionally purchases very small amounts for personal use. This is NOT about any potential security issues with the site, that stuff is way above my head! I just want to report something to the TradeRoute admin people.
I am not going to fully explain what I did on the open forum as others may try it and I have no idea who exactly is losing out of their bitcoins, I just know that SOMEONE must have lost out. Whoever did, I apologize as in testing this your loss has been my gain.
Simple summary, I purchased goods from a vendor, received them - all fine. Several days later I went back onto the site, and my bitcoin was still in my account, despite me finalizing and leaving feedback. At first I thought maybe it was just waiting for confirmations etc (I don't understand how all that stuff works in the background) so I just assumed that my account balance would fix itself over the next few days. I checked again several days later and still the money was in my account. To make sure of this I tried to make another order with the coins and much to my surprize it allowed me to do so - I also received the goods yesterday so someone has definitely lost out here.
If a traderoute admin would like to know what I did, please PM me and I will let you know. It's not like I did anything dodgy, I genuinely did what I thought I was supposed to do to pay for my first order with the site.
Why don't you contact them? Admins don't chronically check reddit and they shouldnt