ELI5 - AlphaBay Vendors and Users - Why Would Anyone FE AND Immediately Leave POSITIVE FEEDBACK Without Receiving A Product? (Serious)

If someone could explain to me why the F*ck Buyers are doing this ALL DAY LONG on ALPHABAY and then Bitching here in Reddit about how they got scammed. Isn't that the check/balance/purpose of the Feedback System? You leave your feedback based on the shipping and quality of the product received. Am I missing something? Please shed some light on this for me.


Comments


[2 Points] CocaineNose:

i'm guessing these are past customers who think the vendor will hook them up for leaving positive feedback. You also see "FE early for trusted vendor" and BS like that all the time.


[3 Points] fu_onion:

You may be missing the sad truth that not all feedback is what it appears to be. Anonymity is a two edged sword - easy for a scammy vendor to set up fake DNM accounts to FE fake purchases and recirculate their own BTC, leaving lots of fabulous feedback for themselves?

Costs the scammy shits almost nothing and builds up feedback at the cost of the transaction fee. Almost impossible to prevent and very effective - have a look at the feedback for nuffsiad on AB - looks like pure shill to me and the first few appeared on a sunday (when there are no deliveries in Australia!) within hours of the vendor account going live on AB after being banned from dream. Go figure.

Seems to me that given the size of the DNM regional discussions like the Australian https://www.reddit.com/r/darknetmarketsOZ/ provide more useful and reliable information than the easily faked DNM feedback systems where you have no clue whether it's shill or real. At least on reddit you can figure out whether the poster has any plausible history of posts - could still be a shill but takes a lot more effort and time...


[2 Points] AlphaBayReviewer:

Usually vendors ask that fresh accounts FE because they are less likely to finalize when they recieve the product... Or on samples to cover shipping costs.


[2 Points] None:

Some because it's automatically filled in as 5/5, some because they've bought from the vendor previously, some because they see all the other FE's and assume it's fine to do so, some because..they're dumb? idk pick one dude you can work this out yourself


[2 Points] seenasre:

the thing is, most people are idiots and don't understand what they do

period

you must figure out things alone, in this life


[1 Points] Golden_Miner_Mod:

You never know what you're gonna get. The future is the true unknown. Be patient.


[1 Points] None:

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[1 Points] 180K:

Under the influence?


[1 Points] Flakes2011:

I think a lot of people are afraid of the vendor having their info. They worry about being doxxed, blackmail, threats and having a drop burned. It's pretty shitty people have to worry about this...


[1 Points] Cosmic-CS:

It be fake, and/or just stupid. I have even heard of that as a requirement for some vendors, they guys should be pitchforked


[1 Points] trappy_AB:

1 This is not specifically an alphabay problem, this problem has been around since the first silk road if not before then.

2 Some could be feedback padding

3 Some do not realize that they do not have to leave feedback as soon as they pay

4 I think 3 is a large part of it. I'll speak to the admins and see what can be done to rid ourselves of such useless feedback.


[1 Points] Insipid_Pedantry:

Leemings do what lemmings do.


[0 Points] Vendor_BBMC:

I assume they do it because they want to. and they can.

Is this a particular issue only with alphabay? Or all markets? If you have a strong ethical code.....maybe....you know? Choose any other marketplace except Alphabay or Applemarket?