"I like the FedEx driver, because he's a drug dealer, and he don't even know it." -Mitch Hedberg
Greetings,
Long time listener, first time caller.
I was wondering which one of the above markets would be better for me to open a shop on. I'm reading various forums and am trying to come up with a list of pros and cons. I don't want to open on two marketplaces simultaneouslty since I'd be more of a boutique reseller of pharmaceuticals and can only get X amount of substance per month.
*Evo: seems to be up more with more admin presence, search bar works better, multisig
*Agora: seems to get more business, down every few weeks or so, not a lot of admin presence
I appreciate any advice you can bestow upon me.
"The club owner here hooks me up with drugs, like cocaine or pot brownies. But last time I was in town he gave me a drug for attention deficit disorder, because he's afflicted. But I'm not, so what happened to me was I suddenly had an extra-long attention span. People would be telling me a story, then the story would end and I'd get all mad and shit. "Come on man, there's gotta be more to that story!" - Mitch Hedberg
There's an admin presence, it's not like the site runs on autopilot. It's just that they're smart enough to stay silent on all but the most urgent emergencies; even the recent 24-hour downtime didn't merit a word from them. Agora has more of the big-time vendors. Their higher vendor bond (1.5 BTC vs 0.5 BTC for Evo) is designed to deter scammers and to get larger vendors who will turn into long-term players. The Agora vendor bond is fully refundable too.
Evolution has the better design and new vendors are forbidden from doing FE-only. Multisig is pretty meaningless though, you can ask any vendor, almost no one uses it. Evolution also probably has the bigger target on its back, because it's a free-for-all. It just made Brian Krebs' website today for people selling TurboTax accounts. And then there are the conspiracy theories about who runs Evolution... which I'm not going to get into.