Grettings DarkNetMarkets,
It is our pleasure to introduce a new market to the community. Minerva strives to be a safe and secure environment for your illicit purchases. We maintain a multi-sig based ordering system that protects the buyers while giving vendors/buyers rapid dispute resolution. Although we are new in the DNM websphere, we have had the market up for 5 months while testing for vulnerabilities and user experience. Take a look at some of our current market points:
- No site based deposits. You pay for each order at the time you confirm your order.
- 2 of 3 multi-signature transactions for buyer and seller protection
- Admin staff available 24 hours a day
- Fast Dispute resolution
- Site efficiency to help lower load times
- Free giveaways (sponsored by vendors and also by Minerva)
- 0% Commission for buyers
- 0% Commissions for vendors (for at least the next 3 months)
- Monthly contest (for buyers and vendors, products/BTC)
- 2 Factor Auth (implemented in the coming days)
- FE Avail for Verified Vendors
- PGP Optional (Mandatory for Vendors)
- Double layered encryption (details held back for opsec reasons but admins are welcome to inquire for more details)
Please feel free to register and check out the market. Feedback is always appreciated. Donations are always welcome as for the entire time it has been funded out of pocket and server fees are pricey. We hope to grow and be the #1 Customer Service oriented DNM. Contest and Giveaways will resume in late May! Thank you for your time and please consider Minerva.
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So it seems that when one goes to order a product, there's a "Shipping" drop-down field that doesn't have any contents. That field is starred ("*") so it's required, and there's literally no way to complete an order because of it. This is the case in every physical item listing I've tried. So, uh, as of right now, you're not actually, you know, a market. You also might want to make the "Quantity" field a drop-down list, specified within limits set by the vendor. What would happen I order 78519327523918570812346927803476234 quantity of some item? Or even just 5, when the vendor doesn't have it? Note that these form problems may be related to the fact that I'm visiting your site with the Tor Browser Security Slider on "High," (as any intelligent person in this scene does without exception), and it's a little worrying that you would have built (and tested) your own market with JavaScript not only enabled, but as an essential component to do something as simple as place an order.
Also, it sucks that you encourage users not to use GPG for their address info and message, and go so far as to re-assure users that their information is "safe" because of your on-site encryption. I'm sure your on-site encryption is great and all, but you really should still be encouraging peeps to use GPG locally to encrypt their info, rather than just take your word for it.
Also, your UI is not optimized for the default Tor Browser window size, which is very important for users' anonymity. You should really figure out a way to get the pages to not have horizontal scrolling within the default Tor Browser window.
A for effort, but as of right now this doesn't look great, and combined with the fact that you have literally zero restrictions on what can be sold on your market, plus encourage users not to use GPG, makes me wonder if your identity or intentions are legitimate.
EDIT: There's also no way to flag a listing, like for something that's mis-categorized. I would recommend adding that, the "Drugs" section already has listings that have nothing to do with drugs.
EDIT2: Why do digital goods have shipping requirements?
EDIT3: You say you've been testing for five months, and basic shit like the above that I discovered in five minutes somehow escaped you? Something doesn't add up.