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I wanted to come and address the issues we've seen the past week. As you know, we have had all of our public onions attacked with a DDOS. We implemented emergency protocols, which means we have a private URL and sales are disabled. While grossly inconvenient, I was absence for about a week with very unreliable internet. Our internet here is not the most faithful and I was able to briefly get online on the weekend. But again, the connection was not happening again.

We are not exit scamming. We cannot. But we understand there are many opened issues on getting funds out for some people. We want to work with you. This is exactly why we disabled sales because we wanted to minimize the number of opened orders on our system in case something happened. If we were exit scamming, we would not have disabled sales during this time. We did that.

Because I had no way to get on the market, Merlin was in the dark. I did send him a signed message on Friday or Saturday when I was able to get on briefly. Merlin's warning, while not correct (in that we were exit scamming), was not necessarily the wrong thing to do. This is what market staff should do if they suspect a problem to minimize an exit scam or danger. While we do not blame him for sounding a warning alarm, there are some incorrect statements from what I have seen. We don't discuss personell issues publickly but the one thing I will say is that it is not true that he has gone weeks without pay. We feel that we are on track with his pay and I have sent him a message telling him why I think this. This is the one thing I disagree on and I don't know why he has implied that he hasn't been paid in weeks.
Our pay schedule with Merlin was weekly and we paid in advance. For instance, on payday that payment would apply for the upcoming week. We do this so we never owe coin our staff. We pay them in advance for upcoming work. I wasn't able to be online long on Friday but it is my belief that we were already a week ahead with his payment schedule. If I am wrong, then I will gladly acknowledge that and make things right. I have asked him to send me a message regarding this and his pay. But outside of the pay issue, there is no hard feelings for sounding an alarm.
We feel this way because of our belief in making a market unavailable to take coin in escrow.
That was the whole point of our market. And we do wish more staff would be proactive in reporting problems. In this case, it is not correct but the actions were the right ones since he did feel there was a problem. I can assure you that this is not the case however. My main point of contingency is his claim that his pay is behind for weeks. I'm not sure why he has said this but will wait for a response from him.

Now for the business talk. The first priority is to clear out any orders. Because we did halt sales, there are very few orders left in the order queue. There are a couple of non-FE orders that are still in escrow. But not many. There are some buyers who need help with refunds. We will asssit with this.

If you have any order outstanding or funds in escrow, please open a brand new support ticket from your contract. And I will make sure you are able to get your funds. We will not exit scam nor will we even leave your money unavailable. We have been testing the alpha version of TOR to combat the DDOS attacks. But given what has happened, it may not be possible to recover. But my main concern is not the future of Sourcery but of your funds. Let's get things together, open a support ticket and let us get the remaining business closed out.
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Comments


[15 Points] ThrowAwayExpect1234:

You should hire /u/SamCulperTR

Not being sarcastic. Dude worked hard while at TR


[3 Points] mrfloridamolly99:

Funny how all these market PR guys end up as a scapegoat in the end...


[3 Points] eyehole-man551:

Nice, I never used sorcery but I was like aha another exit scam


[3 Points] SamuelCulperTR:

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I am SamCulperTR

Former Dispute, Forum and Support Admin of TR.
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[2 Points] MandyThatGirl:

Chinese Hackers.


[1 Points] dnm69420:

Technically Sourcery literally can't exit scam, there were no funds stored on the site. There was no site wallet or means of depositing money on the site. However if they shut down before sales are completed, some people would lose their stuff. It's sad, it could have been the best site out there but thanks to DDOSers, Jeff Sessions and the U.S. government, it's time to move on to a new technology like Open Bazzar. The days of centralized markets will soon be over.


[1 Points] dnmthrowawayobvious:

This whole thing could have been handled a lot better. There is really nothing that can be done now, /u/merlin_sourcery did the right thing in that most support staff just disappears without a word when their market exit scams. On the other hand moving forward I cant imagine there wouldn't be huge tension between the admins and merlin.


[1 Points] 6I5X7XV17F:

We have been testing the alpha version of TOR to combat the DDOS attacks. But given what has happened, it may not be possible to recover.

What makes you say this? What about these DDOS attacks are making them so difficult to work around?


[1 Points] wayniac33:

hello everybody i was just asked to post this i have no ties to the market sorry sam i cannot help you out there i do wish you the best of luck though!


[-1 Points] JburnaDNM:

Hire me and you won’t have these problems. Haha jk