When Will You Guys Realize the Truth About Alphabay?

Never attribute to malice that which is easily explained by incompetence.

Alphabay's backend is coded terribly. It's that simple. Other markets have revealed their bugs and payed out the losses when they've been discovered. Alphabay has been trying to deny that any issues exist at all, simply because they don't know how to fix them.

You have the captcha issue where you're forced to login twice. You have reused bitcoin addresses dumping coin into people's accounts (if they were really scamming, they skim those coins before recycling the address). You have pins that don't match up to their database. Etc.

The Alphabay staff is running around playing damage control on these issues that the admins have no ability to prevent. Trappy pops up in threads asking for the details on issues that have been resolved by moderators because he's using 'scam' reports as bug reports. All you people are showing them with your continued purchases is that if they were to scam, they could get away with it.

Do you know how hard it is to create a codebase that is bug free? Alphabay does.

EDIT: The point is- this shit isn't going to change because Alphabay doesn't know how to fix it.


Comments


[28 Points] DumbVendorQuestions:

Incompetence becomes malice when my money gets involved.


[23 Points] Lucid_Enemy:

About the same time when people claiming scam will learn to provide proof


[8 Points] Iambraves:

Again, I ask. What are some better alternatives?


[7 Points] HofmannsHeir:

Most of us already have, the smart ones anyway. It was when I witnessed first hand how poorly their PR represents them (almost purposely?) along with the consistent shenanigans they seem to pull.

A lot of the complaints have been without proof recently, but in the grand scheme of it, AB complaints have been substantiated and lead all other markets by a long shot. "Where there's smoke, there's fire", and I certainly feel that applies to them.

Now what do I do about it?

I'll point newbies in a different direction mostly. Other than that, I don't use the market. I also don't talk about the market either, which it appears a lot of people (Or a little. I think a significant amount of complaints are crafted by Bruce/his army, but that's a personal hunch) have a problem doing. The more we put their name on the front page, the more attention it attracts to their market.

"Any publicity is good publicity"


[5 Points] why_u_molest_sheep:

Just signed up w/ DHL and Dream. Made my buy on Dream-- quick in n' out, no hassles. It runs well. Don't think I be messing w/ Alpha again, DHL looks pretty cool tho, anybody getting burned over there? Glad there are other options...


[3 Points] screwstondabber:

IMO, AlphaBay is probably run by people from different parts in the world. Not in one location. And I myself work where I have to talk to programmers in India and Pakistan because they're cheap and for the most part smart fuckers. But TO ME, AlphaBay has a very low intelligence, well, a fucking low OPSEC intelligence. I know with the money they're making, I could assemble them a fucking badass team to build their security system like the goddamn China Wall. And no, no goddamn Mongolians will tear down that wall lol, but hey just my opinon don't mind me.


[2 Points] travelghost:

The capcha thing really bugs me. Log in >> dDOS capcha >> Log in again


[2 Points] earthmoonsun:

ab doesn't need to care because there are always enough sheep who just focus on a nice design above anything else


[1 Points] learntehtruth:

why would i want to learn the truth, lets be honest here


[1 Points] ThisIsNotMarc:

Scambay


[1 Points] freeelchapo:

yeah its beginning to sink in, the scamming and such of the internet/dnms takes some getting used to.


[1 Points] cutthelineson:

thats a good question, I think it takes some time for someone to grasp all the scammy things on the interwebs


[1 Points] lightsnotlinesdrunk:

im going to have to refer back to steve for this one eric.


[1 Points] None:

It's just that there are so many god damn truths about Alpha bay that I just decided to stop realizing them all because it's a pain in the ass. It's easier to hand roll a joint of sticky indica bud.


[1 Points] justpassinbuy:

I stick to Dream only use AB for one vendor personally until he moves to Dream.


[1 Points] c_o_c_a_i_n_u_m:

Yeah alphabay had a very terrible layout as well before the current one. They just don't know what they're doing.


[1 Points] throwoverthetowel:

how long has AB been scamming now in ur opinion?


[1 Points] Agorahooaway:

The only vendor out of over 4k of orders on ab that hasn't sent my pack would be the producer. The day I signed up for ab, I also signed up for Nuc, I got scammed on my second order there and fucking auto finalize after 3-4 days????? That is what keeps me off Nuc. I'd love to find a place that has some of my fav vendors on AB on a better site. But that's sorta impossible at this point. Is there any other sites with good vendors for alp powder, fent hcl nasal, fent hcl powder, flubro smarties, other goodies for a good price?


[1 Points] vendor_bestbuy:

Pulled out 2k from AB today, no prob


[1 Points] sullyrb:

alphabay is a scam, theyre still letting TheRightStuff is still scamming a week later, 60+ got. mods refusing to answer on the forum


[1 Points] throwaxanny:

when you stop posting here every fucking day about it


[1 Points] Obamaplug:

Welcome world!!! Ready for the real?


[1 Points] DarkC0de101:

TeamDarkc0de™ #OpAlpha: Boycotting Alphabay

Join #OpAlpha and revolt against the new leaders of the market.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AlphaBay/comments/3zt5zy/update_teamdarkc0de_top_12_alphabay_carding/

They are hiding under a wave of "phishing" to steal money from the poorest of the poor...

Boycott AB, Until they change the situation and stop robbing us.


[0 Points] 2000layers:

Isn't the point of them forcing you to login twice, while redirecting you to reddit, to protect the site from DDOS attacks? I'm pretty sure this has been stated before.