When you go to a new market, how do you deal with what I coined "rep-lag"?

Since the Ag is going down, I was wondering what your guys stance is on the rep wipe situation. I know that a lot of people had a lot of purchases and probably a good rep and it's kind of disappointing to have to start over for each market.

A lot say it is good OpSec to use a different handler for each market, and if that is the case it is truly difficult to deal with reputation lag.

I've thought of 3 solutions.

1) - Pgp veri - while this may work for some it's not my personal favorite for the following reasons. First unless the people you are dealing with had your public, it really makes no difference, and anyone could post a new pub and it would checksum, but it makes no verification. Also, this is similar to using the same handler - a piece of linking information.

2) The vouch system. While this is good in certain respects, unless you have someone with rep vouching for you it really doesn't speak volumes.

3) Linked handlers. In theory there really isn't too much wrong with this, since a pub key and handler could be verified by third party with crypto for the most part intact. Some say that it is easier to be phished like this, but in my experience this is statistical tug of war rather then real world exploit. Not saying phish doesn't happen, especially when migrating, but it can be mitigated by true U checking.

Now of course this is different when you are dealing with a vendor that one had dealt with in the past on a different market, and what I call 2-step verification can occur. But a new market, new vendor, and lack of credentials kind of sucks.

I know a lot had this problem with 1.0


Comments


[1 Points] WhonixNSA:

I don't use other markets when my main market is down. I generally just contact any vendors via E-mail that I want to use and try do off-site deals, I'm confortable doing this with a few vendors.

One of the reasons I don't use other markets when mine is down is because of rep lag and what I call refugee lag as well!


[1 Points] None:

I don't use markets, but isn't the point of having a public/private key combo that you can verify your identity independent of any one website's database suddenly disappearing? Just PGP sign a message, or, if the vendor doesnt know how to do that, just have them decrypt a simple message.

if you do re-use screen names, make sure you don't reuse passwords! you can bet your bottom bitcoin that as soon as agora comes back, nucleus or alphabay will be running all the username/password pairs they have against agora's log in.


[1 Points] KeystoneSoze:

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[1 Points] Vendor_BBMC:

Vendors don't care how many purchases you've made.

Its not important.

Unlike having to start from scratch with customer feedback for the 5th time.


[1 Points] sdfhgdhjbdafcadv:

Won't the vendor know you're the same person when he decrypts the address (assuming you're a regular customer)?