SR1 (the king) gets taken down, you all jump on
"Sheep market" - got it, not sketchy at all, admin jacks the escrow and directs all its sheared users to
Tor market - you all obey and it gets slaughtered like a month later. Oh i hear some kids stole the SR flag lets get back on that boat that just sunk a month ago
SR2 - Lightning never strikes twice in the same place rightguyz? right? Oops looks like it wasnt so much of a boat as it was a dingy made out of inflated prophylactics. hey i hear theres this market run by experienced thieves called
Evolution - you all pile on, it topples as predicted, everyone loses their shirt, oh well lets try
Agora - Darknets oldest service btcfog pimps this, we luck out until the admin has to jet, everyone gets their coin back, holy shit a honest market high fives! ok now what, oh hey i hear theres this market run by experienced thieves called
Alphabay - Ahahahahahhahahahaaha. This one has really got ur nuts in a vice NO FE, ahahahahahahahaha yeah thats gonna end well.
Nucleus - We all know youre gonna end up here, you can feel it in your bones, must find the ricketyiest piece of scamming anti-multisig anti-FE cashgrabbiest shitmarket to vend on, you gotta do it, what are you waiting for? Do it, do it now! the nonrefundable vendor bond is going up to $150, what you thought getting robbed was free? Fuck no its $150.
AlphaBay may require new vendors to use escrow until a certain number of sales, but we have FE listings at GWL AlphaBay and so do many other AlphaBay vendors.
As for your remaining words of wisdom: vendors go where the traffic is. You may see a bunch of sheep traveling from one failing market to the next. We see customers. We also budget for exit scams and take pains to minimize our losses if/when a market goes tits-up. We lost about $200 when Abraxas went down, and earned enough during our tenure there to write it off as a business expense.