What the fuck is wrong with alphabay?

When alphabay became the most widely used market, especially after nucleus went down, I don't think there's been a single month without genuinely concerning shit going on. Around maybe my 5th-6th purchase maybe 9ish months ago was for 2 grand in a variety of things, and after it was spent and I had all my orders in, I log in the next day and had almost the exact same amount in btc but all of the vendors still got their money and I got my packs. I just bought the same thing and got twice the product and it happened to many others too.

People put money in and it never transfers, money disappears, it doesn't withdraw, people gain access to the domain somehow and release information, and countless other things in much less than a year. It blows my mind that they haven't exit scammed yet with how sketchy the market is. The only plausible theory I can think of is that they're purposely fucking around like this and not exit scamming, so when sketchy shit happens again nobody will think otherwise because it happens all the time. And one day when everybody's guard is down they actually do it. Does anybody have any legitimate and reliable reasons for even a quarter of this shit? I can't bring myself to even use AB anymore.


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[40 Points] RIP_Meth_9000:

AB is a golden calf $$$$ making machine....Why exit scam when $$$$ just floods in like a meth hoe's orgasm!!!!

The $$$$ Must Flow!!!!

9000


[13 Points] None:

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[8 Points] 25c-nb:

I'm confused, you got $2000 for free and your complaining about it?


[7 Points] murderhomelesspeople:

How many of these accusations even post proof? Very little. You should be taking them with a grain of salt, smaller markets have little in ways of gaining new user but scaring people off the large ones is one way. They see somebody with a problem against AB, they then make a post with a shill account giving the first post and their post more legitimacy. 9/10 times people just see the post as is and don't bother following up to see if anything was resolved. I notice these sort of things seem to happen in bunches so take that as you will.

They do seem to have a lot of issues in the back end. Their crediting system sucks.


[3 Points] DaRealDonaldTrump:

It blows my mind that they haven't exit scammed yet

Your entire post possibly answered your own question.

Why would they exit scam if they can continue providing whatever service they feel and you, among many other, will continue using their product

I can't bring myself to even use AB anymore.

I would stop using something If I got everything I ordered, and my money back as well.


[2 Points] mymuse100:

My guess a combo of scalbility, multiple type of crypto. And a very small team of nomore the 5-10 people. Scaling a site is hard. A site like AB and agora is not ment to exist on Tor its just simply to big. Things like load balancing and such are needed and dont forget they probably care about their opsec. Ie leaky ip , then stolen skimming coins which they probably do anyways


[1 Points] None:

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[1 Points] None:

give it about a week , i am sure you'll have more to add to the long list of complaints . Its like an every week thing


[1 Points] islambolt:

Honestly in your case I would take it as a win. However I have deep rooted hatred for AB, in my opinion there system just doesn't work, they send btc to the wrong people, like in your case. They sometimes won't even let you withdraw your funds, there's countless problems with AB. It's best just to go with hansa more and more vendors are switching there every day, and so are customers.