How many listings does AlphaBay actually have? Their site numbers seem to be off.

OK, here is something to try. Look at the left navigation on Alphabay under Drugs > Cannabis > Topicals You will see the number 62 (as of this writing), implying there are 62 listings.

Now go to this URL: http://pwoah7foa6au2pul.onion/search.php?s_ltype=0&cat2=on&cat17=on&cat135=on&s_stock=1&pg=1

This search says we don't care whether the vendor is active or not, but we only want to see things in stock. We also don't care about all the other search criteria.

You will see 15 listings on the first page and 6 on the second. 21 total.

Now go to this URL: http://pwoah7foa6au2pul.onion/search.php?s_ltype=0&cat2=on&cat17=on&cat135=on&s_stock=0&pg=1

This changes the search to allow items that are out of stock. You will see 10 listings here all different from the previous search. Strangely, I couldn't seem to get it to show me both in-stock and out of stock items all together.

21+10 = 31. That turns out to be 62/2. I thought maybe Alpha was double-counting, but checking some other categories and they don't follow that pattern. It would also mean all the left nav numbers would be even.

I've tried various combinations of changing the search terms and tweaking the querystring, but I don't ever seem to be able to get listings to match the numbers in the left navigation.

It seems that Alpha is either inflating their numbers, or the numbers represent historical listings and not current listings.

Any ideas?


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[1 Points] drkntmrkets:

Trappy explained the reasoning for this in a thread a while back I'm sure, unfortunately I can't remember what it was and his old acc has since been suspended:(

/u/Trappy_AB - care to explain again?


[1 Points] alphabaysupport:

The small numbers beside the categories indicate the total number of listings but include the inactive ones. Results are limited to 100 pages. To be "active" and appear in the search results, a listing must have:

As of now, the total number of listings in the "active" category, thereore buyable, is 60,704.


[1 Points] vvaaded:

there is an extremly simple way to know: