I've been using darknet for many years and so have a working knowledge of bitcoin, tor, tails, pgp, etc. To be clear, I'm not an expert in any of those fields but I'm comfortable with them all.
I think i've probably used every single one of the popular DNMs at this point. DHL I'd used once before. I really liked their UI and how easy they made it to give them my coins! Everything went fine, that time, as far as payment, shipping and reception of delivery. I had fe'd but after taking a little taste i hopped on within a few hours to give the vendor his due, by way of review. I can't recall now if it was instantly, after logging in and out, or a day later that for some reason my order went from the "Active Order" tab into the nether (where typically it would go to an "Order History" tab. My reviews of the vendor remained but the record of the sale did not. So my account appeared to be fresh, which was just a minor annoyance. I messaged support, I'd post an SS but its encrypted and unreadable. The replied the next day saying they'd look into it but it should appear in my order history tab. I didn't pursue the matter further because it seems kind of trivial. Perhaps it is.
Flashforward to now, months later, as mentioned I wanted to order some MDMA for the holidays (you know, visions of brownsugar-plums and dancing in my head). I placed a modest order with a seemingly reputable vendor and sent the money to DHL's escrow immediately. They made note of receiving the money within minutes and i logged off to allow some time for confirmations to confirm. Logged that night to check status, order showed as "Paid". easy peasy.
The next night I logged in again with a hope and prayer to be seeing it had shipped already. Instead it said "Cancelled by Vendor." Naturally i was perturbed. There was no information why it was cancelled and I'm quite sure i used a pretty standard format for my address, which was encrypted to key in the vendors profile. So I messaged the vendor with the obvious questions and am awaiting a response. not that i'd fault him for not getting back to me yet, its only been a few hours.
So I decide i'll just pull my money out of the market and into one of my wallets until i decide to make my next move. I've never done this with DHL but have with many other markets and have never had an issue. Agora meltdown included :D Their process involves, submitting your receiving wallet address and then signing that address with the pgp key on your DHL account. Did that and am sure there were no mistakes there, I saved a copy of what I sent and have looked at the address a million times since. They say their withdrawl process can take 5min - 8 hrs. fine, no problem but whats got me a bit on edge is this:
on my transaction history is shows the coin moving from Deposit>Market Wallet>Escrow, then Escrow Refund>Account (market account), then "Withdrawal" for the amount I'd intended to withdraw. There is no tx Hash or reference to the address I'd submitted. I'm cool with being patient with the process but there is nothign to indicate whether anything is being processed still or if the transaction is supposedly finished. On the wallet>escrow and escrow refund> account lines are links to the cancelled order. IDK.
So TL:DR... I'm not bashing this vendor for cancelling my order or claiming that DHL has stolen or is stealing from me. Just wondering if anyone has experience withdrawing from them and how that process has went. Anyone have withdrawals on their transaction history that say 'completed' or 'sent' or something similar? Anyone want to talk about Jose Aldo going to sleep last weekend?
edit: I also opened up a ticket with the market edit 2: I posted this 10minutes ago, related or not, xfer just hit my wallet in its entirety. thanks DHL. now i'd just like to know why my order was cancelled in the first place... but srsly thanks DHL!
DHL is like how google use to be. In beta. Just send serious sam a ticket he will fix it.