I have been a buyer on the darknet since SR1. Any old school euro buyer who loves hash will remember Atlas2012 and the famous Scurvy Crew from there. RIP Atlas BTW, you we're great.
I've witnessed the downfall of The Scurvy Crew (TSC) and want to leave a definite warning to the newcomers looking to buy some gear on EVO or whatever market they get relegated to eventually. Hopefully if they search a little before they will see the warnings to steer clear of them.
TSC used to have great gear, at great prices, held friendly competitions for nice prizes in the community, tons of followers. Like many actors of the darknet and IRL drug trade, they had their ups and downs. This year though, it all went downhill, and never came back up.
During the summer, they started to have communication and shipping issues. I know my last order, dating July 2nd, has never been received. And then many, MANY complaints started rolling in about missing orders. I had always received from TSC so I gave them the benefit of the doubt.
They told us they we're being targeted by LE and had many packages seized. They told us they moved their operation, which became a next excuse for shipping problems. The next three months, they we're seemingly moving every day or so. So they say. They told us their employees were stealing the packages and the BTC. Then they told us ACE was actually in the hospital all of this time for some heavy shit. They also sprinkled in there a few random stories about ACE overdosing, his dog dying, LE targeting them, etc.
Most infuriating of all, they basically lumped all the people that didn't receive their gear into the scammer category, including their loyal customers. Promised reships to a few, ignored others. Not many people came to confirm that they had received anything.
Then they got banned from SR2, which is a darknet site with a less than stellar track record, so it could be compared to being barred from a horrible grease hole type of bar. You kind of have to force it.
We're in the midst of trying to round up everybody that has been wronged and is on EVO, and we are working to get an archived version of the SR2 thread online to show everybody what the fuck was up at the end. Apparently they had deleted the thread even before SR2 was seized by LEAs, but some people managed to save a backup of the thread, almost to the last post. Until then, if you want more information on The Scurvy Crew because you'd like to buy from them, you can check out these EVO threads: http://i25c62nvu4cgeqyz.onion/viewtopic.php?id=17379&p=10 http://i25c62nvu4cgeqyz.onion/viewtopic.php?id=30221
Up until recently I stayed silent, because I used to be a good customer of theirs and I believed they would turn the situation around. Now, I am not so sure. In fact, I believe they are trying to put this behind them and hide it all. They certainly are NOT trying to make it right for the people who got seriously screwed by them. They also have about 230 transactions on EVO, but only 74 positive feedback and 11 neutral/negative. Meaning they have 145 open transactions waiting on feedback.
New buyers, stay VERY far. This is coming from someone who has sent them many, many BTC directly to their accounts for many years buying a LOT of hash. They HAVE gone south and WILL fuck you over.
But but they sounded so cool in that vice article...