The title says it all! I am curious about anyone who has used a vendor specific site. I know that bungee54, farmer1, The Armory, Glasswerkz, and even TMG kind of falls into a direct vendor>buyer relationship category. Yea most of these end up in scams, but I am sure there are a few operating honestly in this market downtime. So help a brother out, give me some stories. I know HUGS looked into compiling these types of pages about 9 months ago, but I am looking for more recent information.
If you're going to post links, don't. The best way to tell your fellow users where you found a vendor's address is to explain your path, whether you've used grams, or the vendors profile page from a market. I do not want anyone getting phished for being curious!
FYI I am exploring Glasswerks site, but have not seen any reports. Link can be found on GramsFlow if you search his PGP key. Also available via his Agora page.
The Armory is an unconfirmed scam. Lots of people trying to buy stuff and never one report of anybody actually receiving anything.
What they say happens is The Armory will suggest a 3rd party escrow site and it all seems legit. But the escrow site is itself a scam and in on the whole deal. They take your money and hold it for a couple weeks so it looks good. But then all of a sudden after you've sent 3 dozen emails trying to get a hold of the seller because it still hasn't arrived, they'll release the funds saying the terms have been fulfilled when they obviously haven't.