An article was posted 2 days ago, which talked about how the current state of all the DNM has led some vendors to open personal P2P.
Arguably this MIGHT be the future of DarkNet purchases. Eliminating the possibility of exit scam, benefits both the buyer and the seller. Middle man and transaction fees are also being eliminated, with the user being able to send the BTC straight to the seller's wallet.
Although disputes and problems regarding the purchase will have to resolved by both parties.
What do you fellas think? Will this become the standard for evolving and successful vendors or is it just a temporary solution to the unstable state of the DNM?
If they're going P2P they should use OpenBazaar2: it has built in ability for selecting multi-sig escrow agents, it's impossible to DDOS, it has a slick UI, and is open source (so you can inspect the code and verify there are no backdoors or keyloggers or sh*ts), runs under TOR, has a search interface so potential customers can find your shop. It also has reviews (for vendors AND for customers! You can rate your customers on their conduct!)
Your shop will have an OB2 URL that looks something like this: ob://98r0u23289238u4293ur8239r8u23r Just distribute this URL in your advertising material for your shop, and let people know they paste that URL once they've downloaded Openbazaar2.