EDIT: this edit belongs at the top because this is important. If you FE, Good for you, don't boast about it on the review such as "fe for trusted vendor! fe for previous purchases" you can add that you FE'd once you write up a REAL review! , as a matter afact. You don't have to leave a rating and review if you FE. If you decide to FE, don't leave a rating until your product arrived!
A good example of a good review, that wasnt submitted before the Product even arrived:
"Product arrived as advertised, Product lives up to its expections and as advertised, vendor had good communication and is reliable and quick with replying/and shipping the product within 24 hours of ordering, I also FE'd! 5/5
I saw a few posts about this on market reddits a few months ago, not on /r/darknetmarkets I want to address this again for the sake of the community..
Next time I see somebody type in a review saying "FE will update!" I will break my fucking computer!! Here are the reasons why, along with things wrong with this in general!
- They never update their fucking reviews
- It creates false overall ratings for vendors!! 5/5 FE! How the fuck do you rate it 5/5 if you havnt even gotten the product? He could ship you a fucking banana and you give him a 5/5? Holy shit!! Thanks for making the overall rating for a vendor so fucking accurate!!
Why the fuck do you not use escrow? It is literally suppose to help you not get scammed if you get scammed and if shipping fucks up, well, you're fucked.
Please for christ sake, if you do this, STOP, some people actually think READING reviews are important before putting money on the line! I am one of those people!
Some people also FE when its their first time buying from a vendor! LOL! What a joke!
"FE for trusted vendor" okay this is some people's argument, but you never know when a vendor will do an exit scam, it happens so many times. Why even take the risks if you don't have to? Oh you get 10% if you FE? Who cares? The people who FE are only buying 20$ worth of shit anyways. I never see people FE while spending 1+ bitcoin..
edit2: I realize that some people FE for the discounts on vendors who they have experience with. Consider this thread a discussion. Dont feel you have to comment about my post, I'm open to debates. But I'll leave that to you. Some people here have good arguments. But that doesn't change the fact that some of the worst vendors have average of like 4.8 ratings out of 5.
I FE because I view it as an acceptable risk. I only use the same 2-3 vendors and they are FE only and I have a long history with all of them. Possibly one day they will exit scam and I will be out a bit of cash, but you only spend what you are willing to lose. The flipside is that you use escrow and then the market goes down, now the vendor loses money because they shipped your product and won't get their money.
I agree 100% you should not FE for unknown vendors or leave feedback before you receive an order, but to not FE ever would cut you off from a lot of really great vendors.