I vend on TMP and another centralized escrow site for 4 months now, i dont want to say what i vend but its fairly popular and theres not too much competition. I got onto TMP after all the markets began crashing but still decided to get onto the other centralized site just because i couldnt put all my eggs together. At first i was getting about the same amount of orders through both sites, and TMP was often ahead, but as the months have gone on my orders on the other site has skyrocketd while orders on TMP....well i get about 1 a week (id use to get about 20 a week).
Im trying to see this froma buyers perspective and even though multisig is only a few extra steps i see why buyers dont bother with it, they dont gain anything from doing it and it requires local software to do which in the age of web2.0 is alien to people, i think most buyers coins never even touch their computers. Also they can use a clearnet site to generate keys, it seems sketchy unfamiliar and all those random blocks of code are scary to buyers, they like buttons not keys.
If TMP went down tomorrow i dont think anyone would bother to try to find me and figure out how to finalize it, i dont think i would even know how even if someone walked me through it. I figure my coins are lost just as much as a centralized site, but at least the admin didnt steal them, so im left wondering why cant we have it both ways, why cant buyers not deal with keys and codes and clients and have their simple pushbutton solution they already know, and why cant we vendors also have a mutlsig between us and the admin that keeps them from stealing?
I think this is called 2-of-2 multisig, id be more than happy with this solution as a vendor and though i might still lose my escrow money id be happy knowing that it wasnt because someone else took it, and of course id be happy for the buyer who can still get their drugs without having to do extra work for me.
Why dont we have a market like this?
I've really tried TMP, but i2p just sucks. I can't ever stay on long enough to complete anything, so it's a waste of time. Escrow is nice, but it can be an illusion of safety. Escrow doesn't guarntee you'll get what you wanted. Your best bet imo is to pick your vendor carefully, and not risk more than you can afford to lose. At a vendor's request I checked out the BlackBank market and I was very impressed. Very fast, nice layout and easy multisig escrow. Maybe check that out