Potential way to make money or alternatively a method for LE to harvest buyer information?

A few nights ago I was thinking of easy ways to make money. I came up with the idea of setting up a vendor account, but instead of selling drugs myself put up the same listings as other well known and reliable vendors at a slightly higher price and secretly act as a broker without either the buyer or other vendor knowing. Profiting off the small difference in price for pretty much doing nothing. This would only require a small amount of capital to start up and be impossible to get caught selling anything. It is not as though vendors are putting their logo on the packages or leaving any information that could be used to identify them. Alas I am too lazy to do this, but LE could do something similar to this to harvest buyer information. They don't have to be the ones to sell the drugs, but they will have all the buyer's address information if not using a drop with bogus name. With this list of people who are known to have drugs they can use parallel construction to make some busts. Maybe a buyer is also a vendor and now they are on the radar of LE?


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[10 Points] Big_Daddy_Trucknutz:

Any LEO who thinks your "idea" is even remotely clever is retarded. They don't get a big bust to show for their work and by facilitating deals they're actively making the drug "problem" worse so more work for them. 2/10 would not idea.


[2 Points] Homer_Goes_Crazy:

Until the first time there is a problem with shipping or a buyer said he didn't get any product. You're unable to answer the simplest question about when it was shipped, let alone provide tracking information.


[2 Points] skarbowski:

wat??


[1 Points] None:

I came up with the idea of setting up a vendor account, but instead of selling drugs myself put up the same listings as other well known and reliable vendors at a slightly higher price and secretly act as a broker without either the buyer or other vendor knowing. Profiting off the small difference in price for pretty much doing nothing.

A lot of vendors do this. E.g. buying bulk Xanax bars from XanaxKing and then re-selling them. Also, a more risky move is for American vendors to import drugs like MDMA from Europe and then re-sell them domestically.


[1 Points] entactoBob:

I've thought of this as well – never even touch the product; just process the orders. It could possibly work for a while & make money off those new to the Darknet, but in the end I think it would be discovered & the slightly better prices would work out. It's also possible this is in place already.

As to LE, they want vendors, not buyers. If they decided to throw the resources into it, probably a LOT of low-level, unspectacular users of Darknet markets could be pinpointed, but it's not worth it financially/budget-wise b/c of the low ROI and the fact that they wouldn't be able to make the buyers turn evidence as there's nothing linking back to the vendor (assuming they covered their tracks adequately).

Finally, logistically, the "resale price", if you will (markup I guess) would have to be low enough that it would still be relatively attractive to buyers, but high enough to make it worth the time it takes to setup the sales, field messages, & then deal with the actual vendor who may or may not quickly become hip to your plan. They may also order from "rival vendors", as it were, and if they discover your shenanigans, who knows? They might cut you off, out you, or potentially seek revenge (so let's hope you didn't accidentally leave a paper trail).


[1 Points] synikal12:

You're going to have a lot of bitter buyers after they all start realizing their dumbasses could've ordered directly from the vendor for a cheaper price and direct support with the shipper.. -____-