So I am just looking to see what people are doing now a days. Personally since the whole AB/Hansa clusterfuck I have not bought anything off of a market, I have stuck to my main dudes, I mainly cop Weed/Dabs & Xanax. I have 3 very solid people that I deal with directly.
I have been doing this 2+ years and through multiple markets lost thousands of dollars, and I do not keep money in markets, I deposit and buy, and finalize immediately. People seem to forget that prior to everyone becoming comfortable with AB that markets were the biggest risk to people not personal scams.
My theory is this, I deal with 3 people, they all get paid immediately and for 3 months now it has worked great, in fact without market fees I am saving money, the bottom line is I am willing to risk 500-600 dollars on a vendor hoping he doesn't exit because at ANY moment these markets can do the same thing, and depending on the market or how its infiltrated like Hansa you may be putting yourself at more risk. If a vendor scams, I just lose my $. But I have lost $100 in a DD and probably $4,000 in markets.
I am not here to tell you DD is safe and that it is the best option but at the same time if you consider what has been happening and what my still happen I feel alot safer knowing only 3 people have my info and and only 3 people could steal from me. Escrow will not save you in a market scam and if you FE you might as well DD.
This is just my 2 cents from an OG, curious how ya'll are playing this out, obviously TR and Dream are still pushing mad sales but I don't trust dream for a moment and traderoute looks like a site that you build in HS for your computer class. I would like to see some opinions, the bottom line is THIS WHOLE GAME is a risk, so how are you taking it?
If the vendor has been around longer than the market, or through several markets then the vendor is more trustworthy than the market escrow system.
Scammers gonna scam. And there has not been a single market or concept that has been able to stop that.