This is not a place for faith. This is a place for empiricism. The nature of the products and the currency attracts robbers and thieves. Fuck those guys.
We intend here to document and maintain a list of suspicious sellers. These sellers usually follow similar patterns and are usually new account clones of recently banned vendor accounts. Legitimate vendors also follow patterns. The sellers listed here are either scams intent on stealing your bitcoins or are legitimate and can improve their sales and feedback scores by proving themselves legitimate through communication with their customers in this thread or in a dedicated vendor thread. Once proven legitimate they will be removed from this list.
Suspicious sellers:
PILL --- Same posting style as "iplanttrees." Same titles, same listing information. Generic images. Account created same day "iplanttrees" was demoted. Claims to have over 10,000 adderall tablets
Known scammers:
iplanttrees --- vendor account revoked by SR Staff 7/31/12
Typical patterns of fake vendors and general Tips and Tricks:
--Generic or no photos of product. --> Legitimate vendors will usually have pictures of the product next to their usernames with dates.
--Huge/Unlikely numbers of available product --> Most legitimate vendors have a realistic limited supply. Some vendors have virtually limitless supply but they will be old, well known vendors.
--Too good to be true pricing --> Legitimate vendors will price competitively relative to the market price. They can charge this because they are actually selling something and working on margins.
--No feedback --> Legitimate vendors will often send free or at cost samples and/or full orders to established buyers to build up their first feedback. A vendor with zero feedback should be approached with caution. Always buy small from new vendors, they need to prove themselves before they can be trusted.
--Asking to Finalize Early --> Legitimate vendors will only RARELY ask for this. Never ever finalize early unless you are truly resigned to possibly losing your bitcoins. New buyers can find many sellers that will use the escrow system as intended. NEVER FINALIZE EARLY, EVER.
--No communication --> Legitimate vendors will always talk to you. Look at your sent messages in your mailbox and see if they have been read. If they will not communicate with you after asking nicely several times, get SR Staff involved.
Lets clean this place up. Please document suspicious vendors and your evidence in this thread. We will notify the vendor and ask for action on their part. Legitimate vendors can clear their names or prevent listing by simply improving their ads, creating a thread here, and opening up communication with their customers in this public forum.