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Market => Rumor mill => Topic started by: Geyser on January 23, 2012, 07:06 am
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I have not purchased from him/her yet, but I would like to buy a few things from them. Can someone let me know of their good / bad transactions with them?
I can't find much besides random mentions in the search, correct me if I'm wrong please as I would love to read them.
Thanks for the help and further support of reviewing this seller.. which needs to be done considering the massive amounts of listings they have.
http://silkroadvb5piz3r.onion/index.php/silkroad/user/112404/
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dunno about fred but we need a BENZO sticky badly!
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also made a purchase for the xanax special he had. hasnt been marked in transit yet.
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im on the middle of transaction with fred and feeling very good about it. im tracking it in delhi india currently and should enter us in a day or 2. im liking the guy but the product will tell the real tale. if its good then what an affordable benzo source relative to the rest of SR.
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Bought his customer appreciation deal on Sunday. He asked me to pre-finalize because of my location and told me I assume all risks. I'm assuming he just stuck a stamp on an envelope and sent me the blisterpacks that way. I'm hoping not, but we'll give it a couple weeks to see.
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Fred's Legit! :) Got my stuff under a week, and everything works as advertised. He is now my go-to guy for all future pharm purchases.
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Hi,
another thread about me, glad to see i am being talked about :)
glad you are happy with your tabs powerbuddy
subdude, i expect your item to arrive mon/tue
obama, your item is in transit
chaxchax, your item has been sent EMS just like every other item we send.
regards
Fred
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another thread about me, glad to see i am being talked about :)
People love your prices. It's pretty tempting.
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In my opinion, had great communication. Patient and helpful.
My order is processing from Feb 4th.
It is my FIRST purchase on SR, so have no idea whether this is a good sign or bad sign.
Just want to track, be home for the delivery, and sign without incident.
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Got my stuff in from fred today after a missed delivery last week. everything seems legit, will update on quality.
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HOLA Fred,
I placed my order a full 12 days ago and it hasn't even shipped yet. You have been PROMISING ME a tracking number since Monday. It is now Thursday and it hasn't even shipped yet. Gonna be 14 days sooon and no shipping yet.
It should have been here given 7-10 days from India
Help a bruther out. If you make a promise, you gotta keep it.
What does the board think? I think I should get bonus tabs and a shipment sent out today for being so patient and not flaming him so far.
Hi,
another thread about me, glad to see i am being talked about :)
glad you are happy with your tabs powerbuddy
subdude, i expect your item to arrive mon/tue
obama, your item is in transit
chaxchax, your item has been sent EMS just like every other item we send.
regards
Fred
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Great price for 100 Diazepam tablets and the EMS shipping worked fine. It took a long time for the shipment to show up in the online tracking system but after that it was at my local post office in no time.
The pills do rattle in the blister packs. The postal clerk shook her head as she said to me, "It's too bad meds are so expensive in this country that we have to order them from overseas."
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I messaged him on SR asking if he'd change his ways of shipping. Never responded. =/
If I were selling (which I'm not, and never will) and were FtB I'd take the pills out of the blister packs, put them against something sticky, cover that with a letter, and add in an empty blister if people want proof they're legitimate. Then I'd cover that some type of tissue paper (everyone always says black, but I think any color will do) just in case it's ripped open or there is a hyper-aggressive do good customs agent wanting to take a peak inside. Take an extra few minutes to do sure, but he could easily charge $2-3 more for the extra cost of the tissue paper and time to pop the pills out of the blisters.
This is literally my own untested opinion. I've never shipped anything of this nature domestic or international but this is how I would do it.
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In my opinion, had great communication. Patient and helpful.
My order is processing from Feb 4th.
It is my FIRST purchase on SR, so have no idea whether this is a good sign or bad sign.
Just want to track, be home for the delivery, and sign without incident.
1:30 p.m. what was lost in my first shipment was replaced by Fred The Baker. Great customer service on this first order, he kept his WORD!
Now, I have to figure out what is happening to my second shipment. I will keep the board posted.
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In the middle of a transaction with fred now. He promptly provided me with a tracking number and marked in transit on March 1st.
But item still isn't appearing in tracking system so we will see and i will update.
Fred has been very good communications wise.
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In the middle of a transaction with fred now. He promptly provided me with a tracking number and marked in transit on March 1st.
But item still isn't appearing in tracking system so we will see and i will update.
Fred has been very good communications wise.
I'm in the same type of situation. It took 3 days to even get my item shipped, and it has been 6 days since it was "shipped" (quotes because, well, people lie) and the tracking number still won't show up on any of the sites it should including the Indian origin site. Fred said it was because of the Easter Holiday, that Indian post offices were closed from Thurs-Sun.
This would have been something nice to put in their profile so people would know in advance of placing an order that for at least 3-4 days their package would be sitting in some post office doing nothing. I'm quite disappointed because the quoted time of 7-10 business days to the US is absolutely bullshit, even if my order hadn't coincided with the Easter Holiday. If it took 3 days to even ship in the first place, it is unlikely it would get all the way across the World and through customs to my mailbox in 4-7 days.
I would have definitely ordered from a different vendor if I had known how untrue the shipping quote was and how slowly the vendor even gets the products shipped in the first place. I could have ordered from brownpurple31 and paid a bit more, but I would have had product before Fred even decided they would get around to putting my package in the post.
Fred, please either change your shipping quotes in your profile to something more accurate, or find a way to actually deliver packages within that time frame. When I clicked the order button, and paid for the product, I fulfilled my end of the bargain. So far I've been the only one of the two to keep my word, implied or otherwise.
Hopefully this is uncharacteristic, but first impressions are important and especially on decent sized orders. This buy could go either way, but as of now I would not recommend or use Fred in the future. I'd need some type of assurance that I'd have my order shipped in a timely and honest manner that is consistent with the claims made within their seller profile. If you quote 7-10 days to the US, that means you will deliver a package possibly as soon as a week, but no later than 10 days. That's kinda the whole point of a range of values: you have the values from each extreme of shipping times. If 10 days isn't your upper limit, and you find your packages take up to 3 weeks or more (look at feedback, this is not uncommon to see with a Fred order), you need to quote the ACTUAL upper limit of 3 weeks or whatever it happens to be.
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in the same boat.
7 days later tracking number still doesn't work. he said it would be working in 48hrs tho...
see how we go.
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Has anyone that isn't an obviously newly created or existing shill account for FredtheBaker received anything they've ordered lately from him? 4-5 days ago the tracking number was supposed to show up in "48 hours" and about 2-3 days ago it was only going to take "24 hours" to show up in the tracking system. Fred basically gave me a dummy tracking number with the correct country codes. As far as I know, there is no evidence even 10 full days after the item was allegedly shipped that any item at all is coming my way. Neither the origin nor the destination country site could find any record of my shipment, or that the tracking number is even real.
Wanting to get this taken care of without needing to use the resolution center if possible. Fred, why don't you get in here and answer to all of these kind people? I know you are aware of this thread as I linked you it in a message when I made my last post in here. You commented on something I wrote in the message, so I know you've read at least one post in this thread without replying or even attempting to make up such ridiculous excuses on a public forum as you are prone to do in private messages.
If you make a claim here in public that the tracking number will show in X hours, everyone will be able to see without a doubt that after X, Y or Z hours the tracking number still hasn't shown as you've kept reassuring. Telling someone a bullshit time period so they will just leave you alone for at least that many hours is a very dishonest and frustrating way to buy yourself more time. If your shipping is so slow you need to find dishonest means to cover up the laughable shipping times in actuality, maybe you need to focus on better shipping? It took 3 days to even "ship" my package, if it has been shipped at all. A domestic vendor would have had the order to my door in the time it took Fred to even get around to putting my order in a damn mailbox.
Has Fred came through for any of you on orders placed around the 1st of April or so? If not, describe your situation in here too, hopefully we can get Fred to answer and own up to some of their actions and inaction.
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I made an order today with Fred. I will post my experiences when things start to happen! =D
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I'm having some problems with fred too, I ordered about 10 days ago to Europe, the items was shipped pretty fast but the tracking number simply doesn't show up on ANY website, and trust me I've tried them all.
The package should have been here by now ( for example, a package from Thailand arrived here in 4 days, and that's even further away from where I live ), and basicly there is no evidence there is anything on it's way to me.
I've tried PM'ing fred about this 2 times now, but still haven't gotten any answer. If the tracking number doesn't show up within 2 days, I'll have to resort to the resolve option, cause right now there is no evidence at all the package has been sent.
EMS track reports should say something in the lines of this:
.. packet leaving India
.. packet entering your Country
.. packet entering sorting center
.. packet leaving sorting center
.. packet handed over to customs
.. etc
but nope, the tracking number he gave just says the package doesn't exist, and it's weird that it takes this long to show up on the website ( even with the easter holidays ).
anyway, I hope things get sorted out cause I would have loved to receive that package instead of having to ask for a refunds. :(
Anyone else with this problem?
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order 160$ worth of xanax bars lets see how long it takes...
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Just for the record.
Use the tracking URL Fred posts in his response. Do not try to track it through the standard commercial site. If you do, it will never show up. His URLS, especially the Indian one, until it hits the US will show you details, and once it lands in the US, you can track from the US URL he provides. I noticed that as well, even though it looked sketch.
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Just for the record.
Use the tracking URL Fred posts in his response. Do not try to track it through the standard commercial site. If you do, it will never show up. His URLS, especially the Indian one, until it hits the US will show you details, and once it lands in the US, you can track from the US URL he provides. I noticed that as well, even though it looked sketch.
I've used the urls fred provided and many others.
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Hi,
we supply tracking urls for the counties we send to.
it will always show up on the Indian link first, then a couple of days later it will show up on the other links weather it be usps or parcelforce.
We have sent emails to all our customers explaining that last week we have had problems with EMS in India, half the orders went out and half are still stuck.
You guys think it is so easy, but u do not know what goes on behind the sceens to make sure all orders pass through Indian customs.
All I can say is we only deal in escrow so your money is always safe, we never rip any1 off, we always do our best to keep our customers happy.
We offer 100% refund or reship to certain countries, not many vendors do that.
We are only human and sometimes things go wrong but we always make things right, our feedback shows that.
All I ask is relax and enjoy your pills when they arrive :)
best regards/
Fred
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Hi,
we supply tracking urls for the counties we send to.
it will always show up on the Indian link first, then a couple of days later it will show up on the other links weather it be usps or parcelforce.
We have sent emails to all our customers explaining that last week we have had problems with EMS in India, half the orders went out and half are still stuck.
You guys think it is so easy, but u do not know what goes on behind the sceens to make sure all orders pass through Indian customs.
All I can say is we only deal in escrow so your money is always safe, we never rip any1 off, we always do our best to keep our customers happy.
We offer 100% refund or reship to certain countries, not many vendors do that.
We are only human and sometimes things go wrong but we always make things right, our feedback shows that.
All I ask is relax and enjoy your pills when they arrive :)
best regards/
Fred
Since you only ever read the first few lines, fred: care to tell us how you are able to so certainly assure us that our packages are held up in customs in India when the dummy tracking numbers you gave out have still yet to even show any sort of acceptance at any Indian post office whatsoever? "Sorry No information is available. The item details may not have been received into our tracking system yet. Please try again later" is the exact message that appears when using the Indian link you provided. The same message appears when entering a fake tracking number into the system.
You even admitted in one message that you only read the first 3 lines of one message I sent you, a very important message from my POV as a buyer. And it showed, too, because you didn't answer any of the questions at all. I'm trying to ask you questions to gauge whether I've been selectively scammed or if things are legitimately slowed down and you aren't helping your appearance by ducking and dodging legitimate questions. If you say with certainty my package is stuck in X place or Y place, be prepared to provide proof when I ask you how you came to that conclusion. If the tracking number you gave me has behaved like a phony tracking number from day 1 with zero updates, yet you claim to have located my package like some postal wizard, don't be shocked that I ask for the information you used to come to that conclusion.
You expect us to relax and wait SEVERAL WEEKS, but you don't even have the patience to read through a message for 2 minutes? I should add how comical it is asking someone waiting on their Valium they expected a week ago to "relax." Do you not remember what each of those products you sell does, or was that a joke in poor taste? It is more likely you just don't know what your customers ordered because you don't really see a name on the orders, you just see the rupees. Not a bad strategy if you don't care for repeat customers.
I'm unable to stop myself from laughing when I read something like: "We are only human and sometimes things go wrong but we always make things right, our feedback shows that." How do you propose you make right a situation in which you've: lied to me on several occasions, ignored me and refused to reply to even simple questions, grossly exaggerated your shipping times, and failed to deliver a timely order so spectacularly I am forced to place a duplicate order with a domestic vendor just to cover the shipment you failed to ship correctly? Extra product? Nope. My envelope is supposedly sealed and waiting in some corrupt, dirty Indian customs office. Refund? Ha! By the time the resolution center does anything worthwhile you will have shipped an actual package and made that impossible by providing the now working tracking number (isn't that how all the good selective scammers work these days, fred?). The only positive thing I'll walk away with from this is a newfound sense of domestic pride after having seen how they do business in India.
The most confusing thing is that you fed us this line of shit about how the signing for packages thing was necessary because you had to use EMS since the Indian postal system was so unreliable. If this is about the unreliable Indian post offices, why is the package I'm signing for so I don't have to go through the unreliable Indian postal system stuck in a damn post office in India? Seems a bit unnecessary to have to sign for the packages if we are having to deal with the terrible Indian postal system, anyway.
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Same shit here...
I posted in his "official thread", I'll post it in here to warn others as well:
My review so far on my experience:
Order placed
Item marked sent 5 days after, tracking number provided.
Advised vendor tracking number invalid, was advised that "it would show up soon" on multiple occasions up until 12 days after item was marked sent and tracking number provided.
17 days after the order and 12 days after a tracking number which never showed up, the vendor extended Auto-finalize by 10 days.
Vendor advises that if the tracking numbers have not shown up the item is still in the host country.
Have requested a tracking number when item is located/sent.
So, after being advised of a 5 day shipping time, some 18 days later I have nothing to suggest the item was sent, let alone have the item.
As mentioned the waiting period has been extended and a valid tracking number requested.
*Will update thread as appropriate*
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ordered a week ago... bit slow to west coast... will report on quality and shipping time.
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To anyone thinking of placing an order with fred, I'd highly recommend holding off until we figure out if the half of the "Easter" orders (that never were received and don't appear to be shipped) were genuinely slowed down or if this is an elaborate selective scam. When half of your orders make it as planned yet the other half that went through the same system all appear as having never existed, the chances are high that they never were shipped. What delay would only affect half of the packages? What delay would cause the packages to have never been entered into any system? Anyone that has shipped an item with a tracking number knows you have the tracking number before you ship it, and the tracking number is scanned into the system as soon as it is RECEIVED or ACCEPTED. To me, this says that no post office ever received the packages with the fake tracking numbers given out to us.
Every vendor fucks up occasionally, and sometimes the post does lose track of things, but to lose track of HALF the shipments sent?! Anyone familiar with calculating probability probably laughed at the mere suggestion that HALF of a vendors shipments all face the same issue of seemingly not-existing. It is highly improbable that a post office would lose so many packages from the same vendor, when the failure rate is somewhere around 1% or lower. Which is more likely, that one vendor happened to be so terribly unlucky that half of the items they shipped were lost, or that a vendor decided to scam half of their customers? Sorry, but I'll trust the postal system over some Indian pill peddler any day. Especially seeing as the postal system hasn't consistently lied to me in private messages and ignored the ones they didn't want to respond to.
Order from them if you want to, but be careful and make sure to monitor how this situation with them fucking up HALF of the orders shipped turns out. If they make things right with all the angry people they've went out of their way to screw these last few weeks, then it would be safe to say they are worth the risk of ordering from in the future. If you feel like paying somebody to deliver some pills to your door, you may want to be sure that they don't already have a massive amount of missing shipments and non-existent shipments still outstanding. At this point in time, fred appears to have both.
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Fred shipped my Easter order, although it took a while. It arrived at customs. however this time its stuck there since 5 days? Usually it clears in 2 days! I am a little paranoid now.
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Since I've been updating with the negative status updates of the transaction, it is only fair to update with positive progress as well. While this order has still been (and currently is) a nightmare, the tracking number at least started behaving like I have a package on the way. While there is no positive side to my order I placed on April 1 still being in India for an undetermined amount of time, at least I know a package exists and I've not been the victim of a selective scam.
While I would still recommend waiting until the backlog and messed up orders get fixed by fred, I wouldn't recommend not ordering because of worries about them being a scammer. While I still feel fred is mostly responsible for these mess ups (even if they had nothing to do with it, you don't ignore buyer messages and leave important questions unanswered). Fred may not be a scammer, but they sure as hell communicate and behave like one. This order came dangerously close to becoming a refund simply because there was little to no communication that wasn't an obvious mass reply to many buyers that never answered the questions posed in the messages sent.
For future reference fred, please note that if a buyer is so bothered by something that they take the time to compose a somewhat lengthy message, they will most certainly be insulted when you reply that you've only read the first 3 lines. To me that says, "your concerns and the time you took composing this message are not important enough for me to spend 2 minutes reading your message in full."
Hopefully I just ordered at the wrong time and got unlucky waiting in a customs queue. If fred doesn't mind whiny buyers like myself, I would likely place another order in the future (although far in advance this time), if only to give the vendor a chance to show their true colors. I find it hard to believe someone with such reputation and positive feedback wasn't just out of their element for this order. I also hope fred understands that no venom was intended for them personally, it is just that buyers are constantly having to balance the anxiety of wondering whether or not they have been scammed or are in the process of being scammed. Things are a lot different than the real World where you have insurance policies against scammers: I prefer the Beretta or Smith and Wesson policies, myself.
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ordered 4/9
shipped 4/14
showed up in tracking 4/21
Will update as package moves
form the looks of it fred is a legit vendor and had some issues with the holiday
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Now that package is moving I decided to FE. I'm sure Fred will take care of me if the package gets hung up somewhere.
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package still moving, just made it to US customs
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ordered: March 30, 2012, 5:46 am UTC
shipped: April 4, 2012, 10:20 am UTC
tracking number still does not show up in system.
Refund given but still would like to know what happened and if delivery is reliable again.
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waiting on my product. will update when I get it. Tracking did show up after a few days.
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package has cleared customs and has been handed over to usps. will update when it lands.
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got em. great packaging and product. thanks fred
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Got only 20 of the 100 pills and my package was opened will update when I get the rest of the product.
Contacted seller and Fred said he would ship the rest ASAP.
Thanks man!
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If you people don't like worrying about customs but still enjoy his products, you should politely suggest that he get a reshipper in a non-developing country :)
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Fred just shipped me my two orders, Nandrolone 50mg/ml 15 Amps, and 1000 tablets of Oxymetholone. What are the chances that my package will be seized at US customs? How many items out of 10 get seized by US customs approximately(if you know)? Does Fred use stealth gear? I'm really worried about this, it's a nightmare...I really need these medications. Anyone?
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seems Fred has a good record to the US, just sit back and relax until the packlage has been stuck in customs for a while. He will reship as stated in his policy
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Mods, maybe we should close this thread and just leave the official fredthebaker review thread open. losts of double posts, myself included