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Market => Rumor mill => Topic started by: Caparino on May 11, 2012, 04:07 pm
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And then BOOM! Instead of saving money from the sales, I'd say we collectively lost WAY more BTC than we saved, within a few short weeks. Shortly thereafter, all of the best vendors disappeared due to either going, allegedly getting hacked or allegedly getting caught. The LSD market has gone down the shitter with the exception of 3jane and their awesome prices. Vendors are now less trustable, buyers are now more suspicious (I for one never take my tin foil hat off while I'm on here). Half of the reported LSD bought is now claimed to be either bunk or RC's.
And in the end, all of this could've been prevented by not Finalizing Early... but it's still shitty. I want my early late march/early april SR back! >:(
-Cap
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It's still here. Just be patient and all this bullshit will subside.
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Patience... it's one thing us junkies lack 8)
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SR during 4/20 was at its peak. People getting free shit left and right.
And I would say it was at its darkest the week after when the Tony situation came clear. And it looked like Noriega had scammed too.. he's still a bit sketchy in my eyes but at least he's sending out some orders.
But it's getting better. People are just suspicious as fuck now. Once we've all got a few more escrow transactions under our belt the faith will probably come back.
But man.. posting on here in the week after 4/20 was depressing as fuck.
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I have got to agree with the original poster, this place seems to have taken a nose dive ever since the 4/20 sale. It's a shame because I love SR and the community here on the forums but if things continue to go along as they have been this place looks as if it will implode!
I hope everything gets resolved shortly and things get back to pre 4/20 SR!
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Patience... it's one thing us junkies lack 8)
I thought people who took LSD were 'enthusiasts' not junkies ;)
Anyway I think shitstorm 2012 is on it's way out and this place is starting to settle again.
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But guys, what if the whole Tony76 'scam' was just SR admins posing as a vendor and then scamming and paying for all the prizes and goodies they gave away?
*Removes tin foil hat*
SR Sucks domestic UK since 4/20, that's all I can say for sure.
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Even though I won a prize during the 420 sale and saved a few pennies also I'd happily give that up to have the less chaotic, less paranoid and the more trustworthy SR back.
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I found this place beginning of March after hearing about it a lot of from a close friend.
It was awesome, I hadn't seen such an true, awesome drug market that people could be confident in.
The 4/20 sale was coming around, and I just lost my job, so I couldn't participate in the sale, which I was bummed about, but I remember seeing a lot of vendors requiring finalizing early, and i had just gotten scammed on finalizing early and just lost my job.
The LSD market on here wasn't too good before 4/20, but since then its definitely slowly gone down even more.
I came here for pure MDMA though, something tough to get where i live. And there's a lot of cool vendors who sell some good MDMA, so i'll just keep rolling until i see some good L for a good price.
I just wish i could get bitcoins together for 3janes blotters!
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I thought people who took LSD were 'enthusiasts' not junkies ;)
Anyway I think shitstorm 2012 is on it's way out and this place is starting to settle again.
And I'm a realist, not a self-rationalist ;D
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Yep. I found this place at the end of February.Those first couple of months were great, and the excitement of the 4/20 sale was enough to make me shit my pants in anticipation ;D. I couldnt believe this place existed and I was blown away with the possibility of trying drugs that I no longer had street connects for. It really seemed to good to be true, but once the orders were coming in you couldnt get the smile off of my face even if you kicked me in the nuts. :o
When all the scams went down and people started to cut and run, a big piece of me died. The forums changed, and everyone including myself seems to be filled with paranoia and anger. I wasnt personally scammed, but thinking of all the people that were, and watching trusted top vendors steal peoples money has left me upset and on the defensive.
If you were around before the 420 sale you know what I mean when I say this place has changed for the worse. I feel there is a light at the end of the tunnel and these past events and scams have the potential to make this place better as weird as that sounds.
Nothing in life that is worth doing is easy. It takes a struggle to really test a community and you come out stronger in the end. I hope SR is here for a long time, and I hope that bitch karma gets all the people who wronged anyone here.
The moral of the story and the expensive ass lesson (for some) has been-never FE. It only took people losing thousands of dollars to make it stick, although its been said since day one. Live and learn...and never... ever... ever, ever, ever, finalize early.
Long live Silk Road!
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I thought people who took LSD were 'enthusiasts' not junkies ;)
Anyway I think shitstorm 2012 is on it's way out and this place is starting to settle again.
And I'm a realist, not a self-rationalist ;D
Touché :)
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From my point of view, this place went south after Pharmville left. But I'd have to say the SR was at its peak late last year. It's been a steady decline since. I lost nothing during 4/20 because I have a personal policy of never FE. But even so, I've had a few issues with vendors around that time. Late ships, no ships, and questionable product in one instance. My latest order is a day overdue by my estimates but I'm in no real rush. I always plan ahead and make sure I have enough stuff to keep me going in the event of issues. But I must say, picking vendors now for my DOC gets harder and harder. They have limited stock or go on hiatus. Prices have gone up unnaturally also.
I don't know. But SR has lost some of its... magic.
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Remember how awesome this place was becoming before the 4/20 sale?
It's not awesome anymore? Could have fooled me, because I'm under the impression that this place is still pretty fucking incredible. You are seriously going to come on here and beat the dead horse that is the 4/20 losses? Good God man, live for the present and the future. Can't change the past, move on! This place is awesome!!!!!!!!!
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Remember how awesome this place was becoming before the 4/20 sale?
It's not awesome anymore? Could have fooled me, because I'm under the impression that this place is still pretty fucking incredible. You are seriously going to come on here and beat the dead horse that is the 4/20 losses? Good God man, live for the present and the future. Can't change the past, move on! This place is awesome!!!!!!!!!
Ah c'mon man, you took what I was saying out of context. The fact that this place exists is like a gift from heaven itself. I still love the road, I just had to vent about the events transpiring. Long live the road!
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It's easy to feel jaded if you read threads like THIS one all the time. Someone keeps bumping them, let's move on already sad people. It's like 50-year olds saying things like, "oh things were so much safer when I was a kid." It's all about perspective. Once you learn the world (or SR) isn't a perfect place, all of a sudden you become jaded and pessimistic. The road is better than ever, and will continue to get better. Most of us on these forums will be sticking to full-escrow, no FE, for the foreseeable future.
This road IS still fucking awesome, and there a lots of decent vendors left, and new ones popping up every day. Only three or four good vendors left, or have decided to take a hiatus... mostly because of the TFM bust, and not because of the two or three scams that occurred over 4/20.
"Squeaky wheels get the grease" and so complainers stand out quite a bit. Most buyers don't even bother to come to the forums unless they fucked up somehow.
Don't worry so much about a misperceived loss of the "old road," but look to the future. As a community we can work together to keep this place cool. Having Limetless around to stripe the trolls is working out quite well, so far, and that's making a big difference in my mind as to the fun factor here.
I enjoy reading these boards all fucking day and night... call me a weirdo. LOL The only people on here more than me is Limet, and maybe LEO I think.
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Jeeeeez, sorry!
However, you did make the mistake of bumping this thread ;)
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You guys know that everything is going to die down and return back to normal. Then in a year some douche-bag vendor will put on an awesome sale and fuck everyone over again haha.
The circle of life continues...
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You guys know that everything is going to die down and return back to normal. Then in a year some douche-bag vendor will put on an awesome sale and fuck everyone over again haha.
The circle of life continues...
Hahahahaha. Hopefully we'll have learned not to sympathize with any one that FE's by then.
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We? Speak for yourself...
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I keep reading this thread and to be blunt it fucking depresses me. To undepress me (yeah...that is a real word) I'm having a sale of my own where nobody has to FE. Time to get shit done right.
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Shitty interactions with bad vendors just lead to informed buyers who are less likely to repeat their mistakes. The only downside to the Silk Road architecture is that it allows people like tony76 to be consistently good vendors up until the point when they decide to screw large amounts of people out of their money. But to be fair, that's a rare occurrence. When bad vendors screw people over, they're just narrowing the gap for further bad vendors down the line by conditioning legions of people to avoid FE and deals that sound too good like the plague.
I know I'm new here but I've been observing how SR operates and find it really interesting so this is just some of the stuff I've observed.
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I felt that way too, damn every time I'd check out these forums I'd see another downer thread about some new scam...but I think that every day it's getting a little better since people aren't so fucking heartbroken over their april losses (myself as well...money comes money goes, I'm finally 100% over losing a bit of cash) and some good vendors are coming back (props to pfandleiher, fanny hill, and a couple others that have always treated me well are now back after hiatuses..and rxking seems like a great new pill guy if you're in the usa).
Peaks and valleys! Love this place and I think there are good things in store this summer, but maybe I'm just an optimist or maybe it's the bongload of albino rhino I just sucked down like a whore.
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It still is awesome... Ignore the idiot trolls, don't finalize early, and choose your vendors wisely. Business as usual!
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I wasn't affected by any scams actually. I was just starting to hate all the negative vibes being spread around by random threads and the participating vendors/mods/my-dicks-big-so-I-wanna-get-my-2-cents-in-on-this-thread-even-if-I-have-to-make-a-fake-account people making post after post.
Having realized my hypocrisy and my feeding of the very thing I claim to hate; Limetless, please do me a favor and lock this thread so shit like this isn't on the first page.
Only people with bad business sense would ever FE. Otherwise, they learn a hard and well-learned lesson.
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Lol, will do mate.
Locked.