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Discussion => Security => Topic started by: AngelWolf on November 08, 2011, 02:23 am

Title: buying/selling using same account?
Post by: AngelWolf on November 08, 2011, 02:23 am
hi everyone!

i am so HAPPY to have found this place! 

one question:  i do plan on both buying and selling on SR but i was thinking that, if i use, say, this name to sell goods and then turn around and use the same name  to purchase something else, my "selling" name could then be tied to an address (be it mine, a friend's, or a PO box), right?  should i set up 2 separate accounts?  should i even worry?  how do you guys all deal with this?

thanks all!
xoxo
Title: Re: buying/selling using same account?
Post by: AngelWolf on November 10, 2011, 05:34 am
*BUMP*

hey, i am deadly serious!  buying is one thing but selling puts you in a whole different category!  this is the safest place for sellers as they can remain anonymous.  but no matter how encrypted your address is, once you make a purchase, ONE person will see it who happens to be completely anonymous.  to those who buy AND sell, do you all have two separate accounts or do you feel safe using the same one for both?  or do you only buy from proven sellers with adequate history backing them up?  that's the trouble with being both merchant and consumer...  juggling accounts can fuck you up if you're fucked up to begin with.  ahh, the trails of life.

listen, if this is a stupid question just tell me.  i'm a big girl (well, not exactly), i can handle it.  i've been familiar with tor and the privacy/freedom/peace of mind it offers for like a year now.  but i am VERY new to silk road.  talk about the proverbial icing on the cake!  anyway, i've been going through these forums learning all that i can since i signed up and i haven't seen this brought up yet.  maybe because it's too obvious, i don't know, could anyone please tell me?  i'd really appreciate that.

thanks.  well, i guess i'll lurk moar for now.  god, i miss ED....
Title: Re: buying/selling using same account?
Post by: eryx2k9 on November 10, 2011, 06:16 am
Hey, of course you should set up different accounts for selling / purchasing :) be sure to use names not related to each other ;)
Title: Re: buying/selling using same account?
Post by: microRNA on November 10, 2011, 06:32 am
Yes... it is kinda obvious and you answered your own question. Why would you ever release an address that is associated with a vendor account. There is no cost for a buyer account so you should definitely set one up to make purchases with. And if youre too fucked up to manage two accounts you should almost definitely just do neither  :P

Great job coming over to the forum and reading up to educate yourself! Good luck, welcome to SR!
Title: Re: buying/selling using same account?
Post by: AngelWolf on November 10, 2011, 07:12 am
thank you.  that's what i thought but i'm still kinda caught in that "multiple accounts get you banned" mindset drilled into me from years and years and years of online groups and message boards i wanted to be 100% sure because silk road is the only one that really matters, you know, besides the gaming- well, never mind.

of course, i could set up dozens of accounts here, couldn't i, and no one would even know...  tor was useful to me for other reasons...  whoa!  paradigm shift!  hahaha, not a problem.  just give me a couple of hours.  ;)

thanks for the advice and the warm welcome.  :)