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Discussion => Silk Road discussion => Topic started by: subdude on March 16, 2012, 05:44 am

Title: Ive never run into Chinese vendors on SR
Post by: subdude on March 16, 2012, 05:44 am
Is there some kind of blockade or such to prevent China from participating here...or rather over at silkroad?
Title: Re: Ive never run into Chinese vendors on SR
Post by: Mrambulancedriver on March 16, 2012, 05:46 am
I thought they had their internet censored or some shit..I'm not sure i'm really high.
Title: Re: Ive never run into Chinese vendors on SR
Post by: MailMaxDev on March 16, 2012, 06:38 am
Many Chinese people are blocked from using Tor, that probably does has something to do with it.
Title: Re: Ive never run into Chinese vendors on SR
Post by: rise_against on March 16, 2012, 07:01 am
United states pays the chinese govt. to block its citizens access to the rest of the internet so that their citizens don't get wind of the prices we charge for the shoes they make us for their ten cents / day paychecks.
Title: Re: Ive never run into Chinese vendors on SR
Post by: subdude on March 16, 2012, 05:23 pm
Interesting ....

Plenty of, you know...uh hummm!..is supplied here by China, yet they only have others doing the dirty work?
Title: Re: Ive never run into Chinese vendors on SR
Post by: rise_against on March 17, 2012, 10:07 pm
i bet if someone from china where to start selling heroine on this site, he could charge $10/gram and would become the richest person in china.
Title: Re: Ive never run into Chinese vendors on SR
Post by: JimPooley on March 18, 2012, 11:55 am
United states pays the chinese govt. to block its citizens access to the rest of the internet so that their citizens don't get wind of the prices we charge for the shoes they make us for their ten cents / day paychecks.


Hmmm... Does the US govt pay China with they money they made from shipping smack out of Afghanistan for the last10yrs??

Oil or heroin?
Title: Re: Ive never run into Chinese vendors on SR
Post by: Horizons on March 18, 2012, 02:15 pm
United states pays the chinese govt. to block its citizens access to the rest of the internet so that their citizens don't get wind of the prices we charge for the shoes they make us for their ten cents / day paychecks.

Are you implying that if it weren't for the Great Firewall, the hordes of illiterate 12-year-old Nike employees who probably can't tell a PC from a television would somehow learn to read and access the Internet, research the foreign prices of the running shoes they make and decide that not the grueling hours for shit pay, nor the lack of workplace safety, nor the verbal and physical abuse they're subjected to each and every day, but the fucking price of a pair of Shox running shoes is what would drive them to revolt? No, I don't think so.

The reason China censors the Internet has nothing to do with keeping the workforce working and everything to do with keeping their subjects quiet. It's politics, not economics.
Title: Re: Ive never run into Chinese vendors on SR
Post by: Walnutst on March 29, 2012, 02:29 am
Chinese internet isn't blocked. I order good directly from there on a monthly basis (counterfeit goods). They can access our websites just like we can access there's. The shipping companys website they use is completely in Chinese but they have an option to view it in English. The people who are working for 10¢ an hour probably don't have access to the internet or fully well know how much we pay for their good but are either happy to have a job at all or (because of their government) couldn't do anything about it if they wanted to.
Title: Re: Ive never run into Chinese vendors on SR
Post by: new987 on March 29, 2012, 08:12 pm
Not many drugs come from china on the global market. Death penalty for selling on SR for sure. You won't find much made from there labs either just RC and other designer drugs and grey market chems but not meth or mdma.

It doesn't make much sense to sell drugs internationally from china when first the demand domestically would be very low, and second if you did it in another country you wouldn't be killed if you got caught.
Title: Re: Ive never run into Chinese vendors on SR
Post by: Jimmy245 on March 29, 2012, 08:37 pm
I think it's only a matter of time before we see listings from China and developing nations.  I actually have been wondering why there are no cheap cocaine listings directly from Peru or Colombia.
Title: Re: Ive never run into Chinese vendors on SR
Post by: Isop on March 30, 2012, 03:30 am
I think it's only a matter of time before we see listings from China and developing nations.  I actually have been wondering why there are no cheap cocaine listings directly from Peru or Colombia.

No shit, why are  we buying from canada/usa vendors where there is a 1000x markup? 
Title: Re: Ive never run into Chinese vendors on SR
Post by: bananatinpots on March 30, 2012, 10:45 am
I think it's only a matter of time before we see listings from China and developing nations.  I actually have been wondering why there are no cheap cocaine listings directly from Peru or Colombia.

I'll be offering cocaine from Ecuador (between Peru and Colombia) with samples for review going out within a couple of weeks...

One reason that no one is doing this yet (AFAIK) is that no one knows what Tor is in our part of the world, internet penetration is quite low itself (30% in Ecuador)

Although our postal system seems to have gotten its shit together I don't believe it's so great in most places between the Andes and our northern neighbor.  Disculpame por no investigar.

But yeah SR will probably start to see vendors from producing countries appear this year, prices could go down quite a bit but it's not likely to be so earth shattering, I'm looking to price around 20-30% cheaper than the competition to be competitive when the buying is considering the higher risk involved in international shipping from a place that may well be on your customs list of producing or transshipment countries and merit extra investigation.

Remember that economics dictates that prices will be what the market can bear.   Demand for drugs is limited by very little, cocaine is an addictive substance, prices will stay high because I can't fulfill the demand on SR let alone the tons that the USA consumes every week.

The guys that move big weight will probably not be that interested in the breadcrumbs of business available on SR, cash buyers that can receive shipping containers are certainly the way to go if you are greedy.
Title: Re: Ive never run into Chinese vendors on SR
Post by: That 1 Dude on March 30, 2012, 01:16 pm
I keep an eye out for knock off shoes and clothes from china, but only see high priced bag and heels. I'd like bulk of bags, heels, sneakers, for very low price per item. Will keep checking for that..

also would love to see counterfeit currency. 200 in false 20's would be great to see.
Title: Re: Ive never run into Chinese vendors on SR
Post by: bananatinpots on March 30, 2012, 01:53 pm
also would love to see counterfeit currency. 200 in false 20's would be great to see.

I think counterfeit currency is against SR rules, though there was a dodgy guy offering all denominations of euros at fairly low prices... It's harmful because it might well end up screwing over small independent businesses. 
Title: Re: Ive never run into Chinese vendors on SR
Post by: northsidepk on March 30, 2012, 03:10 pm
Chinese internet isn't blocked. I order good directly from there on a monthly basis (counterfeit goods). They can access our websites just like we can access there's. The shipping companys website they use is completely in Chinese but they have an option to view it in English. The people who are working for 10¢ an hour probably don't have access to the internet or fully well know how much we pay for their good but are either happy to have a job at all or (because of their government) couldn't do anything about it if they wanted to.

When it is mentioned that the Chinese internet in censored. it is meant that in China, the Internet Service

Providers block or censor much of the internet, particularly if it is a URL on a server that is not in China.


What you are talking about is accessing a Chinese website, from what I assume is outside of China.

We can see in, but they can't see out.
Title: Re: Ive never run into Chinese vendors on SR
Post by: That 1 Dude on March 30, 2012, 08:29 pm
also would love to see counterfeit currency. 200 in false 20's would be great to see.

I think counterfeit currency is against SR rules, though there was a dodgy guy offering all denominations of euros at fairly low prices... It's harmful because it might well end up screwing over small independent businesses.

Ahh that makes sense why I don't see any funny money vendors..

IMO, a lot of things "COULD" hurt small businesses (a gun from the armory could be used to rob a small business..).  I think the harm is in the people, and counterfeit money is some scammy shit.. BUT can be a tool against corporate tyrants as well as the federal reserve itself..
That being said.. I'm sure that the minds behind SR know what is best and I respect the rules.
Title: Re: Ive never run into Chinese vendors on SR
Post by: yournamehere on March 31, 2012, 07:17 am
I actually lived in China.

TOR is blocked, somehow you can't connect even through relays.  The few Chinese vendors I've seen here must be connecting from somewhere outside the mainland, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan don't have the firewall.  The underground element of china prefers VPNs and shit hosted on Taiwanese or HK servers.  Also, the penalty for drug dealing in any quantity is decapitation.

Thank god my hash man was brave when I was there, 谢谢, 老王!
Title: Re: Ive never run into Chinese vendors on SR
Post by: helpadelpa on April 01, 2012, 12:55 am
I actually lived in China.

TOR is blocked, somehow you can't connect even through relays.  The few Chinese vendors I've seen here must be connecting from somewhere outside the mainland, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan don't have the firewall.  The underground element of china prefers VPNs and shit hosted on Taiwanese or HK servers.  Also, the penalty for drug dealing in any quantity is decapitation.

Thank god my hash man was brave when I was there, 谢谢, 老王!


decapitation? Really that is some hardcore shit homie !  Fuck dealing in china
Title: Re: Ive never run into Chinese vendors on SR
Post by: yournamehere on April 01, 2012, 01:08 pm
I actually lived in China.

TOR is blocked, somehow you can't connect even through relays.  The few Chinese vendors I've seen here must be connecting from somewhere outside the mainland, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan don't have the firewall.  The underground element of china prefers VPNs and shit hosted on Taiwanese or HK servers.  Also, the penalty for drug dealing in any quantity is decapitation.

Thank god my hash man was brave when I was there, 谢谢, 老王!


decapitation? Really that is some hardcore shit homie !  Fuck dealing in china
Yeah man, the Chinese government mostly doesn't give a shit about crime unless you're pretty brazen about it.  But when they do catch you....

If anyone here is in China or goes to china looking for hash, best people to ask are the Muslim minority, Xinjian or Uygur people.  They hate the government and have been making hash for thousands of years.  They risk getting tortured and killed just to sell hash to white people and punks, truly heroes.