Silk Road forums
Discussion => Newbie discussion => Topic started by: Deliveryman on October 03, 2013, 07:45 pm
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1. You brought open competition to the black market!
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2. That open competition helped increase product quality.
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3. Unlike many bunk products that are available in the black market, SR's open competition drove the market towards honest product offers where what was being sold was what was being advertised - a major improvement over the pre-SR black market.
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4. The reputation system encouraged honesty among dealers.
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5. The reputation system encouraged good customer service from dealers.
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Open competition increased supply.
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Open competition expanded variety of products available.
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Escrow protects buyers from scammer dealers.
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And the thousands of users that lost a tonne of BTC's wo have now lost it is over simple mistakes by DPR.
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Anonymity protects sellers from being robbed IRL (usually violently).
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Anonymity also protects buyers from being robbed in real life.
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Scammers still exist, but they are easily outed thanks to feedback and the forums.
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The open market brought products previously unavailable to certain regions into those regions.
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Open competition kept downward pressure on price.
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Delivery kept buyers safe from having to travel to purchase product, risking police pullover and bust.
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Delivery by the govt's own postal service kept dealers safe from having to travel with product.
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Delivery kept even lazy dealers from having to reveal their addresses to buyers. (Lazy dealers are people who have IRL buyers come to their homes.)
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Delivery means no meeting clients/dealers in shady places like parking lots, alleys, clubs, or wherever other eyes, police, snitches can see.
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Taking a break from posting. Now your turn!
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More harm reduction has come from the existence of the Silk Road than anything else in the history of the black market.
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As a direct result of its existence, lives have been saved. Thousands of real life drug deals never happened thanks to SR, meaning people did not get robbed, beaten, or murdered by unscrupulous people involved in bad deals.
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That life that may have been saved could have been yours. Whatever amount you lost in the SR takedown is trivial compared to the loss of your life.
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The SR has saved people, maybe you, from being arrested and going to prison. Had you been dealing IRL rather than here, your risks of incarceration would have been much higher. SR may have kept you out of a jail cell.
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it was the best site to find ketamine
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SR increased product availability IRL. Because anyone could buy product on SR, they could enter their local drug market and compete with established dealers, avoiding local supply chains entirely and bringing new product to market without it passing through local middlemen's hands.
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SR's bringing new dealers to local markets increased supply there, placing downward pressure on local prices.
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SR's bringing better quality product to dealers increased better quality product to street buyers.
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With necessity being the mother of invention, all kinds of neat new smuggling methods were devised by SR sellers!
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SR empowered mid and low-level dealers to jump up the supply chain without having to "earn it" through local product gatekeepers.
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The SR forum brought users and dealers together in a way that had been unseen. More communication led to better reputation ratings, as buyers, who never would have known each other IRL, were able to share feedback.
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Alright, I've run out of reasons.
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Looks like there are now new forums.
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Right when I'm in striking distance of the 50 post threshold, of course.
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Message to police: go find some real criminals.
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You know, the ones that actually hurt people?
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Hint to cops:
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To find a real criminal that hurts people...
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look
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no
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further
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than
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the
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mirror.
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See you all on the new forums.
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Long live the Silk Road.