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Discussion => Off topic => Topic started by: club on January 13, 2012, 04:29 pm

Title: How is this site legal? (not this one)
Post by: club on January 13, 2012, 04:29 pm
I dont even know how I ended up there, but I found this page:
http://www.topix.com/forum/drug/xanax

It appears to be meant as a discussion forum, but the majority of posts are people openly selling xanax. No code words or anything. Last I heard Xanax was a prescription drug. How is this page on the surface web and not being taken down by the man in like 2 seconds?
Title: Re: How is this site legal? (not this one)
Post by: wowzers on January 13, 2012, 05:49 pm
Most of the people on there are scammers but I've had a few good f2f hookups for weed and K before. I imagine there's a heavy LE presence.
Title: Re: How is this site legal? (not this one)
Post by: club on January 13, 2012, 06:56 pm
OT, but wowsers, who is that chick your avatar? She reminds me of that 90s actress who was related to a famous writer and had the same last name as him. And I think she came out that she was gay. But I cant for the life of my remember the name. Even if that isn't her pic, it's driving me totally insane trying to remember the name now.
Title: Re: How is this site legal? (not this one)
Post by: eddie912115 on January 13, 2012, 08:30 pm
OT, but wowsers, who is that chick your avatar? She reminds me of that 90s actress who was related to a famous writer and had the same last name as him. And I think she came out that she was gay. But I cant for the life of my remember the name. Even if that isn't her pic, it's driving me totally insane trying to remember the name now.

Mariel Hemingway?
Title: Re: How is this site legal? (not this one)
Post by: wowzers on January 14, 2012, 12:27 am
It's a young Claudia Schiffer 
I picked my user name at random from a dictionary, then found an avatar to fit the name  :D
Title: Re: How is this site legal? (not this one)
Post by: doublemint on January 14, 2012, 12:36 am
Most of the people on there are scammers but I've had a few good f2f hookups for weed and K before. I imagine there's a heavy LE presence.

Yeah that's what I was thinking.
Once LE is done busting them all they'll shut it down and take the owners to court.
Title: Re: How is this site legal? (not this one)
Post by: godofall2 on January 14, 2012, 02:58 am
yea that site been up for some time but it like 90% scammers and LE on there.
Title: Re: How is this site legal? (not this one)
Post by: treebeard on January 14, 2012, 11:29 pm
never was able to pick up a legit transaction on topix,
craigslist on the other hand, I've taken that gamble and won it more times than I care to have.

praise science for deepweb

@wowzers - nice story, nice pic

 8)
Title: Re: How is this site legal? (not this one)
Post by: Bumbaclot on January 15, 2012, 12:20 am
Have ordered successfully from there before - just gotta find the vendors with real feedback. I'm much more confident when ordering from SR though. Topix at least haven't taken it down because they probably make a lot of money from the adverts. LE haven't taken it down probably because it accounts for a very small percentage of the drug market and Topix have most likely told them they'll take down any offending threads/posts (which they rarely do).
Title: Re: How is this site legal? (not this one)
Post by: treebeard on January 15, 2012, 12:55 am
yeah, sounds about right.  how do you tell good feedback from false, though?

haha your nym gave me a laugh at the good old days and GTA
Title: Re: How is this site legal? (not this one)
Post by: Bumbaclot on January 17, 2012, 03:22 am
Haha yeah, GTA's where I got it from.

Generally go for the threads with the most replies and check through the pages for the feedback. If the feedback is consistently good and written by long term members then you can be fairly sure it's legit. Google any details of the seller before purchasing to be sure he hasn't scammed before.
Title: Re: How is this site legal? (not this one)
Post by: club on January 24, 2012, 06:04 pm
Mariel Hemingway?

Yes, thank you!