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Discussion => Silk Road discussion => Topic started by: deletedme on September 24, 2011, 12:40 pm

Title: an alternative to commission increase
Post by: deletedme on September 24, 2011, 12:40 pm
Here's a simple way to increase SR revenue without raising the commission:

Advertise!

advertisement -> volume increase -> massive BTC influx for SR.
For the rest of us the benefits are obvious:   more buyers, more sellers, more competition,
lower prices ... higher BTC rate.


Silk Road, are you ready for this? I think it's time.

everybody else: what do you think of this? Please vote.
Title: Re: an alternative to commission increase
Post by: atlas on September 24, 2011, 02:19 pm
Bad idea IMO.
This will make every country wanna take SR down if it gets more popular, giving us more of a hard time buying our stuff here
Title: Re: an alternative to commission increase
Post by: deletedme on September 24, 2011, 02:24 pm
This will make every country wanna take SR down if it gets more popular, giving us more of a hard time buying our stuff here

every authority possible  surely wants to take it down already. But so far they can't. SR is doing a good job keeping this place secure. time to take it to make it a little bigger, imo - especially  if he wants more money.
Title: Re: an alternative to commission increase
Post by: Raffael on September 24, 2011, 04:47 pm
As a seller, I think it's not a question of good/bad but of *who* are the buyers you advertise to. Sellers don't want noob buyers as much as buyers don't want noob sellers. We also in a sense have a "responsibility" to be the frontiers and develop the anonymous marketplace concept.
Voted 'Good'. Advertise, but only to small closed groups.
Title: Re: an alternative to commission increase
Post by: ProudCannabian on September 24, 2011, 06:33 pm
My only concern with advertising is that we may get flooded with LEO and other malicious folks taking advantage of the member increase.  It also puts pressure on vendors to quickly move larger quantities, maybe before they're ready to do so.

I dunno about you guys, but anyone I trust I've "advertised" through word of mouth, just how awesome SR is.
I think building a TRUSTED user base is more important than $$$.
Title: Re: an alternative to commission increase
Post by: gaah on September 24, 2011, 07:02 pm
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I think building a TRUSTED user base is more important than $$$.

^^ this!
Title: Re: an alternative to commission increase
Post by: deletedme on September 24, 2011, 07:24 pm
advertising among your friends is good, but eventually limits the userbase to a number of closed circles. Advertisement has to be wise (e.g., don't go put up posters in schools), but in the end there's no way around it.


I remember SR before the infamous gawker article. It was great as a place to buy some acid, but, to take one example - there was no coke, and that despite a large and well-voiced demand (several threads in the old forum). And look at the coke section now! and that's just one example.

larger user base is better for all. that's kinda obvious.
Title: Re: an alternative to commission increase
Post by: bleep on September 24, 2011, 09:15 pm
taking the possible growth rate of SR into account, it's doing pretty good.


gymclasshole user/66035
has been a member for 23 hours
was last seen: today

093809 user/66498
has been a member for 3 minutes
was last seen: today

thats like 450 new users signed up today, if that is a user count number?
Title: Re: an alternative to commission increase
Post by: anarcho47 on September 24, 2011, 10:02 pm
Yeah, that's 150k+ new users  in a year if that's the actual pace.

That's a lot.  I think SR is probably going to burn himself on this new commission thing, but we'll see.  If volumes drop off I'm hoping he responds by at least making it tiered so the per-transaction amounts to a window of BTC versus forking over $60.00 for a $500.00 purchase.  That's pretty huge. 
Title: Re: an alternative to commission increase
Post by: bleep on September 24, 2011, 10:34 pm
I think those numbers ar right, if you go onto SR marketplace, go  your  profile and play around with the number in the address bar, there is a member for every number between 66035 - 66498

not sure if this is another security flaw or what??
Title: Re: an alternative to commission increase
Post by: Ineluctable on September 25, 2011, 01:44 am
I think those numbers are right, if you go onto SR marketplace, go to your user profile and play around with the user number in the address bar, there is a member for every number between 66035 - 66498

not sure if this is another security flaw or what??

It's just a unique identifier, you'll notice you have one here on the forums too. ;)  Not a security flaw in the slightest, just a way of keeping one account separate from another.

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Title: Re: an alternative to commission increase
Post by: deletedme on September 25, 2011, 08:16 am
there is a member for **every** number between 66035 - 66498
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jumping to conclusions here.
Title: Re: an alternative to commission increase
Post by: bleep on September 25, 2011, 02:27 pm
not jumping to conclusin, it is a fact that around 460 people join SR store yesterday. you can check yourself
Title: Re: an alternative to commission increase
Post by: deletedme on September 26, 2011, 04:48 pm
not jumping to conclusin, it is a fact that around 460 people join SR store yesterday. you can check yourself

it doens't follow from anywhere that user numbers are still assigned consecutively (although it was like that in the past).
So if you you see a user with UID 70 000 it doesn't imply there are at least 70 000 registered users.  But may be  you have
some other way demonstrate that?
Title: Re: an alternative to commission increase
Post by: bleep on September 26, 2011, 06:04 pm
go  your  profile and play around with the number in the address bar, there is a member for every number between 66035 - 66498

i just checked between these numbers because, 66035 was the oldest 1 that said member for 23hrs. 66498 said member for 3 mins at the time of checking all this.

every number between 66035-66498 signed up in the same 24hr period, numbers go up as they join later int he 24hr.

roughly 460 members the day i made that post, fact
Title: Re: an alternative to commission increase
Post by: bleep on September 26, 2011, 06:33 pm
at the time of making this post 67490 is the newest member

johnnydice
has been a member for 4 seconds

September 24, 2011, 09:15:22 pm - September 26, 2011, 06:26:45 pm

66498 - 67490

992 new members in less than 69hrs?
Title: Re: an alternative to commission increase
Post by: EnterTheMatrix on September 28, 2011, 10:33 am
at the time of making this post 67490 is the newest member

johnnydice
has been a member for 4 seconds

September 24, 2011, 09:15:22 pm - September 26, 2011, 06:26:45 pm

66498 - 67490

992 new members in less than 69hrs?

If those figures are right, this is remarkable!

This place is going to be absolutely HUGE. Imagine the price drops and more purchases.

The negative is the extra attention and possible related incidents such as overdoses of drugs sourced from Silk Road and then the story being sensationalized by the corrupt news networks (i.e FoxNews).

They will demonize our much loved Silk Road and demand a response from LE. Then we will have a war against regulation and control from the governments of this world.

We shop at Silk Road in very interesting times...