It is getting bad and the admins need to take a more proactive approach at identifying and stopping scammers. When a vendor can scam $30K in a couple of weeks, the $500 vendor bond is useless at stopping them. SR is simply too big and has too many clueless newbs, so it's a wonderland for scammers. SR users are being ripped off for tens of thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands of dollars every month. Legit vendors should be pissed about that too, because that's money that could have gone to them. They can't rely on users reporting scamming vendors and then waiting another week for the evidence to accumulate. They say they can't just ban vendors without solid evidence, but there is a middle ground. They can sandbox sketchy vendors. Block them from withdrawing BTC. Also, it's pretty easy to write a few algorithms to detect potential scammers early. Here are some suggestions: 1. If the average time between marking an order in transit and finalizing drops below 24 hours (or a similar time frame) within any 24 hour period, flag the account for manual review by the admins, and block BTC withdrawals. 2. If the average time between marking an order in transit and buyers finalizing drops more than half a standard deviation from the vendor's overall average, flag the account and block BTC withdrawals. FE is how all these scammers operate and it's easy to detect. DPR wrote a fairly sophisticated formula for calculating commission, using Euler's constant, and he has algorithms to detect mass BTC withdrawals. I have a hard time believing he can't write a few simple formulas to detect mass FEs and sandbox the accounts. Again, we're not talking about banning them outright, but they can be sandboxed until more evidence is gathered. There is no excuse for this. As I've said before, the new feedback system is pointless when they do nothing about scammers for weeks anyway. Aggressive identification and sandboxing of sketchy / scamming vendors should be their top priority.