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Discussion => Silk Road discussion => Topic started by: HarmReduction on June 24, 2013, 06:24 pm
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I have had a number of replies from vendors however I would like to have 2 more vendors to complete this study.
Your help is really appreciated
Thanks Tim
******* Study finishes Friday 2nd August**********
My name is Tim Bingham and I am currently undertaking a pilot study on Silk Road vendors with Dr. Marie Claire Van Hout . I am based in Ireland and would really appreciate it if you could spend a few minutes answering some questions .
Your Participation in the research will be confidential, voluntary You can can refuse to answer any questions and NO identifying information will be sought from you and NO SILK ROAD ID is EVER quoted in the research just the term 'participant' The research has received ethical approval from Waterford Institute of Technology in Ireland and received permission from admin on Silk Road (DPR)
I already have a journal published about Silk Road http://www.ijdp.org/article/S0955-3959(13)00006-6/abstract
This study on Vendors follows on from a study I have just completed with a number of buyers from the site.
If you would like to comment please go to the thread for the vendors research which is on http://dkn255hz262ypmii.onion/index.php?topic=168742.30
If you want to know more about me I am easy enough to Google ;)
My contact email is hrireland@tormail.org please use PGP when replying
If you would like more info please DM me I would really appreciate it if you could answer as many questions and comprehensively as you can .
Thanks Tim
**NOTE this study will close on Friday 2nd August**
Gender
Male
Female
Age
20 – 24
25 – 29
30 – 34
35-39
40-44
45-50
50+
Employment
Full time
Part time
Unemployed
Third Level Education
Accessing Silk Road
When did you become aware of Silk Road?
Did you use other drug related sites for the accessing of information or drug purchasing before accessing Silk Road?
What were your reasons for accessing Silk Road?
What is your opinion on the Tor system?
What is your opinion on Bitcoins?
Do you have concerns around the fluctuation in the valuation?
Do you interact with site members on the forums?
Can you describe your purchasing history on the site?
Vending on Silk Road
What motivated you to set up a vendor account?
Did you sell drugs outside of Silk Road, before you set up a Silk Road vendor account? Which drugs? Are they different to what you sell on Silk Road?
What year did you start selling on Silk Road?
In your experience, what are the advantages and disadvantages of selling drugs using
Silk Road compared with (a) other websites, (b) traditional drug markets?
What drugs do you sell on Silk Road?
Have you ever had to change supplier? If yes why?
Can you describe the process of setting up a vendor account on the site?
How do you ensure you attract new customers?
Would you sell to a person with under 5 previous transaction? If no why ?
Do you select your customers based on their feedback ratings?
How do you maintain a customer base?
Is there competition between vendors?
Can you describe the current vendor market on the site?
Quality and Customer Satisfaction
What is your opinion on Silk Road as reducing harm to buyers?
How do you ensure the quality of the products you sell?
Do you have any concerns around the quality of your products?
Have you ever experienced a customer overdosing on one of your products?
Have you ever experienced a dispute with a customer?
How do you deal with negative feedback from your customers?
Can you describe your experiences of the dispute resolution mode?
Do you operate in stealth mode/listing? If yes, can you explain why?
Dispatch of Products
Where do you dispatch your products to?
Have you concerns around your product being intercepted by customs and excise?
Have you concerns around potential prosecution?
Future Intentions
How do you think Silk Road will develop in years to come?
Have you concerns around cyber security?
Have you concerns that the site will be shut down? If this happens, what will happen to existing drug sales networks?
Have you concerns around stability of Bit Coins and potential law enforcement tactics?
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Articles and other links about me ( Clear web)
http://www.humanrightsanddrugs.org/2012/05/tim-bingham-irish-press-ombudsman-upholds-complaint-from-coalition-of-drug-services/
http://rabble.ie/2012/12/03/just-say-know-an-interview-with-the-irish-needle-exchange-forum/
http://www.thejournal.ie/readme/column-to-fight-the-drug-problem-we-must-treat-users-with-compassion-350777-Feb2012/
http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/health/higher-rate-of-drug-deaths-202359.html
http://ie.linkedin.com/pub/tim-bingham/16/a57/67b
http://www.drugsandalcohol.ie/view/people/Bingham=3ATim=3A=3A.html
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Even if there are BTC vendors I would be interested to hear back
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drugs
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if this was a sting and a seller got busted after this, then answering questions like...
Did you sell drugs outside of Silk Road, before you set up a Silk Road vendor account? Which drugs? Are they different to what you sell on Silk Road?
What year did you start selling on Silk Road?
In your experience, what are the advantages and disadvantages of selling drugs using
Silk Road compared with (a) other websites, (b) traditional drug markets?
What drugs do you sell on Silk Road?
..will absolutely ruin your case.
if i was a seller i would use the same policy here as i would in a police interview, say nothing.
sorry if you are genuine OP, but this does come over as very suspicious in a place like this and we are paranoid enough already.
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if this was a sting and a seller got busted after this, then answering questions like...
Did you sell drugs outside of Silk Road, before you set up a Silk Road vendor account? Which drugs? Are they different to what you sell on Silk Road?
What year did you start selling on Silk Road?
In your experience, what are the advantages and disadvantages of selling drugs using
Silk Road compared with (a) other websites, (b) traditional drug markets?
What drugs do you sell on Silk Road?
..will absolutely ruin your case.
if i was a seller i would use the same policy here as i would in a police interview, say nothing.
sorry if you are genuine OP, but this does come over as very suspicious in a place like this and we are paranoid enough already.
please have a look at http://dkn255hz262ypmii.onion/index.php?topic=168742.30
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please have a look at http://dkn255hz262ypmii.onion/index.php?topic=168742.30
yeah i know, read it already
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please have a look at http://dkn255hz262ypmii.onion/index.php?topic=168742.30
yeah i know, read it already
I am assuming you read whole thread ? - if you did you see I have already published on Silk Road and others on here can back that up
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I just skimmed through the other thread. You mentioned several times that some people took your survey without identifying information. Given the number of trolls on this forum, how do you know they were all vendors? How do you know they were different people? 10 of your 28 respondents could be one person trolling you with different accounts and making up whatever answers he wants. I don't see how you can draw any firm conclusions from this research.
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I just skimmed through the other thread. You mentioned several times that some people took your survey without identifying information. Given the number of trolls on this forum, how do you know they were all vendors? How do you know they were different people? 10 of your 28 respondents could be one person trolling you with different accounts and making up whatever answers he wants. I don't see how you can draw any firm conclusions from this research.
Because a number of them have replied thought DM on SR and when I say I do not want identifying info I am talking about names address anything that that personally ID's them and a few of them I have had contact with previously from other research I have undertaken and others I have approached hence why I know these individuals are vendors
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Oh, I see. I thought you meant they were completely anonymous.
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Harm Reduction, so why do you want to know the inns and out's of a cats bottom again? I respect you as a journo, if that's what you are. But your questions read like a list of an agency trying to log everything and build up a picture. You say there are vendors informing ( to you) on a regular basis, I hope I haven't purchased of them. Now if your intentions are to help people, how can you do that when they are anonymous? What is the purpose of such intelligence gathering. I do realize if you were an enemy of SR, then surely you wouldn't go about it in such a blatent manner. Is this study going to be published then, if so when? Ok you have already published, but does that make your intentions admirable? And what harm did you reduce by this previous study?
So My gender, my age, am I employed, my reason for coming here.My purchase history. Did I deal drugs before I came to SR. What drugs were they. What drugs do I sell now.Describe the process of becoming a vendor. Where do I dispatch (send) my products to. are you joking? Any one of them questions on their own would raise suspicions. Coupled together, they are red flags of biblical proportions. No vendor has the right to give customers info, away anon or not. And they should really tell you to mind your own business. You could easily narrow down the field, with them questions, and cause some real harm, which is what you claim to reduce. Most people haven't had no criminal experience, so you asking these questions won't alarm them. But you have to admit these results could be used for nefarious purposes. Convince me?
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Harm Reduction, so why do you want to know the inns and out's of a cats bottom again? I respect you as a journo, if that's what you are. But your questions read like a list of an agency trying to log everything and build up a picture. You say there are vendors informing ( to you) on a regular basis, I hope I haven't purchased of them. Now if your intentions are to help people, how can you do that when they are anonymous? What is the purpose of such intelligence gathering. I do realize if you were an enemy of SR, then surely you wouldn't go about it in such a blatent manner. Is this study going to be published then, if so when? Ok you have already published, but does that make your intentions admirable? And what harm did you reduce by this previous study?
So My gender, my age, am I employed, my reason for coming here.My purchase history. Did I deal drugs before I came to SR. What drugs were they. What drugs do I sell now.Describe the process of becoming a vendor. Where do I dispatch (send) my products to. are you joking? Any one of them questions on their own would raise suspicions. Coupled together, they are red flags of biblical proportions. No vendor has the right to give customers info, away anon or not. And they should really tell you to mind your own business. You could easily narrow down the field, with them questions, and cause some real harm, which is what you claim to reduce. Most people haven't had no criminal experience, so you asking these questions won't alarm them. But you have to admit these results could be used for a nefarious purposes. Convince me?
I AGREE 100% what you said NorthernStar and if I could write that good I would have written the exact same thing you did! Well said.
I wanted to help...then I saw the questions and more then half of them are so intrusive and literally would be giving myself up to LE. And if I was to answer them 100% honest or anyone for that matter..you would be jeopardizing yourself in a way that would not be worth it in any way,shape or form. I would not answer that questionnaire truthfully for $500k. So I believe that anyone that did...totally had to lie. So the information will not be accurate anyways. And any vendor that did answer it truthfully is a total idiot.
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I hope your taking note HR. There's one of SR's best vendors telling you how it is from a dealers perspective.
I thoroughly and wholeheartedly agree with the KING, How could such information be beneficial?
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surely OP you can understand why this is so suspicious to us? again i'm sorry if you are just a student trying to do your assignment, but the fact that you linked to your other thread like it was some absolute proof that you couldn't possibly be LE, when it proves absolutely FA, is even more suspicious to me. sorry but that's how it is. you're not trying to question homeless street junkies here, this is people who stand to lose an awful lot if you turned out to not be who you say.
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This is such a dumbass interview. Just know that we are probably a different age than you and we probably make way more money than you in a cooler way.
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surely OP you can understand why this is so suspicious to us? again i'm sorry if you are just a student trying to do your assignment, but the fact that you linked to your other thread like it was some absolute proof that you couldn't possibly be LE, when it proves absolutely FA, is even more suspicious to me. sorry but that's how it is. you're not trying to question homeless street junkies here, this is people who stand to lose an awful lot if you turned out to not be who you say.
OP isn't a student and he's publishing an academic study in a journal, did you read the other thread he started? Did you read the other article that has already been published? He has already passed an ethics board, which protects anonymity if he knows the identities of those he is interviewing, which he doesn't.
I understand why people are skeptical or suspicious, that's the nature of this business, but this isn't an undergrad trying to get an A, not that that can't be important. I think studies about SR and harm reduction can significantly alter popular perception of us and of drug use in general...
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surely OP you can understand why this is so suspicious to us? again i'm sorry if you are just a student trying to do your assignment, but the fact that you linked to your other thread like it was some absolute proof that you couldn't possibly be LE, when it proves absolutely FA, is even more suspicious to me. sorry but that's how it is. you're not trying to question homeless street junkies here, this is people who stand to lose an awful lot if you turned out to not be who you say.
OP isn't a student and he's publishing an academic study in a journal, did you read the other thread he started? Did you read the other article that has already been published? He has already passed an ethics board, which protects anonymity if he knows the identities of those he is interviewing, which he doesn't.
I understand why people are skeptical or suspicious, that's the nature of this business, but this isn't an undergrad trying to get an A, not that that can't be important. I think studies about SR and harm reduction can significantly alter popular perception of us and of drug use in general...
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surely OP you can understand why this is so suspicious to us? again i'm sorry if you are just a student trying to do your assignment, but the fact that you linked to your other thread like it was some absolute proof that you couldn't possibly be LE, when it proves absolutely FA, is even more suspicious to me. sorry but that's how it is. you're not trying to question homeless street junkies here, this is people who stand to lose an awful lot if you turned out to not be who you say.
OP isn't a student and he's publishing an academic study in a journal, did you read the other thread he started? Did you read the other article that has already been published? He has already passed an ethics board, which protects anonymity if he knows the identities of those he is interviewing, which he doesn't.
I understand why people are skeptical or suspicious, that's the nature of this business, but this isn't an undergrad trying to get an A, not that that can't be important. I think studies about SR and harm reduction can significantly alter popular perception of us and of drug use in general...
ethics board??? ..don't make me laugh. why the fuck would we put our trust into ethics boards with the scummy corrupt govt and institutions we have in our current society?
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Oh shit dude, some dude on an internet drug forum said some shit. I trust him.
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its like these journalists who 'always protect their sources'. that is until a court subpena's them and they turn over the info rather than face jail for contempt of court.
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Forget it bro I dont think there will be many participants. 8)