Quote from: ytabletrashRecently (and currently) it has become pretty obvious that PlanetExpress is pulling a FE scam. Now, I understand that vendors shouldnt have their vendor status changed because of a couple people dont get their orders. But I believe in a case such as this where ALL items bought are FEs and NOTHING is showing up, the admins should be able to freeze withdrawals. Of course if the vendor's customers started to report deliveries and turns out to be legit then the money would be unfrozen. The fact that the admins are idly sitting by while this vendor has run off with over 17 grand off customers is ridiculous. Seriously I dont know why this has not been implemented before. I mean, hell you guys banned a vendor for joking about jenkem but cant stop a vendor from doing serious harm to the community? Proper moderation is needed in all markets and it is SERIOUSLY lacking here on the road.I'm not sure you understand what you're suggesting, would you be comfortable if Silk Road had the ability to go in and remove Bitcoin from known scamming Buyer Accounts? In fact it doesn't really matter if the Account is a Scammer, if I knew Silk Road had the potential to remove all funds from every single Account with the push of a button I would be a lot more worried about that than some scamming Vendor. There's a good reason Silk Road only has authority over Escrow, the second FE is initiated the Buyer is essentially saying "I trust the Vendor, I do not want the services provided by Silk Road to prevent me from getting scammed".Quote from: ChewableETM, lucydrop, tony76, jimmy buffet, i can list a bunch more scammers that many of us warned SR about and SR waited until they made off with a shit load of BTC before SR acted.. I can agree on one point that you cant stop morons from FEing, but SR can limit the amount a vendor can have in FE's and his listings freeze when he exceeds that. a vendor can have as many orders in escrow as they want. but when you see 5 pages of FE and the forums are lit up with no orders being received thats BS...many of the buyers are domestic and it dont take 8 days to get a letter. i have received stuff from Germany, UK and canada in 7 days. the other idea is to limit the amount of FEs a vendor can ask for in a weeks time. than they lose it for a week... by than most orders should be received within 14 days. If you have the smarts to develop SR, finding a way to curb this kind of abuse should be easy.The is actually a very reasonable Compromise, after X amount of complaints the Listings of the Vendor in question lose the ability of Finalizing Early entirely and work as Escrow only until either a sufficient explanation has been given by the Vendor or when Silk Road is done investigating the complaints and manually activate FE capability again. The only problem with this solution is scamming Buyers who could intentionally prevent big-time Vendors who all rely on FE to function, most likely unfortunately nothing like this will get implemented because of this very reason.