I just want a definitive answer on why you allow scammers to continue trading on Silk Road.
Over the last 2 weeks I have seen tens of threads about people being scammed by sellitall99. Some for HUGE amounts. It's all over reddit too. Anyone who has used the vendor before knows they are based in Canada. But for around a month now they have been claiming to be UK based, with impossibly low prices. Yesterday they faked 18 feedbacks.
I make yet another thread about this vendor in Silk Road Discussion, for maximum visibility. One of the staff had the time to read the thread and decide to move it, yet cannot take 5 minutes to investigate these 18 transactions. I'm sure if you do it will become very obvious that this guy is a scammer... well it's already very obvious but if you want to be thorough just look at those 18 transactions.
I understand the development staff are busy... they should be, the site very rarely works as intended what with incorrect DDoS flag messages, captcha bugs, server overloads and just general downtime. But the staff that are not involved in development... what the hell are you doing all day that keeps you sooooooooooooooooo busy that you cannot take 5 minutes to investigate scammers? It really boggles the mind considering how good other sites have been at removing scammers, and SR is supposed to be the cream of the crop.
If the non-development staff really are so crippingly busy that they cannot do anything about scammers, why don't you employ someone to deal specifically with that? Seeing as DPR 2 bragged about millions and millions of dollars in cold storage escrow, I'm sure that you guys can afford it. If you can't, then perhaps you could explain to me why smaller sites can, because I am thoroughly confused.
I'm sure I'll get negative karma'd to hell for this thread, and that's such a shame that so many people just nuthug the SR team and will downvote me purely for challenging them. I don't want to cross SR or it's staff but these things need to be said and all I'm trying to do here is help this community. We need answers on why you insist on allowing scammers to stay active for as long as possible. It makes you look really, really bad.
Staff are very busy and are working on a lot of things, including scammers.
Please be patient and for now i recommned people use the escrow system and do not FE if you are aworried about being scammed.
Also i recommned doing your research and searching the forums for feedback on vendors so you can see the warning signs that things may not be great with them.
Escrow is there for your protection, happy shopping!