Quote from: buybuy555 on August 21, 2012, 09:59 pmmaybe something like FE on ur 1st 5 transactions with the vendors having to send it recorded delivery and then make it no longer a option and also then to make all orders under 100, cos lets face it, 75% + members are jus buying for personal use and not in bulk...This is quite possibly the most ridiculous suggestion I've ever read here: "make all orders under 100, cos lets face it, 75% + members are jus buying for personal use and not in bulk..."Why not do the opposite? Why not make all orders over 100 seeing as the 25% of us who buy in bulk contribute larger amounts of commission (altogether) on our $500+ regular bulk purchases, and just say 'to hell' with the personal buyers?I'll tell you why we don't do these things - because it wouldn't be fair. Why should I be restricted from buying just because you and the other 75% of members buying small amounts can't make a decision for yourselves not to FE? Why should I, a buyer with impeccable stats and over $8,000 spent here, be prohibited from buying products in bulk simply because I have the wherewithal to research my vendors before placing an order with them, and the common sense not to leave the safety of the escrow system?!If a buyer gets scammed, it is always as a result of their OWN actions. THEY choose to FE on deals. THEY choose not to research their vendors before placing orders and subsequently releasing their money from escrow.Finalising Early, whilst I will always recommend against doing so, is a Vendor's choice to ask for (once they've made 35 transactions and been selling for over a month) and a buyer's choice to agree to or decline. I don't see where the issue is?!If a vendor requires FE, use a vendor who doesn't. If you're unhappy with the terms set out by the vendor, use somebody else. It's honestly NOT that difficult, people.Many of us have been doing business on here for a long time with absolutely no problems at all (apart from the tony76 fiasco, but we should've seen that coming in the way he conducted business before the scam); it seems that the vast majority that get scammed are new users who fail to perform their due diligence before making a purchase.Perhaps it's the excitement that makes them lose their self-control. Perhaps it's the awe that something like Silk Road actually exists. Perhaps it's neither, and they're just incredibly naive and have neglected to read the buyer's guide, then come to the forums to do the necessary research.This is NOT Amazon people. This is the underground drug world. Treat it as such. Hell, you wouldn't Finalise Early on Amazon if you had the choice of escrow; why would you do it for an anonymous purveyor of delightful narcotic delicacies on a deepweb drug site?!Common sense is what's needed, not a ban on FE and reducing the maximum value of transactions. Jesus, some of the things people are saying here these days are literally killing off my brain cells as I read them.(And buybuy555 - you're pulling your 75%/25% statistics right out of your ass, just like 87.5% of all other statistics to be found anywhere, ever.)