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Discussion => Silk Road discussion => Topic started by: Jediknight on January 22, 2013, 04:36 pm
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I notice vendors have all these very pretty pictures of their products.
Unfortunately what is delivered doesn't look anything at all like what's in the pictures.
It's clearly false advertising.
It's mostly to do with weed MDMA and cocaine and hash and heroin.
I'm not sure vendors are just too lazy to update the pictures when they get new product.
Just the other day I ordered some MDMA in the picture showed it was tan colored sand type Which is what I wanted. But what was delivered was a white powder. And it had no effect I consumed 500 mg of MDMA in one dose. This should've been downright lethal dose.
Is there anyway we can enforce the product pictures to resemble the actual product?
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Short answer is a lot of times the same picture stays up but batches change...
A lot of times your product has to be broken down for shipping, eg; MDMA
And sometimes you're just a victim of the classic bait and switch, not much you can do.
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That's a good post. But I think it's not too hard to snap a photograph. I work in marketing so I think pictures are everything they should be updating those all the time. I would love to be the guy who designs the pictures for the vendors. They need some graphic designers to spruce up the photographs a bit and throw some text in there and make it look real nice.
If any vendors are reading message me on the graphic designer I can design you some really nice product pictures. I guarantee an increase in sales based on the pictures alone.
Sadly the MDMA was from one of the biggest vendors. I won't say his name. My best guess is that one of his employees must be ripping him off They are taking the good stuff and replacing it with some inert white powder. It seems to be only things that are resembling white powder That is vendor seems to have troubles with.
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Another example and again I won't use any names - I bought some hash that was pictured as Moroccan. What was delivered look nothing out all like the picture. And it certainly wasn't Moroccan. I mean it was good but it wasn't Moroccan. Course I should've known better because the price was too good to be Moroccan.
Vendors that show Crystal meth shards. I've never had those big shards in the pictures. I always get the powder and the little bits and cloudy looking crystals.
I don't come off as a complainer. We are truly blessed for this resource that is silk Road.
Again I would love to design the product pictures for the vendors. Something snazzy and high-resolution type photographs.
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False advertising? If you get good gear, does it really matter? Once it is of high quality and it is the drug I paid for, I don't care. Besides, it's not like you can go to the advertising standards authority and make a complaint. It is an underground market ;)
The TOR network can be slow, batches of product change, vendors can be extremely busy, they may have loads of messages to answer etc - these are just some of the reasons that pictures may not get updated. Anything I have received has looked fairly similar to the pictures to be honest.
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Good point I'm sure these vendors are very busy. And like you say if you're getting good gear what does it matter what the pictures say.
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I agree with all the above, but an alternate way of thinking: why didn't those girls on myspace ever look like they did in their pictures, in real life?
science is fuckin' crazy, man.
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I agree with all the above, but an alternate way of thinking: why didn't those girls on myspace ever look like they did in their pictures, in real life?
science is fuckin' crazy, man.
Ahhh, the awkward moment when you realise your date's online picture is about 8 years out of date :)
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Ahhh, the awkward moment when you realise your date's online picture is about 8 years out of date :)
hey, you got off easy if it was just an outdated picture - it's those photoshopped/straight-up-stolen picture ones that really made it awkward at the bar :P
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Ahhh, the awkward moment when you realise your date's online picture is about 8 years out of date :)
hey, you got off easy if it was just an outdated picture - it's those photoshopped/straight-up-stolen picture ones that really made it awkward at the bar :P
Very true :) I could write a book on awkward moments!!!!
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No kidding. Or when you're blind date turns out to have a penis surprise. Couldn't see that in the picture. Hehe
I really like looking at all those pictures of products. Shit I even masturbate to those great pictures!
Does anybody else here masturbate to drug porn on SR?
I don't even check a real porn anymore I just look at the pretty pictures on silk Road and beat off to that.
So you can see why I am gung ho about the pictures. Hehe.
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Ahh those classic face shots on social networking sites very skinny looking, but they're pictured full body on a night out.. SHES MASSIVE!!!! Not that I judge or nothing ::)
Product pictures are tricky especially for MDMA, cocaine and meth listings, users need to bare in mind most of these products need to be crushed slightly or even completely in order for them to arrive safely.. what use is it a vendor sending a 5g moonrock when customs could easily intercept it after feeling something suspicious, as opposed to 5g crushed that that could fit into a business styled envelope?
Think people, think! But I do agree some standard should be maintained to show roughly. If pictures can't be updated, at least update the listing description
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I personally think that if someone cheats you in any way, you SHOULD mention a name. I see a lot where people say that they won't say who did it. But honestly if you don't then why would the vendor ever change? Why not just keep doing it? You know?
It isn't unheard of for vendors to have great feedback and be honest, then one day scam the hell out of a lot of people and disappear. Who knows maybe if more people did report that kind of thing and made it known, it could stop something like that from happening.
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Would you go back to McDonalds and tell them your Big Mac didn't look like the one on the picture?
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lol, not to step on toes, but a 3.99 big mac, compared to a high dollar order that you jumped thru hoops to get is slightly different.
And you know that there are lots of people that do get their food and send that shiz right back because it looks like garbage lol.
If I buy what is advertised as brown mdma, and end up with a clearly cut white mdma (which is easier to cut) and ends up being worthless, then I am going to be unhappy as well.
I guess you just have to get a bum order of something you wanted and went threw the trouble to get to understand.
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lol, not to step on toes, but a 3.99 big mac, compared to a high dollar order that you jumped thru hoops to get is slightly different.
And you know that there are lots of people that do get their food and send that shiz right back because it looks like garbage lol.
If I buy what is advertised as brown mdma, and end up with a clearly cut white mdma (which is easier to cut) and ends up being worthless, then I am going to be unhappy as well.
I guess you just have to get a bum order of something you wanted and went threw the trouble to get to understand.
I understand what you're saying but no reputable vendor will sell white when really it's tan or visa versa.
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Would you go back to McDonalds and tell them your Big Mac didn't look like the one on the picture?
You stole my my joke :'( lol. Guess I have to type faster.
Anyway, ( sticking with the mcd's analogy ) yea if you ordered a big MAC and got a dollar menu burger than I could see being upset.
It's important to take the time to read the description. Looks like some people just use stock pics while others take time to take detailed pictures.
Good communication from both parties could prevent the kind of misunderstandings you are talking about.
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Would you go back to McDonalds and tell them your Big Mac didn't look like the one on the picture?
Although I agree with that in a certain way, it still doesn't give any vendor (myself included) to advertise falsely.
If you are selling MDMA and have a picture of tan stock, and the description tells people they are getting tan crystals but when the product is sent it is pink crystals - then how credible are you really? You've already lied to them.
It's a totally different product than what the buyer actually paid their own money for.
But, if the product is of equal quality then who gives a shit really... But, you know what I mean. :)
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We put up pics with the date for every new batch. its a good suggestion to other vebdors.
ACE
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I will say it has pissed me off on numerous occasions on here where I have bought some dynamite looking weed from the pictures only to be delivered horsefeed.
As a result I stopped buying weed on here altogether and went back to the street, since buying weed you really like to visually inspect it and when the only measurement you have to gauge it's potency on here is to closely inspect photo's, if strains are significantly different to the photo advertising it in both look and potency, then people should have every right to get their money back or at least some of.
As for chemicals I think it's a different story, as long as the potency is there in your product you shouldn't complain.
- JWM
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Think about the pictures used in advertisements for fast food burgers vs. what actually gets served. Also, have you not noticed that the same picture will correspond to a dozen different listings? I think it's best to regard the pictures on SR as a "general idea of what your product might look like in an ideal world" and not read too much more into it than that.
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We always either have current pics or let people know that new pics are on their way, & rarely let it go for more than a week before we get updated. However it is a little bit of work to keep everything for the site current as well as running everything else at optimal capacity sometimes. Most vendors will let web pics slide a bit to try to get orders out as timely as possible, & updating pics often get left on the back burner. You have to realize that getting everything ready for keeping web pages up & current are not necessarily most venders specialty! IT's just one of the many hats they have to wear to be productive.
NCK
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lol, not to step on toes, but a 3.99 big mac, compared to a high dollar order that you jumped thru hoops to get is slightly different.
And you know that there are lots of people that do get their food and send that shiz right back because it looks like garbage lol.
If I buy what is advertised as brown mdma, and end up with a clearly cut white mdma (which is easier to cut) and ends up being worthless, then I am going to be unhappy as well.
I guess you just have to get a bum order of something you wanted and went threw the trouble to get to understand.
I understand what you're saying but no reputable vendor will sell white when really it's tan or visa versa.
I've seen it loads of times actually.. Some of the biggest MDMA vendors were doing it.
OldAmsterdam has a picture of nice white rocks, but when I ordered a gram off him for a friend the friend told me it was tan.
Everyone was saying that Symbiosis had a picture of tan rocks and was selling grey stuff a while back.
Obviously there product is still next to none regarding quality.. It just looks different than their pictures.
I've even seen some vendors actually have the same pictures as each other, which is just stupid, really.. How credible can one be if they are stealing their competitors images? ???