Silk Road forums

Quote from: jase00 on September 11, 2013, 02:43 am

I've always wondered.. if a seller gets demoted and they still have orders in transit, what happens when the customers finalize ? Does the seller still get the btc ?

to be honest I have no idea, I have asked for an admin to answer this one.

Yes, if a vendor is demoted and they have orders in transit the funds are released to them if / when the buyers finalize. The logic behind that is that if the vendor has sent the order they deserve to be paid for it, and if they haven't sent the order the buyer will take it to resolution and request a 100% refund.

Libertas

Same problem for me, since yesterday...

Your issue is with a Mt.Gox withdrawal, not a Silk Road withdrawal.

Mt.Gox seem to be having withdrawal issues at the moment - anybody having issues with their transfers not appearing on the Blockchain after withdrawing from Mt.Gox will have to take it up directly with them.

Libertas

No, really, I will. Someone help a "Small Timer" into the game.

Im low on cash and cant afford a vendor account. Shrooms are cheap to grow, and I have a bunch on hand right now. When it comes to growing, I can hold my own.

Heres the deal I propose:

I take a pic of 3 oz of dried Psiliocybe Cubensis Mushrooms with your name or any other identifying characteristics. Once you receive that pic you buy a vendor account (with the name I request, not this account). You retain the password to provide a personal escrow. Then I check the site to see that the account does in fact exist. Once Im satisfied that the account is in fact real, I ship a package to you. Ill include a tracking number and stealthy packaging. In effect, you would be my first customer. Once you recieve the package, you would release the password to me, and I would subsequently change that password.

Any takers can email me directly for my PGP key at my anonymous and never clearnet accessed account [REDACTED], I use that account as my relay and will reply via my secure email address.

Consider this your first and only warning; sales are not permitted on the forum, and advertising items for sale on the forums is not permitted without a vendor account. Any further attempts to make sales without a vendor account will result in your account, and any further accounts you set up for that purpose, being deleted.

Libertas

[EDIT: Beaten to it by cirrus - good show!)

Consider this your first and only warning; sales are not permitted on the forum, and advertising items for sale on the forums is not permitted without a vendor account. Any further attempts to make sales without a vendor account will result in your account, and any further accounts you set up for that purpose, being deleted.

Libertas

Quote from: Libertas on September 09, 2013, 11:48 pm

Quote from: heavyreader on September 09, 2013, 11:21 pm

Quote from: samesamebutdifferent on September 09, 2013, 09:25 pm

I'm assuming the deposit turned up ok?

nope    it never appeared so im thinking the person probably just didn't send it, since they won't respond to me now either..  puts me out quite a bit of money..  suckss

Didn't we go over this via SR Support and determine that the deposit hasn't arrived because you used a shared send address, and the BTC hadn't been confirmed at one of the input addresses used to send the BTC from which was causing the issue? It was broadcast onto the network but remains unconfirmed, and will stay unconfirmed until the transfer to the input address that you sent from receives a confirmation.

Libertas

They must have forgotten about that Lib

Indeed!

I just have to get this off my chest but this SR being down all of the time is just becoming ridiculous. How are we as vendors supposed to get our work down while battling the site to stay up. I just do not understand it, while I appreciate the changes of the feedback system etc, it is more important to me to just get the site to work better rather than updating changes. I feel like the staff should at least conquer the goal of keeping the site up ATLEAST 80% of the time.  I have been a vendor here for 2 years now and I always bite my tongue when it comes to the site being down but I am VERY frustrated this time. GRRR

Hopefully ASAP to them means less then 5 hours.

subs

We have uptime of 98%, which - for one of the most popular .onion sites by traffic volume - is pretty damn good.

Silk Road has been live for approximately 950 days. Counting the 14 day period of 'up and down' downtime that the site was largely inaccessible for as one block of constant downtime, and allowing 5 days for previous maintenance and unscheduled downtime (in reality it has been a much less than that, but we'll use that figure for argument's sake), that brings us to total downtime of 19 days out of 950 days.

19 as a percentage of 950 is 2%.

It's hard to argue that uptime of 98% is 'ridiculous' given the nature of Silk Road, and the scope of our adversaries.

Please note that recent connectivity issues have nothing to do with Silk Road; they are, in fact, issues with the Tor network itself being overloaded.

Libertas

i asked one of the vendors and he said he charges so much because he purchased a 5k dollar commercial sealer which i guess is good but idk why you would spend that on a sealer when you arent doing a real lot of big orders if they really did use a commercial sealer. also i think that after 20 orders or so shipping should go back down or whenever they were to pay the piece of equipment off. ive decided to just go through another vendor.

Can you PM me the name of that vendor please?

Libertas