Quote from: CaptainMal on October 13, 2012, 02:23 amI just saw a new pill vendor pop up who advertises requiring FE, wanting addresses via privnote, and not knowing how to use PGP. That and they had to beg for the money to open a vendor account.WTF. I hope buyers are careful when choosing a vendor and do their research first!A new vendor wanting customers to FE early, is in violation of the terms of the Seller's Agreement. From the Seller Agreement, that I previously posted: QuoteNOTICE: If you are a new vendor, you may not ask your customers to finalize their orders and release payment to you before you ship, a practice known as "finalizing early". If you do this, you will lose your selling priviledges. Once you have completed 35 successful transactions and have been a seller for at least one month, you may ask your customers to finalize early without reprocussion. In no way do we support finalizing early in general and this rule should not be construed as support for finalizing early for more established vendors. Time to 'name and shame' them. New vendors cannot require FE, they must remain in escrow. Not providing a PGP public key, is also in violation of the terms of the Vendor Agreement, although the enforcement thereof appears to be lax in the extreme. Not using PGP and promoting the use of unsafe sites like Privnote are definitely warning signs for the wary to stay away. Furthermore, one has to wonder how they'll come up with the money for packaging equipment like vacuum sealers and the like. Sounds either like a scammer or someone starting on a shoestring -- not good either way.