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Discussion => Silk Road discussion => Topic started by: weedmylips on January 06, 2013, 03:07 am

Title: Vendor account fee reimbursable?
Post by: weedmylips on January 06, 2013, 03:07 am
So this is on the Sellers Guide page now

"Bond
You are required to pay a bond when opening a seller's account that will be refunded to you after you have demonstrated that you are an asset to the Silk Road vendor community. To be eligible for a refund, you must have completed at least 30 transactions totaling $1,500 or more and have been a vendor for at least 6 weeks. To request a refund, send a message to vendor support after you have met these conditions. Meeting the minimum requirements does not guarantee you will be granted a refund. All requests will be reviewed manually. "

So no one should be complaining about the price if you're going to be a reputable vendor
Title: Re: Vendor account fee reimbursable?
Post by: Nightcrawler on January 06, 2013, 03:13 am
So i was reading somewhere that the $500 vendor fee was refundable after you were a vendor for a certain amount of time and are a reputable vendor.

Is this true?

First I've heard of this. Somehow, I doubt that this is true.

NC
Title: Re: Vendor account fee reimbursable?
Post by: weedmylips on January 06, 2013, 03:39 am
Just found the "bond" part in the sellers guide
Title: Re: Vendor account fee reimbursable?
Post by: Nightcrawler on January 06, 2013, 04:15 am
Just found the "bond" part in the sellers guide

You're right... it's a new addition:

Quote
Bond
You are required to pay a bond when opening a seller's account that will be refunded to you after you have demonstrated that you are an asset to the Silk Road vendor community. To be eligible for a refund, you must have completed at least 30 transactions totaling $1,500 or more and have been a vendor for at least 6 weeks. To request a refund, send a message to vendor support after you have met these conditions. Meeting the minimum requirements does not guarantee you will be granted a refund. All requests will be reviewed manually.

NC
Title: Re: Vendor account fee reimbursable?
Post by: BruceCampbell on January 06, 2013, 04:31 am
Mentioned in the vendor forum last week in a post by DPR.
Title: Re: Vendor account fee reimbursable?
Post by: Nightcrawler on January 06, 2013, 11:22 am
Mentioned in the vendor forum last week in a post by DPR.

Those of us who are not vendors do not have access to the Vendor forum, which would explain why we haven't heard of it. Most of are not in the habit of checking out the vendor agreement on a regular basis.

NC
Title: Re: Vendor account fee reimbursable?
Post by: ForeverStrung on January 06, 2013, 11:35 am
Mentioned in the vendor forum last week in a post by DPR.

Vendor Forum? Wheres that located?

Thanks,

FS
Title: Re: Vendor account fee reimbursable?
Post by: Duckman on January 06, 2013, 12:46 pm


Vendor Forum? Wheres that located?

Thanks,

FS

Its on the other forum.

Im not allowed to hand out the URL, so you either know which one I mean or you dont.
Title: Re: Vendor account fee reimbursable?
Post by: BruceCampbell on January 08, 2013, 02:29 am
There is no special URL. And the guy who asked should see it in his menu...

It's a secret forum for vendors where we all talk shit to each other and about customers pretty much.

BC
Title: Re: Vendor account fee reimbursable?
Post by: Hash on January 08, 2013, 02:31 am
Interesting to know.
Title: Re: Vendor account fee reimbursable?
Post by: efodix on January 17, 2013, 01:24 pm
And what happens if someone decides to become a vendor, but the business fails and never takes off? (I'm talking about a real legitimate try, not a scam). Can you drop out and get your bond back?
Title: Re: Vendor account fee reimbursable?
Post by: melonballer on January 17, 2013, 01:48 pm
And what happens if someone decides to become a vendor, but the business fails and never takes off? (I'm talking about a real legitimate try, not a scam). Can you drop out and get your bond back?

No because they would have no incentive to take what they were doing seriously. This is an illegal market with very serious consequences for those caught participating. It's not for people who fancy 'giving it a try'.
Title: Re: Vendor account fee reimbursable?
Post by: SouthSquareBiz on January 17, 2013, 02:45 pm
This is an AWESOME incentive.

I am glad to be hear from the beginning so I can see the growth process of this community.

Hell, this community is run better than many legal businesses I know.
Title: Re: Vendor account fee reimbursable?
Post by: efodix on January 18, 2013, 10:09 am
And what happens if someone decides to become a vendor, but the business fails and never takes off? (I'm talking about a real legitimate try, not a scam). Can you drop out and get your bond back?

No because they would have no incentive to take what they were doing seriously. This is an illegal market with very serious consequences for those caught participating. It's not for people who fancy 'giving it a try'.

Why not? Are you sure about that or are you just pulling things out of your ass?

I mean, you can just make 30 transactions with yourself and get the bond back anyway.
Title: Re: Vendor account fee reimbursable?
Post by: melonballer on January 18, 2013, 10:24 am
And what happens if someone decides to become a vendor, but the business fails and never takes off? (I'm talking about a real legitimate try, not a scam). Can you drop out and get your bond back?

No because they would have no incentive to take what they were doing seriously. This is an illegal market with very serious consequences for those caught participating. It's not for people who fancy 'giving it a try'.

Why not? Are you sure about that or are you just pulling things out of your ass?

I mean, you can just make 30 transactions with yourself and get the bond back anyway.

Not pulling it out of my ass it's just plain common sense than I'm sorry you don't possess. As for your cunning make 30 transactions to yourself plan, I suppose you could do that if you wanted to just give SR a nice %age of your cash after already spending fees transferring your cash to BTC and then after that spending fees transferring it back to real world currency not to mention any washing fees you might want to spend on bitcoin fog. Other than that though your plan sounds great let me know how you get on.
Title: Re: Vendor account fee reimbursable?
Post by: edar on January 18, 2013, 10:52 am
sounds like a great idea
Title: Re: Vendor account fee reimbursable?
Post by: efodix on January 18, 2013, 10:57 am
And what happens if someone decides to become a vendor, but the business fails and never takes off? (I'm talking about a real legitimate try, not a scam). Can you drop out and get your bond back?

No because they would have no incentive to take what they were doing seriously. This is an illegal market with very serious consequences for those caught participating. It's not for people who fancy 'giving it a try'.

Why not? Are you sure about that or are you just pulling things out of your ass?

I mean, you can just make 30 transactions with yourself and get the bond back anyway.

Not pulling it out of my ass it's just plain common sense than I'm sorry you don't possess. As for your cunning make 30 transactions to yourself plan, I suppose you could do that if you wanted to just give SR a nice %age of your cash after already spending fees transferring your cash to BTC and then after that spending fees transferring it back to real world currency not to mention any washing fees you might want to spend on bitcoin fog. Other than that though your plan sounds great let me know how you get on.

If everything was based on common sense, this world wouldn't need lawyers, right? I'm perfectly aware that such a plan would result in a loss of about 18% of assets to SR and optional 2% to bitcoin fog (though if I don't sell anything I don't have anything to hide either), which is still better than a 100% loss if your business plan doesn't work.

As for transferring to real world currency, it might not have occurred to you that I might already have more than enough bitcoins for the purpose, and that I'm not in a huge hurry to convert them to cash. The likely deflation caused by the bitcoin amount limit and an exponentially expanding marketplace being just one of the reasons.

That being said, I hope you aren't as frustrated in real life as you seem to be here. If you are, it looks like you might have a pretty sad existence.
Title: Re: Vendor account fee reimbursable?
Post by: melonballer on January 18, 2013, 11:13 am
And what happens if someone decides to become a vendor, but the business fails and never takes off? (I'm talking about a real legitimate try, not a scam). Can you drop out and get your bond back?

No because they would have no incentive to take what they were doing seriously. This is an illegal market with very serious consequences for those caught participating. It's not for people who fancy 'giving it a try'.

Why not? Are you sure about that or are you just pulling things out of your ass?

I mean, you can just make 30 transactions with yourself and get the bond back anyway.

Not pulling it out of my ass it's just plain common sense than I'm sorry you don't possess. As for your cunning make 30 transactions to yourself plan, I suppose you could do that if you wanted to just give SR a nice %age of your cash after already spending fees transferring your cash to BTC and then after that spending fees transferring it back to real world currency not to mention any washing fees you might want to spend on bitcoin fog. Other than that though your plan sounds great let me know how you get on.

If everything was based on common sense, this world wouldn't need lawyers, right? I'm perfectly aware that such a plan would result in a loss of about 18% of assets to SR and optional 2% to bitcoin fog (though if I don't sell anything I don't have anything to hide either), which is still better than a 100% loss if your business plan doesn't work.

As for transferring to real world currency, it might not have occurred to you that I might already have more than enough bitcoins for the purpose, and that I'm not in a huge hurry to convert them to cash. The likely deflation caused by the bitcoin amount limit and an exponentially expanding marketplace being just one of the reasons.

That being said, I hope you aren't as frustrated in real life as you seem to be here. If you are, it looks like you might have a pretty sad existence.

You're mistaking me being direct with you as me being frustrated with you. You don't frustrate me at all you just come across as naive and I didn't see any reason to beat around the bush with you. If you can't see why rewarding a failed SR businesses with their buy-in back wouldn't benefit SR then there is nothing I can possibly say to enlighten you.