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Have they just put a normal come and collect notice in your letter box then? what does it say? unable to deliver? signature required?

It is not unheard of for LEO to attempt a CD in AU with this method but 9 times out of 10 it's just a lazy postie who couldn't be arsed to leave your mail. However given your order is quite small as you say it should have been packaged in something that could have been left in your mail box ok.

Have you contacted the vendor to see if they sent it requiring a signature by mistake? go and find out how the order was packaged etc first, if it was just sent via normal express post you may want to write it off.

info is bought daily from the silk road regardless of  PGP ENCRYPTION.

Having just reviewed your posts you seem to be our new resident FUD spreader.

You can give + and - karma to others once you have made 100 posts.

ssbd

Shame, gave back the bitcoins but quoting the SR team

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only edit buyer stats for any particular transaction in very exceptional circumstances.

So, yeah, but c'est la vie. I'm just gonna leave the update incase anyone has a similar issue

Please send in another customer support ticket and let them know that I asked you to do so, my understanding is that it is totally acceptable to amend buyer stats under the circumstances that you have described.

Right on. The weakest point in PGP is in the decryption. I have heard of some vendors threatening previous buyers later with revealing their information if they don't send them 1BTC for example. Problem there is blackmail like that could go on forever. Maybe the paid informants just need to be paid more.

Are you able to provide some evidence to support this claim? I have seen issues where people have been foolish to hand up their information to forum members with no vendor account lured by the prospect of a free sample only to have their identifiable information used in an extortion attempt. If you have real evidence of vendors doing this please pass it on the the admins otherwise all you are doing is spreading FUD.

Have responded to your PM dirtybiscuitzz718, let me know how you go, you should get a response from SR support in around 12 to 24 hours depending on how busy they are.

ssbd

It is difficult for new buyers to avoid the need to FE and i suspect it is getting harder as more people find their way to SR and the number of 'newbies' increases as vendors experience the highest number of issues with newbies, not necessarily scamming I hasten to add, more having to support and educate people about how to go about using this place safely which is hugely time consuming.

The best advise I can give for those just getting started is do as much research as you possibly can on all aspects of how this place works e.g. PGP, safe drop arrangements, obtaining bitcoin, how escrow works etc all of which can easily be found in the SR wiki. Then once you have identified a few vendors you consider potentially good to buy from send them a PM to introduce yourself and sound them out to build some rapport. If a vendor can see that despite you being new  you know what you are doing and probably won't be a pain in the ass to deal with they may very well let you stay in escrow.

Vendors at the end of the day want smooth transactions the same as the buyers, they do not want to be burning valuable time in the resolution center or responding to messages that need not have even been sent if the sender had taken the time to read the information on the vendors page.

Before you know it you will have enough transactions under your belt and the entire FE issue not longer applies.

ssbd