Quote from: Lorimer on July 08, 2013, 09:52 pmQuote from: SelfSovereignty on July 08, 2013, 09:10 amYou raise a fascinating point. They didn't take their investment far enough: they should have given away 20 dollar coupons to all new customers that are verified as being "real people." Verifying customers as real people seems about as good an idea as changing their name to DEAtlantis. I get what you're saying but asking for anything more than an anonymous email address would just increase the honeypot paranoia. What they could do is buy a vendors account on SR & then use that to give away coupons to SR buyers w good stats - tho then they'd really end up looking like scavenging parasites. If they pretend SR doesn't exist & just focus on building their own business they'll do better. There's an opportunity for them in attractive small time/beginner vendors who find SR too pricey or too competitive & if they can keep their prices low enough they will eventually attract customers. It would help if their forums were better, tho. They're underestimating how important this place is for helping/encouraging newbie buyers.Oh, I just meant an email address that wasn't a random string of characters kind of verification and possibly that exists -- obviously you can't very well ask people for their name or something :) I see your point, but the problem (in my mind) is this: the lower fees only attract vendors. True, lower prices will attract customers (one would think anyway), but that's not actually a visible benefit of lower fees unless you compare side by side, and with listings that go in & out of stock that's kinda hard to do even if you want to.And how many people can really be shopping for bargains like that on the dark net?