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Discussion => Silk Road discussion => Topic started by: Diamond on April 08, 2013, 06:15 pm

Title: What can a vendor see about me?
Post by: Diamond on April 08, 2013, 06:15 pm
[I *think* this question goes here...]

As a buyer, I'm curious what information about me is available to prospective vendors. I recently returned after a decent hiatus from SR, to make a few purchases, and as expected all my messages and account history have been purged off. My concern was that vendors would see me as a "new" buyer and request that I finalize early or jump through some other hoops to make my orders, even though I've jumped through those hoops a long time ago.

Do vendors "rate" buyers on the proper site? Are those permanent?
Title: Re: What can a vendor see about me?
Post by: SelfSovereignty on April 08, 2013, 06:36 pm
Go to http://silkroadvb5piz3r.onion/account/buyer_stats -- that's what they see.  The link is available from your account page for future reference.
Title: Re: What can a vendor see about me?
Post by: coachella420 on April 08, 2013, 07:54 pm
My secret tor tool allows me to watch you masturbate.
Title: Re: What can a vendor see about me?
Post by: OpiumTea on April 08, 2013, 08:12 pm
We can only see how long you have been a member, how many purchases you have made, how much you have spent, your refund rate and how many transactions you have let auto finalize..

Nothing personal.. just helps vendors decide weather to continue with your order etc..
Title: Re: What can a vendor see about me?
Post by: anom on April 08, 2013, 09:38 pm
also, and correct me if i am wrong, but a vendor can only see these stats when you purchase one of their items, right?
Title: Re: What can a vendor see about me?
Post by: CannaKingUK on April 08, 2013, 10:37 pm
also, and correct me if i am wrong, but a vendor can only see these stats when you purchase one of their items, right?

Correct
Title: Re: What can a vendor see about me?
Post by: Arcturian on April 08, 2013, 11:32 pm
We can see your number of transactions, your refund rate, your auto finalize rate & your total bitcoins spent, nothing you need to worry about us knowing about you, its not like we know what you had for breakfast last wednesday or anything  :)

As soon as we mark your order as in transit your stats are no longer viewable by us. Its a small price to pay as after your first 5 transactions we trust you to finalize on time and such. Just get past those 5 transactions and you'll have nothing to worry about :)
Title: Re: What can a vendor see about me?
Post by: Diamond on April 09, 2013, 05:33 am
Go to http://silkroadvb5piz3r.onion/account/buyer_stats -- that's what they see.  The link is available from your account page for future reference.

Whoops, guess I could have found that one on my own, haha. Thanks.

We can see your number of transactions, your refund rate, your auto finalize rate & your total bitcoins spent, nothing you need to worry about us knowing about you, its not like we know what you had for breakfast last wednesday or anything  :)

As soon as we mark your order as in transit your stats are no longer viewable by us. Its a small price to pay as after your first 5 transactions we trust you to finalize on time and such. Just get past those 5 transactions and you'll have nothing to worry about :)

Yeah, I'm definitely past that point haha. I was just worried that those numbers might "clear out" after a while like messages or anything, and vendors would see me as having 0 purchases. But I can see that in the above link I'm good. Wasn't worried about other info beyond what I encrypt and send to vendors. Honestly I'm glad that vendors have some access to non-specific info, keeps the trust level higher.

Thanks guys