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I've been lurking for months with special attention to how I might make myself not look like a scammer with things like this going on.

I think that inflating feedback is an obvious ploy. If you see someone with multiple feedbacks for the same item, all in a row... As someone mentioned above, being forced to buy 1g at a time for a 3g order so that feedback can/must be left for 3 different orders... Establish a written policy for SR in the BUYER'S GUIDE that mentions this technique and how noobs can identify it. Also, that buyers who experience such a multi-purchase request deliberately leave copy/pasted feedback such that we can see what is going on. Even if the transaction is smooth, this is still an indicator of someone who will soon run a scam.

Although it doesn't apply to the product(s) I would like to sell, a sudden jump in quantity sold is a strong indicator. Again, time is the buyer's ally. If the seller shows a history of 1/8 and 1/4 sales, then suddenly has a QP up at a REALLY good price.... Maybe wait for a review to come back on that, eh? If a bunch of people start buying that obvious bad idea all at once......... If you draw it out a bit, then it becomes not worth it for a scammer. He'll have to keep shipping product when he originally planned to take the money and run. Good for the buyer, but, again, makes it hard on the legit sellers trying to get established an/or grow...

Scammers make it very hard for a new guy to get started. Especially one who goes out of his way to look good, because now he might look 'too' good.... Very frustrating. I still haven't bought my SR account because I'm broke and need to earn back my investment. Already hard to do if I'm selling in a low-volume, non-drug category, much less with all this suspicion... About the only draw to buying things off of SR that are perfectly legal, would be to save money; to be able to buy said items cheaper than anywhere else. Will that cast a shadow of doubt onto me? It certainly will, but what else do I have?

I want to be able to tell people about techniques like this if SR doesn't. I already submitted a good idea for identifying shipment tampering and they did not post it anywhere...

...and that is: "pgp -ea foo.jpg" is a picture of the box. Cut, Paste, Send. Receiver can then un pgp the thing, name it whatever.jpg and view the picture. Encrypted, uses the SR messaging system not email... If it has foreign tape, more layers, slits covered by non-transparent tape that wasn't on the box in the original image... You get the idea. Being able to see what the box looked like before it was sent gives you a damn good idea of what has or hasn't happened to it in transit. Be kind enough to delete the image message asap so it doesn't hog a ton of space in the SR database.

Also, if you suddenly have a new delivery person who tries to get you to say it's yours, or make you sign for something you shouldn't have to sign...  You get the idea.... Know your mail (wo)man.

Also, truecrypt is too easy NOT to use. If you aren't using it (or something similar), you're just damn lazy (has nothing to do with pgp/gpg). A triple-cascade encrypted hard drive is invincible without the PW.

This is all for oral/sublingual/insufflated doses, not IV or IM:

On a low dose MXE (20-40mg) everything it confusing and you feel "fucked up." Almost like you keep forgetting something but you don't remember what it was. You may stumble when trying to walk, very similar to the Soma Shuffle. 

On a medium dose (40-80mg) you feel pronouncedly more "fucked up." It is harder to speak in a normal way, you speak slower and people can tell you are messed up. When you close your eyes, you feel like you are sinking down and down into the earth. The confusion increases and thinking patterns are very skewed. Walking is much harder.

On higher doses (80-140mg) you start losing touch with reality. It is almost like you exist in a couple realities and keep popping back and forth, especially at 100+ mg dose. Laying down with your eyes closed results in a strong sinking feeling. Depth perception is skewed. Time starts blurring. Your concept of self and everything else starts blurring, which is especially true when you go above 100mg. This is when you get a taste of ego death. Trying to walk will result in stumbling all over the place, very serious loss of balance.

At 150+ mg you start completely losing touch with reality. Ego death takes over. You feel like you are sinking into eternity. Time is completely fucked. Be careful as you will do things you don't remember - that is if you can even move. Trying to walk is damn near impossible, so it is better not to try. Sit back and enjoy the ride.

If you have ever taken high dose psychedelics you may understand ego death. It is when your sense of self and everything else doesn't exist. You are experiencing existence not as "you" but as everything. Words do it no justice, it is simply not something you can explain and capture its true essence. A good way to first experience ego death is with a short lasting psychedelic such as DMT (amazing) or salvia (terrifying.) An ego death dose of MXE would for me be at least 150mg.

Everyone reacts differently so before trying even a small dose it is best to take a allergy-test dose (~1mg) first to be safe. Since you have no experience with dissociatives then you really should start small.