but what happened to the basic principles of Econ101?...Know your market...go download tor and do some market research people.
I took action on your advice and went for a visit. Pretty interesting I gotta say... some of the transactions are obviously quite large too after browsing some of the listings and recent feedback.
The one question I had to myself was: whats stopping these sellers from signing up as buyers and performing a 'fake buy' to leave themselves more positive feedback? I'm no expert on this, but wont Tor itself will prevent basic security measures other sites may use like logging account IP's etc...
Or the Feds from doing so to start sniping off buyers?
Although, I'd suspect what they really want is to find the proprietor.
Except sniping a buyer makes no sense. A buyer is probably buying a few pills at a time. No real cash is exchanged. They're just receiving pills in the mail from someone anonymously. A lot of drug busts occur so they can get the small-time users and dealers to rat out the bigger users/dealers. In this instance, a buyer has no idea who the seller is.
You might gather what city that seller might be in, or close to, but that's it. If someone from New York City is making drop-off mailings from the countless public mail boxes, good luck with that. Not only that, but they have many many *other* boxes to throw it into within an hour or two drive outside NYC, not to mention stores "hey I need to mail this, can you throw it into your outgoing mail?" No one is going to risk looking inside of it in fear of tampering with mail, etc.