I was promised flying hookers.
I believe this company is planning on that as soon as they get the kinks worked out with taco delivery.
In addition to feedback, there’s the escrow system. The dealer wouldn’t get his money until the deal was finalized. If you never got what you ordered, you’d probably get at least some of your money back. When you consider the cost of buying a vendor account, it made it hard for new vendors to scam people. Most successful scams were by vendors with a lot of reputation.
They don’t check the majority of packages, especially domestic ones. If they do figure it out, then if it’s a personal amount, they’ll probably just dispose of it. If it’s more than a personal amount, they’re likely to have an undercover police officer try to deliver it and bust you for possession. They really don’t have much evidence until you receive it.
As in the vendor might be an undercover cop? That’s a possibility, but the cops are more worried about busting sellers than buyers, plus the whole reputation thing. Also, unless I’m not mistaken, they can’t really prosecute you until they catch you in possession, and since they’re not going to actually send you the drugs through the mail, the necessary resources to catch a few buyers probably isn’t worth it.
They’ve never dealt child pornography and look down on that as much as anyone else. There was a sister site that had weapons for sale, but that was closed and anything that was likely to be used to harm someone was prohibited.
So you think possession of a personal amount of heroin or cocaine is deserving of a felony and possible prison time?
Double post
Great analysis, snailboy.
I thought about number 3 more also, and have perfect loophole for that:
“I never bought the drugs and gave the address, someone is out to frame me, perhaps.”
And yes, I am against the war on drugs. I think a person has the right to any substance they want so long as it isn’t hurting anyone else. Where you draw that line is a tough question, but the fact that MARJIUANA (which is harmless) is illegal is dangerous.
Imagine your whole life people say “drugs are bad, M’kay?” And they have you completely convinced. Then one day someone finally convinces you to take a hit of marijuana. You take it and realize it is completely fucking harmless, and start wondering if maybe that is true of other drugs. Next thing you know they find you dead on the toiler, heroine overdose.
Yeah, Marijuana COULD be a gateway drug - because when you find out you’ve been lied to you begin to question the system.
I take a drug every day at work. It enhances my performance, and often makes it poorer. I am a real asshole without it, too. In fact, I’m pretty useless at work until…
Until I have my caffeine.
If they find the drug and decide it’s worth their time to try to bust you with it (usually only for a large amount), they’ll make you sign for it indicating that it is yours. Of course there are still ways of virtually elimating risk, but I think I’ve said enough.
(Mandatory Simpsons clip ala snailboy’s sudden paranoia)
I don’t, honestly, think enough can be said. This is going to happen again, soon. We have two choices:
A. Ignore it and it goes unchecked
B. Take some sort of partial ownership of it as a nation.
It seems like we are going with B so far, by shutting it down, but more will spring up.
Note the first-in-command, Ross Ulbricht, is serving life:
Username checks out.
According to the book Tracers in the Dark - which is about the law enforcement groups that investigate cyber crimes - it was a message board post that lead them to Ulbricht.
Ulbricht had made posts promoting his site on some druggie message boards under the name Altoid. He also posted to a software coding forum under the name Altoid. In one of those posts he had requested some information via e-mail and he gave his real e-mail address which was a variant of his real name.
After he got the information he needed, he went back and deleted the post with his e-mail address, but he failed to realize that someone that responded to the post had quoted his original post, e-mail address included.
This mistake provided the clue that eventually lead to his arrest.
Sounds like “Alt” had no control over his delete.
Unless Trump makes the DoJ give them back.
Trump pledged to free Ulbricht, a convicted drug dealer and wannabe murderer. From the link above:
“The scum that worked to convict him were some of the same lunatics who were involved in the modern day weaponization of government against me. He was given two life sentences, plus 40 years. Ridiculous!”
I think the revealing part is “same lunatics as […] against me”. And his voters were OK with that or did not care and still do not know. It has always been like that with tanTrump.
Many former pardonees of tanTrump have become recidivists and found thenselves back in jail. There is still hope, I can’t see Ulbricht becoming honest. It is still unbelievable.
Why would trump pardon him? Is it only about a “donation”? Quid pro quo?
Is it simply corruption all the way down?
To own the libs? It’s the most sensical explanation I can think of.
“We need to tariff Canada and Mexico because they let drugs come in. Also, I’m releasing this guy who made a giant illegal drug marketplace.”
Don’t look for logic.
That’s all fine, but all the MAGA are not insane in the same way. SOMEONE must notice the contradiction. Pardoning him must make some sense, somehow, to someone, even if it is insane sense.
He’s Jr’s plug.