I've been on the Dark Web. How do you know if the profiles and reviews you find are real? They could be planted by the same scam vendors to make themselves seem legit.
Yeah, don't get me wrong, it's not fool proof. There are fake sellers/profiles of many things on both clear and darknet. There's always a risk of being scammed when buying anything online but there are things you can use to better discern and balance the risk. On darknet there are things like Dread and Recon that can be used to look up the vendors you're checking out and more importantly other peoples views and experiences. Also on the profiles on the markets they operate on there are things they don't have control over which are things like total sales - disputes ratios and how many have been won or lost. You can also often, wirh a trained eye extrapolate things from their terms and conditions and the listings themselves. Generic pics and copy pasted or poor grammatical terms are often a bad sign. With the reviews, they can be faked, of course but even amongst any fake reviews there would still be negative ones from real people that got scammed. Obviously if there are very few sales that may not happen and as I started out by saying, there is always risk. Including buying from D. However on dark net markets there's an escrow system to make it harder to scam people. You release payment when your delivery arrives and if it doesn't within a period of time you bring it up with the seller. Each has their own pre agreed way of dealing with this predicament but some reship free and some split the cost of a reship with you. If you feel you're being treated unfairly you can raise a dispute and a moderator steps in. My point really was just that when it comes to narcotics/drugs the dark net has the best facilities to mitigate risk. Buying from a clearnet site is literally a stab in the dark with now chance of follow up or recourse if you don't receive your items. It also has no anonymity and therefore carries further risk.
All this said, please don't do anything based on what I say. I'm broken. I forget things. I overlook things and get things wrong sometimes. I'm speaking from my experiences but yours may differ and honestly I have no desire to convince anyone to do anything baswd on the information I post on the forum. I post largely for the sake of talking on a subject and for my own benefits. Pkease do your own research and due diligence if you decide to venture into any kind of online purchasing but I will say this,..the risk of buying off some random clear net site is high and has no recourse.
On the subject of me getting things wrong, I posted at some point in the belief that ISO is legal (that is to say no illegal) in most places and I assumed the US to be one of them. I'm reading conflicting info on that now and it seem that is may well be illegal in the US. Sometimes it's worded like its being added to a bill and other times as though its already added. Either way, if it was seen by a customs officer (legal or not) they would test it under suspicion. This is why it comes up in drug bust even where its legal/not illegal. From what I can tell it is still not illegal in the UK. Though concerns have been raised about it along with its sister compounds.
Honestly it's not something anyone should purchase without a decent bit of consideration for various factors. One of which would be can you even store or handle it safely as people have apparently died just from being in contact with it by either smelling/sniffing it or apparently absorbing it into their skin. I don't know how true that is but it is very fucking strong and that is the main reason it isn't used in medicine fron what I've been reading.
