Research on the quality of deep web vs street gear.

[SmokingAces]

On my phone so can't copy and paste. Very interesting though, 93% of 112 samples were tested as what the buyer thought they were buying and nothing else. And the average purity of cocaine is 70% as opposed to 38% street (obviously that's gone up the last couple of years - probably because of markets)

*Link snipped due to containing source material*

 

[Sprout]

Interesting, cheers for the data.

 

[SmokingAces]

Very interesting indeed. And seems about right going by my experience. I would account the other 7% of times with people not receiving the item they paid for its from using shifty suppliers and their too good to be true type offers.

Interesting aswell now the UK is in a state most pills are MDMA, the cocaine has once again got coke in it, yet weed prices are higher than ever and RC's are still a thing. Scenes definitely changed a lot over the last 5 years.

 

[consumer]

Well my first deep web purchase has been astonishing. It really does not get any better than what i had today. I will make another purchase and then i will be right for acid for the next 3 or 4 years at least.

 

[Sprout]

It's a bit of a personal bugbear of mine that the term "RC" is used both accurately (as far as it can be when semantics and legislation meet druggage) and broadly to an unwelcome degree.
Perhaps in the initial few years of the industry the term was sufficient to at least narrow the possibilities down to a handful of compounds, but by this point in time the number of different psychoactives manufactured and used is innumerable. As with the typical illicit drugs the popular few account for the overwhelming majority of use and users: 4-MMC (if one visualises it retaining the RC label in spite of being documented as illicit the world over these days) and XLR-11 may inhabit the same umbrella, but the proportion of individuals experiencing the former is orders of magnitude larger than the latter.

 

[SquidInSunglasses]

It's interesting how the darknet markets are so reliable in the absence of any actual regulation. Everything runs wholly on rep and trust, with the aid of testing services to hold sellers accountable to the quality of their product. It'd be interesting to get a couple of economists from opposing schools of thought to argue over what is pretty indisputably a well-functioning capitalist market with no government oversight.

 

[Sprout]

It's amazing how self-organising and overwhelmingly successful the market is when populated by durty druggiez and society-shattering criminal elements, isn't it? 8)

 

[THECATINTHEHAT]

Not really, money is a great motivator and when you are at the disadvantage of not being able to offer instantaneous service and there are numerous barriers to entry of the market on both sides then you have to be offering something that is going to attract said money.