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    Go online

    Post advertisement for obvious scam

    Get no sales

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    Spend more money on advertising

    Get a few tiny nibbles at my scam

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    Spend enormous amounts of money on advertising

    Finally, some traction. Approaching break-even point. I can see the light of day on the horizon. Perhaps I can turn a profit in another few months.

    Look at my budget. Oops! All Advertising!

    Realize I could have operated a real for-profit business that made something useful and turned a profit much faster

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    Cops secretly love it when you prove that you’ve not broken the law. They will test you by contradicting you, but you just gotta raise your voice and gesticulate wildly, and they will come around to your way of thinking. The longer you argue your point, the more they will respect you

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    If I was buying mystery boxes of mystery shit on the deep web and ended up with a box of girl scout cookies I wouldn’t even be mad.

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    I don’t know how people mess around on the dark web. I used Tor to bounce around onion sites back in ~2011 and learned my lesson. I haven’t been back on since. Eff that. First of all, way too slow and finding sites is a pain. But even when I did find sites, it was too dangerous and creepy. I rather not even know what’s on there. I can get obsessed with how shitty humanity is.

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      Unfortunately, it’s currently the most reliable way to get LSD and MDMA… :'(

      Never though I would miss my shady AF dealer from the '90s and '00s

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        91 day ago

        Seeing the extremely affordable insulin for sale on a dark web marketplace was my biggest takeaway from my quick poking around. That on its own should be incredibly damning

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      So long as you’re tech-savvy it’s not hard at all to make a safe, secure purchase (or so I’ve heard).

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          Ehhhh, mental outlaw made a video on just that topic a few hours ago.

          TLDW: people didn’t update packages for illegal tings, glowys rolled up.

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            Yup. My takeaway from that video is:

            1. Don’t do illegal stuff
            2. If you do illegal stuff, don’t get chatty about it

            The more packets they have to work with, the more likely they can track you down.

            So if you’re going to buy illegal stuff, make sure the website is as simple as possible (so less packets flying around for things like images) and keep the transaction short.

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    622 days ago

    If this was real I’d be interested in the details. Did anon accept fiat or crypto? Were the boxes advertised mainly on the darknet itself? Or clearnet, and if clearnet how did they get users that know wtf an onion link is or how to use it? Were the police alerted by an irate customer calling the police near the return address, or were the cops buying the cookies as a sting operation?

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        41 day ago

        Nobody just gives away $200, and buying a “mystery box” from an anonymous stranger is the same thing.

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          223 hours ago

          Plenty of people do though. When you’re advertising a mystery box for $200, the average person won’t be interested, but there are plenty of whales who just have to know what’s in it.

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            221 hours ago

            Perhaps “nobody” is slight exaggeration. But I guarantee that more people would buy Girl Scout cookies for $5 than a mystery box for $200.