AlphaBay was relaunched on August 7th 2021 and now a year later we are going strong as the top undisputed marketplace. The AlphaBay Staff and everyone working with us want to thank everyone – customers, vendors, fans, haters for giving us their business and faith once more. It is a definitely more challenging environment to work within and reach the #1 spot compared to before but through hard work and professionalism we were able to do it.
To celebrate our anniversary, I have something very special for the community. Already we have seen other markets follow our footsteps by copying AlphaBays features/way of work with I2P adoption being the brightest example and we would like to continue contributing and being the trend leader as we always have been as we see it being crucial to the overall health of the ecosystem and individuals.
Without further to do I very proudly present the AlphaBay Harm Reduction Program – Professional Drug Checkers. Founded in March 2022 when the first samples were received, we were able to achieve an astonoushing 400+ orders over the past few months world wide. Over 100 individual vendors tested with more than 140 individual listings ordered at least twice (to verify from multiple people results).
All orders were made by the programs drug checkers that first I and later on others had recruited. Currently /u/hitch22 is overseeing the majority of the program with /u/erdas managing the UK region. The program works the following way. We cover 100% from:
– The cost of the product and its shipping by vendor
– The cost of reagent test kits
– The cost of labs (and shipping by checker)
We expect(ed) the checkers to submit a review based on a standardised template you can see below:
Testing Template: Listing Name: X Vendor: X Listing ID: X Reagent Test Rating: 0/5 Laboratory Test Reference: X Product/Service Safety: 0/5 Product/Service as Advertised: 0/5 Delivery Speed: 0/5 Overall Experience: 0/5 Comments: Outcome: Scores out of 5. You may write 4.75/5 etc., up to 2 decimal points.
The results varied with some dissapointing and others impressive. Both sides of the spectrum were seen in both small and big vendors. Here is a list of the first 100 vendors that had been tested in no particular order:
USAMP narco710 Simponis partygirlinc firebunnyusa Clockwerk bstdlz WallStreetBets 30boyz suplierinc Fiendish starbucksfrap Debanked Darkpharma Darcside Barstool Loveandhate 4free drugsbypost mephedronerus gethighuk rambouk2uk drugsuk soulplane pabloxanbar thisisholland thefirmuk jonblue20199 bcdrugs roadrunna topcat lucyskydiamonds highquallity topdog mushroomqueen BritishStandard gingercrew RoyalMail ShellUK houseofaddys lloydspharma medindia maling47 openline majesticuk nextgeneration rayfulwhyte gearheadz xanaxndd wispa cocainecartel billybobshouse blackmagicplc drswole fantasticmrfox topshopuk goodgear martell costcoke narcoseu bagsandboxesuk strangerbuds Madmax01 pygmalion qualitykings strawberryfields businessclass moetchandonn socal popsnsmoke Dreamworksdrugs stealthpharmacy exclusivepharma directpharma therealphilmitchell dimma XanInc jiffybagboys caut2tuff superfastuk redbulluk thebodyshop nddnarcs hyperspacestore cokingupbritain socialpharma mephlehem ebayuk ukwhite dcukconnection narcoticsdirect drrelax dimplez shoprite ezbars barbarawhite walterwhitereborn heroinfactory mrbeastusa whitelist topnotchusa monsanto ... and many more
You will be able to see their results in the Harm Reduction tab on their Listing and/or profile. Some results might take a bit until they show up others are already there. We will also post majority of them on the various subs. Some vendors will be happy with their results others will not, those that are not I suggest working on improving your service and product rather than disputing – do not worry at some point you will be retested and improve your rating.
As time goes on and as we test more and more vendors and listings, we will populate the database to include a comprehensive and detailed list of harmful (or not) substances. Not a copied and pasted generic information on the specific drug like other markets do (which you can quickly search on internet anyway) but real up-to-update review that in most cases contains an actual laboratory reference you can look up.
While the program does cost quite a bit from a marketplace perspective, we believe it to be an essential pillar of any self-respecting platform that does actually care about its users, especially one that is the top leading like AlphaBay. That is why it took us a few months to come up with the reveal and entire process which works very well to deliver what is needed. We hope that soon Recon will start showing such data and all marketplaces and/or users can chip in with their reviews. /u/Paris/u/HugBunter
How can you help?
We are looking to add more people to the Professional Drug Checkers team world wide. Most people can apply but we have some basic criteria in place such as to have expressed interest in harm reduction (based on your posts), ideally to have created a review or two as well as be able to work with reagent kits. To begin with you will be given a few orders to test and if you do successfully you will be given further access to work with others from the team.
Benefits from joining the program are as follows:
- You help out the community by alerting for dangerous products or vendors
- You help out the community by reviewing drugs for purity and your personal experience if you wish to take them (we recommend always testing first)
- You get to keep leftover drugs
- You get paid a sign up bonus if you complete rounds of successful orders
- You get paid per order depending of the country (difficulty of testing) and the type of drug you are testing per our standardised payout template
A serious and heavily market-involved harm reduction program has never been done before and while there have been certain independent initiatives over the past few years, none have created a standardized working model of not only checking individual products but also rating them with the help of reagent test kits results and laboratory references.
All of our drug checkers are anonymous to preserve their safety and by cross-checking it with at least 2 independent checkers, the reviews are authentic, verifyable and unbiased. With such a tried and tested system available, at AlphaBay we are certain it will have a huge positive impact on buyer safety as well as on vendor sales of those who are honest.
I am a vendor how does this affect me?
When it comes to vendors the program there is only one requirement: Clearly label your products. If your product has fentanyl or analogue and you failed to disclose it in the listing description you will be permanently banned with no explanation or warning. Customer safety is top priority as such labelling is key whatever the instance it must be labelled. Fentanyl and analogues are literally in all drugs and there is no stopping it, but being very strict on those who are found to have laced it and not disclosed the danger to their clients is something we are going to do. We believe the way to prevent deaths is by well labelled listings (honest vendors) and the market checking those claims where applicable.
Future vision
The Professional Drug Checkers program comes as an important component of the wider vision for a decentralized network of marketplaces. The safety of drugs is a topic that is just as important as handling DDoS or creating secure solutions where money can not be mishandled by law of code, all of which are already issues already answered in the next generation of escrow platforms coming end of this year/early 2023.
A quick note I want to insert is I am still working on tickets and that is my sole focus for the upcoming days and they will be answered to and dealt with to a high satisfactory level. You can see Staff has been busy removing and banning bad vendors with poor product (physical or digital) as well as those that threaten to dox their customers or apply unethical vendor tactics. AlphaBay is the premium number one marketplace and we know from experience to stay at the top spot one of the must-dos is keep the quality of the marketplace and weed out the few bad apples in order to have long term and sustainable growth and business.
Another quick note I am unstickying the ‘We are Back’ posts and have moved them to the wiki – it has been a year now and it is already known we are back. We also have a lot of upgrades to marketplace and Forums around the corner based on feedback and other features we want to bring in to the table.
Once again we would like to thank everyone that have placed their business with us. With the best stability, uptime and security regardless of the multiple (even right now) attacks, we continue to work hard in a professional manner to deliver on our original vision of taking the scene to the next level.
Thank you.