What Products and Services That Can Be Purchased On the Darknet Markets?

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What Products and Services That Can Be Purchased On the Darknet Markets? Darknet markets are basically Dark net Links where goods are put up for sale. There are many goods and products that are on sale on these Darknet markets and there are various markets that are in the list which offer similar kind of services. All the products that are listed on the Best Dark web Websites are not legal and if done a detailed study on these types of markets, it will reveal that most of them are illegal. These markets are also popularly known as crypto market. The name goes hand in hand because most of the transaction that takes place happens through various Cryptocurrencies. In the simplest term, these are online marketplace for illegal goods which operate not on the surface web but on the .onion Sites Link. Darknet markets unique selling point is the availability of the various types of Drugs, and according to a major research organization, 150 million dollars worth of drugs were sold on the Darknet markets in the year 2015. These online marketplaces surprisingly have user review system which is quite similar to e commerce sites like E-bay and Amazon where ratings are given to these .onion Sites Links vendors for their services. Vendors who deliver the goods as promised receive higher ratings and are rewarded with a better reputation over time. Darknet market vendors offer resources to buyers and sellers on how to get the packages through email, about how to disguise the shipments and even advise on techniques to avoid detection. It is natural to come to mind that if these markets which are all considered Dark Web Links market links, should not these markets be closed down by the government agencies or buy the watch dogs. The answer is yes they do get shut down and face the consequences as was the case with Silk Road 1.0, Silk Road 2.0 and a lot of other markets that operated on the Tor .onion url directories.

Products Purchased on the Darknet Marketplace


There are various products that are purchased on the marketplace but in fact everything is available on these establishments. Most of the Darknet marketplaces are stocked with Drugs. According to a study conducted by researchers and Darknet specialist everything around 50% to 60% of the stocks consist of Drugs. Of the Drugs related stuff that are almost available on every Darknet market place be it on individually owned or third party related almost 80% of the drugs are illicit drugs, 15% of them are Drug related chemicals and 5% of them are pharmaceuticals which includes both prescribed and non prescribed drugs. This is not it. Weapons, assassination services and other types of services are also available on these Dark net Sites Link. Almost every such marketplace offers these kinds of horrific services. Slayers Assassination and Life Ruining Services are one of the many such market places that offer these kinds of services. The major categories or domains they operate are assassinating people, life ruining and other as they have their listing in their Deep Web Links and Web Sites. The rate charged by these marketplaces for assassination of people by Guns is $15000, with knife $22,000, with poison $40,000, with painless poison $42,000, with death torture $50,000. That being said the next category is the Life Ruining Services which also enlist acid attacks, facial scars, crippling, blinding and also castration. Please take a note that although we are referring these rates from a particular Dark net Links, but these rates should not be considered as the benchmark rates but they do revolve typically though. What are the Different Types of Darknet Markets? Although there is no such official differentiation but there is a fine line that is based on ownership. All the popular Darknet market or the Crypto market such as the Dream Market, Wall Street were all third party Darknet markets. All these marketplaces operated on a single ownership basis where the products and services were sold by a single individual or a group of individual and other third party vendors. The markets place themselves were simply third parties, who helped interested buyers find right vendors for their products and services. Marketplaces like e-Bay let other third party sellers to use their platform to sell


their products and in return it takes a fee for its services similar to how the other Darknet marketplace operates. So any interested vendor wanting to use this Darknet marketplace as a platform can use to display their products. And interested customers who are on the lookout for such kind of services can go through all the itineraries and order the stuff by following the steps and other verification that needs to be completed before the products can be shipped to the customers address. Although the list of verification may vary from vendor to vendor and there is no hard and fast rule that is maintained on these crypto markets as it is sometimes popularly known. These Darknet market also provide Escrow services that provide a special kind of service which is very similar in open market or the regular market. The function of the Escrow is that it acts as middlemen between the vendor and the buyer of the product. When the buyer orders products from the vendor, the transaction does not occur directly between the buyer and the seller but is routed through middlemen. The middle men is the escrow services which holds the amount till the product is being shipped to the desired location by the seller. Only after the confirmation of the arrival of the product is received from the buyer then the escrow services releases the funds to the sellers bank account. These third-party market participants act a very crucial link and play a vital role in keeping the trade safe and transparent to make sure that no party scam the other during a trade. The other variant of the marketplace is the individually owned Darknet market. These are often standalone web pages hosted and operated by single individual who is the owner of the website or the market place on the Tor .onion urls directories. The marketplace also displays products for sale just in the above case of third party darknet business model. The Tor network also hosts the individually owned marketplace where the owner of the site is also the vendor. These types of marketplaces are not so secure and often do not allow Escrow services to be offered on their website. Some examples of individually owned market place are The French Connection, Charlie UK, Cocaine Market, etc.


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