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No.... You buy from a dealer in a club or somewhere else -- there is no reputation. I feel like you didn't get the whole gist of the article? Would you buy a t
by setheron 9y ago
No....
You buy from a dealer in a club or somewhere else -- there is no reputation.
I feel like you didn't get the whole gist of the article?
Would you buy a toaster oven from someones cargo van on the side of the road in a shady street or prefer to purchase it form Amazon?
- hackermailman 9y agoHigher up the chain reputation is still everything, they don't deal with anybody who has 'paper' floating around showing they colluded with the authorities at some point. It's common for gangs to distribute paperwork on each other that gets leaked from investigations/court proceedings/prisons. There is no escrow in real life either, so reputation is the sole currency to set up exchanges with any criminal above selling baggies at a nightclub.
- TeMPOraL 9y ago> Would you buy a toaster oven from someones cargo van on the side of the road in a shady street or prefer to purchase it form Amazon? Locals who know the owner of that cargo van will quite often prefer that source, as evidenced at least by the very fact that the van is still there selling toaster ovens. That's a form of reputation-based purchase, too.
- nyolfen 9y agoi think the point of specifying that it's being sold from a van is that the merchant is transient and not tied to any local reputation framework
- TeMPOraL 9y agoCould be, but sadly it wasn't explicit. I interpreted it the way I did, because plenty of semi-permanent merchants I've seen do their business from vans, for reasons most likely involving location permits.
- iamthirsty 9y ago> No.... You buy from a dealer in a club or somewhere else Have you ever bought drugs? When you move to things like pills, and don't have the ability to test yourself, the dealers reputation or trust with you is paramount.