Questions, answered
The questions buyers and sellers keep asking, answered straight. If yours is not here, the contact page takes an encrypted message and a signed reply.
Compare the address to the three on the mirrors page letter by letter and confirm it is 56 characters long and ends in .onion. Do not type it from memory and do not trust one that arrives by private message. The comparison, not the appearance, is what rules out a clone.
It is the short wait shown while your client finishes connecting over Tor. It usually clears in seconds to a couple of minutes and then forwards you in automatically. Do not refresh during that step, because a refresh restarts the circuit build.
Yes. Inventory, wallet balances and order history are shared across the three, so buying through one works exactly like the others. They exist for redundancy, and switching between them takes no extra steps.
The market takes a small fixed percentage from each completed transaction, deducted after both sides confirm receipt rather than when you list an item. The rate is the same whatever the item is worth, so you can plan around it.
You open a case, the admins review it, and if they rule in your favour the coins return to the exact address you paid from, in the same coin. Most resolutions take a few days, and keeping your transaction hash with the order number speeds it up.
The market rotated a key, so the old address stops resolving while your account and funds stay put. This page is updated with the new string and the old one is dropped. A changed address is normal and not a shutdown.
It is a start but not a wall. Pair it with two-factor verification and a personal PGP key so that a stolen password cannot be used to sign instructions on your behalf. The key is what proves a message really came from you.
Each address is opened by hand over Tor and compared to the live string before it is printed here, and the last check is dated on the page. When a mirror goes quiet the list is updated, so the date is the number to watch.