Reply to post: Re: Smell Test

Alphabay shutdown: Bad boys, bad boys, what you gonna do? Not use your Hotmail...

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Re: Smell Test

@Andy Prough - Trades worth up to a Billion were being made on the site, that doesnt mean the site EARNED billions. Ebay doesnt earn 100% of the cash when you sell something on it. There is a listing fee, but I have no idea what that would be on a dark web marketplace.

Think about it a bit though. You're selling illegal shit on the world's biggest flea market. 1% of the gross would net $10m and I'd suggest 5-10% would be a more likely ticket clip - not like you're going to complain to the competition watchdog or the office of fair trading. At that level you're looking at $50-100m income. Before you say "that's way too high" it would mean $25 of drugs would cost $27.50, hardly a deal-breaker.

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