XmrBazaar (beta)

It's sad to see, but you can tell when people try to inflate their profile stats by creating one-time accounts to "buy" their listings and leave positive 5 star reviews. It's even worse when they decide to try and do multiple reviews/comments on the same day. Makes it way too obvious that they are simply boosting their main account.

Example 1:

This user https://xmrbazaar.com/user/tiptony

Many listings have many reviews made on the same day. Kinda fishy.

Example 2:

https://xmrbazaar.com/listing/E2EW/

This listing has 12 upvotes, with very little description. All of their other listings have 0 upvotes.


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Am I being to skeptical? Have you noticed this yourself? I'd prefer true, organic growth for profile reputation and not fabricated numbers. What do you guys think?

Yep, noticed when it started but what can you do? There are several accounts employing the same upvote & self trade tactics which I bet are probably from the same person (one bad apple).

Some people do legitimately create single use accounts to buy stuff though. That's good opsec on their behalf.

My rule of thumb is don't trust anyone who does not at least enable the escrow option on their listings.

Sad thing is, naive users are being scammed. The site is enabling that unfortunately.

I've seen this as well. seems like their are a lot of scammers doing this

While I do not enable escrow on all of my listings, I do enable it on high-value listings (0.1XMR+)

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