Two popular vendors of mephedrone were both taken into custody recently, the article states that the substance found was field tested as methamphetamine. This isn't the case and they will find that after the GC/MS results. (look around in certain places and you can find out which vendors they were) http://www.craigdailypress.com/news/2010/jul/29/acet-arrests-craig-man/ and http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/07/29/603095/warrants-turn-up-more-details.html I'm by no means trying to deface the images of these guys, the chances are their supply will be returned and they'll be released. It's mostly a warning that lately things haven't seemed okay in the RC scene what with impending bans and vendors being closed down. It's time to start being extra careful...
The vendors' online identities were discussed on DSR and both vendors were apparently regulars on LHG. Frankly, anyone vending these products in the USA is just setting themselves up to be the next Federal Analogue Act test case. It's a shame this happened, but not surprising. Only thing surprising here is that it's only two vendors. It could have been dozens! You can be sure all their customer records have been confiscated. Be safe - if you're American don't buy your chemicals domestically!
Mr. Koppe was being supplied through rambo, they flagged rambo's outgoing shipment due to his return address not matching his new address in NC as he was in the process of moving. (Check the new place out on google maps, an upgrade to say the least) I'm assuming they seized all his customer records and only those that were receiving bulk, and i mean BULK, shipments are likely to be targeted. The funny part was zrambo was banned from LHG due to a few outstanding orders and some verbal scuffles with well known vendors and mods. By banning zrambo all that was done was the prices of mephedrone were raised as a new person was now ordering bulk from zrambo and then selling it at a profit. By trying to remove a member of the forum they just made prices higher and likely the police know exactly where to look for their information now. Luckily LHG has gone into a 'lockdown' mode. Now new users cannot register and the section where vendors are advertised has been made invisible to all unregistered users. Dark times...
anyone want to play a game where we detail exactly what it was that got these individuals popped? might be a fun and useful exercise. bonus points to anyone who can present alternatives in their technique that would have allowed them to carry on in relative safety.
I like the pictures of Zrambo on his mypsace counting money in his bathroom and putting it all over his face. http://www.myspace.com/541710749
definitely. can't believe how stupid someone would be to post a pic of them with that much money. after seeing that I kinda imagine he'd be a shitty vendor, but maybe not.
He was a shitty vendor. He got banned from the forum he was vending on because of customer complaints and non-shipment of good.
In all fairness, he offered 30 grams of quality mephedrone for 215usd. with fairly decent shipping times <7 days. That's around 1/5th the price of the rc-walmart. Was he very careless? undoubtedly
damn with prices like that I wouldn't say he was a very shitty vendor - unless he was a selective scammer.
People reported he was a selective-scammer (zrambo), but since shamrock was a re-seller of zrambo's meph there were very few problems on the customer's end. With the middle-man prices were 155usd/10g which is still a good price at 15/g. The shittiness comes from how open and easy to find both of them were.