Mars Market Reference Plain descriptions of what each step involves, what you will experience, and where it can go wrong

Mars Market addresses

Three published addresses for the same market. Copy rather than retype, and check the signature once you are through.

Address 1 marsautkudspgk6j23cxdtrk36ae4fpis2eoe7izu5y2rsksvmfji2ad.onion
Address 2 marshjhtog245vzjzcicnmv2ci6yljibvdm4pngq5kmkfvcutppboxad.onion
Address 3 marsiujka6lrsaqpnxiwvknthhzsrlmq77mnl2fi62guc4lwxif65syd.onion

This list is published, not monitored. An address that opens is not an address that is genuine, and the check that settles it takes under a minute.

Reference › When something is wrong

Vendor has gone quiet

Usually nothing. There is one version of it that is worth noticing, and it is about change rather than about silence.

Why silence is normal

A vendor answering every message individually would spend the entire day on correspondence. Most operate on a rhythm, answering in batches, and a vendor who acknowledged an order and then went quiet is behaving ordinarily rather than badly.

It also feels much worse than it is, because a delivery window with no information invites you to invent explanations, and every explanation you invent is worse than the truth.

The version worth noticing

Change, not absenceA vendor who was responsive and then stopped mid conversation, particularly around a problem or a question about an order. That is a change in pattern rather than silence, and change is the signal.
What you seeWhat it usually is
No reply from the startA vendor who batches correspondence. Normal.
Replies, then nothing, window still openStill probably normal. Wait.
Replies, then nothing after a problem was raisedWorth noting the date. It becomes evidence if this reaches a dispute.
Silence across the whole platform for that vendorVisible on the profile as a gap in recent activity, and more informative than your own thread.
Sudden reply asking to settle privatelyThe one response that should stop you. There is no recovery outside escrow.

What to do while the window is open

  • Message once, clearly, and stop. Repeated messages do not accelerate anything and they fill a record a panel would later read.
  • Note the dates. When you asked and whether anything came back. That is the part that matters later.
  • Check the profile rather than the thread. Recent activity across the platform tells you more than your own conversation does.
  • Do not escalate publicly. It commits you to a version of events and invites messages from strangers.

When silence becomes actionable

When the delivery window closes, and not before. At that point silence is evidence rather than an absence of it, and it is weighed against whoever went quiet. Everything before that is waiting, which is uncomfortable and correct. The procedure is on opening a dispute.