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 › Procedures

Procedures

Ten steps in the order most people meet them. Each page answers what the step is, how to prepare, what you will see, how it works, how long it takes, what you will experience, what can go wrong, and what it does not protect you from.

Reading these

The order below is the order things happen, so reading straight through is a reasonable way to know what the whole thing involves before starting any of it. Each page also stands alone if you have arrived because you are about to do that one step.

Two pages carry more weight than the rest. Verification, because everything else assumes it, and funding, because it is where the largest avoidable losses happen and where the mistakes are permanent.

First accessGetting to a login screen for the first time, and what that screen is doing.Verifying a linkUnder a minute, and the only step that settles whether you are in the right place.Creating an accountFive minutes, and one of those minutes decides whether you can recover it later.Funding an accountTwelve minutes of waiting, and the two mistakes here are permanent.Placing an orderThe moment funds move into escrow, and what escrow does and does not cover.Tracking an orderMostly waiting. What the states mean and when silence is normal.Opening a disputeDecided on the record, not on the argument. What to attach and what loses.Leaving feedbackWhat feedback actually measures, and why the whole system leans optimistic.Withdrawing fundsGetting a balance off the platform, and why doing it promptly matters.Closing an accountStopping properly, which almost nobody does, and what remains afterwards.
About the timingsThe timings given are realistic rather than optimistic, including the parts people find slow. A step that is described as taking ten minutes and takes twenty is not going wrong.