Buying and selling on AWazon

The market holds the money, the seller ships the goods. That split is the whole system, and it is why a market works at all: neither side has to trust the other, both have to trust the escrow. You pay coins into the order, they sit with the market, the seller ships, you confirm receipt (or the order times out and the coins release on schedule), and the feedback goes up for both sides. Dispute the order before confirming receipt if something is off; after you confirm, the claim is mostly gone and the dispute becomes a conversation.

Three numbers on the seller page tell most of the story: completed orders, feedback percentage, and how long the account has existed. A seller with a year of history and one with two weeks are not the same seller even at the same price, and the price difference is usually the reason. Brand-new accounts with aggressive pricing are where the 'too good' deals live, and where the disputes come from.

Keep the conversation inside the market chat. It is the record a dispute moderator can read. A seller who moves you to a messenger app early in the order is quietly removing the record.

The market charges sellers a fee on each order, and buyers usually meet it inside the price. The rate is shown on the product page, so the number you pay is the number you see. Deposits and withdrawals carry their own fees, written on screen before you confirm; the payments page goes through those, including why the fee you see is the fee that happens and not a surprise later.

Open the dispute from the order as soon as the problem is visible, with the chat as evidence, and say plainly what you need: a replacement, a partial refund, the full amount. Disputes are won early and with paperwork, not late and with volume. If the seller vanishes mid-order, the escrow is on your side of that: the coins were never the seller's, they are the market's until you confirm. That is the part of the system that actually works, even on the bad days.