Try r/afinil on Reddit. I found some vendors on there that worked.
- Shipments are occasionally seized by customs, so don't put all your eggs in one basket. Just a risk that's part of the game. Never happened to me though.
- Credit card theft happens, even with legit vendors... based on what I've read, sometimes (often?) it happens in the maze of overseas banks, credit card processors, etc. So general consensus seems to be that buying with bitcoin is best. While a crooked vendor could rip you off just as easily over bitcoin, anecdotally the success rate seems higher with bitcoin. Often you get a discount as well for using bitcoin!
- Shipments are occasionally seized by customs, so don't put all your eggs in one basket. Just a risk that's part of the game. Never happened to me though.
- Credit card theft happens, even with legit vendors... based on what I've read, sometimes (often?) it happens in the maze of overseas banks, credit card processors, etc. So general consensus seems to be that buying with bitcoin is best. While a crooked vendor could rip you off just as easily over bitcoin, anecdotally the success rate seems higher with bitcoin. Often you get a discount as well for using bitcoin!