canada ยท post 06 of 7 in this channel
Reading WeTheNorth market from outside Canada
Almost nothing in this feed is about geography. This post marks the small part that is.
the three wethenorth market addresses
hn2paw7zfvndw3dovycegeqmvvnf4pl67b3g2p7pohjlzavloosh73id.onionhn2paw7zrgujyhnt6mgxlt2q6uhgbke4itpqitxhyfbumq3wtnckbuyd.onionhn2paw7zadwkcra3qzv5e4q547i7e5lvxm62cfxqftuqdu7moiu2ceyd.onionprinted the way they were handed over. no labels, no numbering, nothing here says which one to try first. this feed never opens them, so it has no status light, no percentage and no date of checking to give you.
what does not change at all
The addresses. Tor Browser. The captcha. The account, the password, the recovery phrase. Deposits, confirmations, escrow, fees. Messages, PGP, disputes, feedback.
That is seven of the eight channels on this feed, and every one of them reads identically wherever you are.
Which is worth stating plainly, because people assume a national market means a national set of instructions, and it does not.
what does change
Shipping. A market built around domestic delivery has listings aimed at that, and the domestic option in a listing is not domestic for you.
International options exist on some listings and they are a different product with a different price and a much longer wait, as covered in domestic shipping.
the listing detail that catches people
Reading a price, assuming the shipping shown applies, and discovering at checkout that it does not. Or worse, not discovering it and waiting for something that was never coming your way.
Read the shipping option on every listing rather than inferring it from the market. That is a five second habit and it removes the whole problem.
the pricing point
Prices are shown in one currency regardless of where you are, so the mental conversion is yours to do on top of the coin conversion the market does.
That is two conversions between a displayed number and what leaves your balance. The post on canadian dollars covers the second one.
what the language situation means
A bilingual interface is a convenience if you read either language and a friction if you read neither. The translation trap in english and french is more relevant to you than to a local reader.
the thing not to conclude
That being outside the country changes the risk picture in your favour or against you. It changes shipping and nothing else on this site.
Distance is not a security property any more than proximity is, and both get treated as one.
People reason about this badly in both directions. Some assume being far away makes them invisible, and some assume being outside the intended audience makes them conspicuous. Neither follows from anything, and both produce decisions made on a feeling.
The parts that genuinely differ are the shipping option on a listing and the wait attached to it. That is a short list and it is the honest one.
Everything else you might do differently because of where you are is worth examining, because the reason for it is probably not a real one.
Read the shipping option, expect a longer wait, and treat the rest of this feed exactly as a local reader would. That is the complete adjustment.
Anyone telling you there is more to it than that is either selling something or has confused a shipping route with a security model.
replies
a reader askedCan I use the market if I am not in Canada?
the answerThe account side works the same everywhere. Shipping is the part that differs, and it differs per listing rather than as a rule.
a reader askedAre international orders more likely to go wrong?
the answerThey involve more handovers and a longer route, which is a real difference in one dimension. Everything else about the transaction is unchanged.
a reader askedShould I read the canada channel if I am elsewhere?
the answerThis post and what it does not mean are the useful two. The rest of the channel is mostly about the local case.
what this post is not Not advice about crossing borders and not a claim about what any postal system does. It is about which parts of this feed depend on where you are.