Glossary
Glossary of terms
- Deal count
- The number of orders a vendor has completed, shown on the vendor page. A high count over time is a vendor the market has watched work.
- Dispute
- A formal disagreement over an order. A moderator reads evidence from both sides and decides where the escrow goes.
- Dispute ratio
- The share of a vendor's orders that ended in a dispute, shown on the vendor page. Low is good. Weight the recent trend.
- Escrow
- The holding of your payment until you confirm receipt, so a vendor cannot take the money and fail to deliver.
- Finalise-early (FE)
- Confirming receipt before a package arrives. It releases escrow to the vendor and removes the dispute path. Avoid it on an unproven vendor.
- Hidden service
- A server reachable only through Tor at a .onion address. Awazon is one. A normal browser cannot open it.
- Honeypot field
- A decoy login input with a rotating name that traps automated fillers. Type into the visible real field only.
- Mirror
- A distinct onion address resolving to the same market. Awazon runs several for redundancy.
- Monero (XMR)
- A privacy coin that hides sender, receiver and amount. The default choice on Awazon when privacy matters.
- Onion address
- A fifty-six character v3 Tor address ending in .onion. Copy it, never type it, and verify it against the login captcha.
- PGP signature
- A cryptographic signature proving who published a message and that it is unchanged. Awazon signs its mirror list.
- Recovery phrase
- The words that restore an account if the password is lost. Store it on paper. No login ever asks for it.
- Safest
- The top Tor Browser security level, scripting off everywhere. The correct setting for Awazon.
- Tor Browser
- The browser that opens onion addresses. The only way to reach Awazon. Download it from the official Tor Project only.