What to write
What to write, and how to write it so it works
Most of what goes wrong on a market is a wording problem before it is anything else. A first message that nobody can answer. A complaint that is unarguable. A dispute statement that buries the claim under the story. This site takes the messages a buyer actually has to compose and shows each one written badly and then written well.
The three Nexus market mirrors
Published in the order they were supplied, with no labels and no numbering. Copy rather than retype. A nexus onion link is 56 characters and a single wrong one lands you somewhere else entirely.
nexusb2l7fmqnefwphyy7m5zjhlkytlbo7qbb5lu5dlczr3azgii2gyd.onionnexusma2iegzo7atzwbrwxhcdopyri3vare2twibldnlc3txqjdeb5yd.onionnexusabcdpvtnivv6owtqjkvd22k5x3hlpofkgjqjmgzltlde6mwe2qd.onionThis is a list of addresses in circulation. It is not a statement that any of them opens right now. Nothing on this site is monitored and there is no last checked date anywhere on it. See the addresses page.
The one thing this site does
There is plenty written about which button to press. There is almost nothing written about what to type into the box next to it. That gap is where people lose money, because a message is the only tool a buyer has once an order exists. You cannot inspect anything. You cannot ring anybody. You have a text field and whatever you decide to put in it.
So every page here takes one message and does five things with it. What you are actually trying to achieve. What the person on the other end sees when it lands. A weak version beside a strong version. What to leave out. What happens next.
The weak version is the part most guides skip, and it is the useful half. Nobody needs to be told that a good message is clear and short. People need to see the bad one written down, recognise it, and understand what it costs.
The skeleton on every page
- What you are trying to achieveUsually narrower than it feels. A reply, a date, a number, or a record that exists afterwards.
- What lands on the other endThe same words read by somebody with a queue, a timer and no memory of you.
- Weak and strong, side by sideTwo versions of the same message in quoted blocks. Both written for this site, neither taken from any person.
- What to leave outThe detail that felt important while you were typing and works against you once it is sent.
- What happens nextWhat the message sets in motion, including the times when the answer is nothing.
That structure is set out in full on the skeleton, which is worth ten minutes before the rest of the site.
Before you order
Nothing is at stake yet except whether you are worth replying to. Messages at this stage are read in about four seconds by somebody working through a list.
- The first message to a vendor
- Asking about shipping
- Sending the details an order needs
- Asking a vendor to sign something
- All seven
While you wait
The stage where the main skill is not writing. Credibility spent here is credibility you do not have in a fortnight, and almost every message written on day one gets written again on day three.
- Asking whether it has gone out
- Chasing an order that has not arrived
- Asking for more time on the clock
- Writing to yourself
- All six
When it goes wrong
Something has broken and the reader is angry or frightened. Nearly every message that costs somebody money in this subject was written in the first ten minutes after a shock.
- Reporting an order that is short
- Asking for a partial refund
- Refusing to pay outside escrow
- Answering a message that claims to be support
- All eight
In a dispute
Everything you write is now a record read by a third party who does not know either of you. Volume reads as weakness. Ordering reads as truth, which is worth knowing in both directions.
Afterwards
Nothing is at stake any more, which is exactly when people write the message that costs them something. Feedback, public questions, and the notes that outlive their usefulness.
What this site will not do
| Question | Why it is not answered here |
|---|---|
| Whether a nexus market mirror is working | Nothing here is checked. A status light nobody maintains is worse than none, so there is not one |
| Which nexus market address is the right one | They are published as one set. Ranking them would imply a judgement no outsider can make |
| Whether a vendor is honest | There is no data behind that and no customers here to ask |
| Anything about products | A line this site keeps on purpose. Every example stays on messages, timers and money |
| Whether any of this is a good idea | Not the subject. The site is about wording, and wording only |
About the examples
Every example message on this site was written for this site. None of them is quoted from a real person, a real order or a real vendor, and no name, handle or figure anywhere on the site belongs to anybody.
Questions people ask about this
Which of the three Nexus addresses should I use?
Any of them. They are published as one set and this site has no basis for putting one above another. Whether a nexus onion link you found elsewhere is genuine is a different question, and the addresses page covers what a list like this can and cannot tell you.
Is Nexus market up right now?
This site does not know and will not guess. Nothing here is monitored, nothing is probed, and there is no status figure anywhere on the site.
Is this the market?
No. It is a reference site about wording. It cannot reach an account, release an order, open a dispute or pass a message to anybody.
Do I have to read it in order?
No. Each page stands on its own. The index lists every message on one page if you already know which one you need.