How Torzon treats sellers: the registration bond, listing format, reviews, and the dispute process. Written for people considering opening a Torzon vendor account.
Torzon vendor accounts open with a bond, currently around two hundred US dollars in Monero equivalent. The bond sits with the market as a deposit against scam behavior, and is forfeited if the vendor account is shown to have run a finalize-early scheme, a no-ship pattern, or any other rug-pull behavior.
The bond is one-time, not recurring. Vendors who complete a clean trade history have the option to lower the upfront barrier for future product lines, though the original bond stays with the market for the life of the account.
Listings on Torzon follow a structured format with mandatory fields for product class, ship-from country, ship-to allowlist, price ladder by quantity, reships policy, and refund policy. Each listing is bound to one product, multi-product bundles use separate listings.
PGP encryption is mandatory for shipping addresses. Buyers paste their address into a PGP-encrypted field, the vendor decrypts on their own machine. Plaintext addresses are blocked at the listing level, which is a Torzon-specific policy.
The review system on Torzon uses a 1-to-5 scale with mandatory text. Reviews are only writable after the escrow window closes, which keeps the early-review manipulation surface small. A vendor profile shows the average rating, the last thirty reviews, and an aggregated count of disputes opened against the account.
Reputation does not transfer between accounts. A vendor who lost an account in another market starts fresh on Torzon, including the bond. There is no reputation-import program.
When a buyer opens a dispute, the vendor has the opportunity to respond with shipping evidence, tracking data where applicable, and any prior communication with the buyer. Torzon support reviews both sides and rules.
Vendors with a clean history get more benefit of the doubt on edge cases. A vendor whose dispute rate climbs above the market average for their category gets flagged for review, and repeat offenders see their bond burned.
Vendor funds accumulate in the account balance until withdrawal. Withdrawal is supported in Monero and Bitcoin, with a small per-transaction market fee that varies by withdrawal volume. There is no minimum hold time after a sale settles, but high-volume accounts may see graduated withdrawal limits during onboarding.
