The questions, answered straight

Yes. It is an active marketplace in the Tor network, launched in 2025, with an Amazon-style storefront, vendor ratings, and orders held in escrow until you confirm them. It has no clearnet version: the .onion mirrors are the market.

Any of them. The three addresses are three doors into the same market, the same listings, the same account. If one is slow or stuck in the queue, open one of the others. Nothing is lost by switching.

The queue is the normal entrance. After Tor loads the page, the mirror shows a spinner with “Do not refresh the page” before it forwards you in. It holds from a few seconds to a few minutes depending on how busy the market is at that hour. Refreshing starts your place over, so leave the tab alone.

Mostly seconds, sometimes a few minutes. If it holds past 15 minutes, close the tab and open a different one of the three addresses. If a circuit will not build at all after about three minutes, ask Tor for a new circuit and reload.

Usually no. Tor already hides your destination from your network. Add a VPN in front of Tor only when your own network blocks or throttles Tor, like an office or campus Wi-Fi. Never put the VPN after Tor; it just slows the mirrors down.

Yes, in the Tor Browser app. Android gets it from the Play Store; iOS from the App Store. The flow is the same: paste the address, build the circuit, wait out the queue. Keep the screen on while the queue runs, since a backgrounded app can pause.

Only on a page whose address ends in .onion. If a .com, .org, or any other page asks for your Awazon password, it is not the market, whatever it looks like. That is the single most useful check on this whole page.

Stop and look at the address bar. If the last six characters of the address do not match the verified list, you have a typo or a lookalike, and the page is not the market. Close it without typing anything. Re-copy the address, open again, and this time the tail should match before you enter anything.

Occasionally. A mirror rotates, the old string stops resolving, and new ones take its place. When that happens, the fix is to check back for the current addresses and re-copy. Until a rotation, the string is the same for everyone, everywhere.

When you order, your payment is held by the market, not handed to the vendor. You release it when you confirm the order is as described. If it is not, the escrow process is where you go before the money moves. It is the main reason buyers on the market do not lose everything when a vendor disappoints.