What protects you, as a buyer, on these markets
A working summary of the buyer-side protections on Anubis and Nexus. Three layers of defence, one of them invisible to most buyers.
You hand over money. You wait for a package. The interval between those two events is where the risk sits. The buyer-side protections on Anubis and Nexus are the layers that compress that risk. Three of them, in increasing order of what most buyers know about.
Layer one: the listing
The most visible protection. Both platforms expose vendor reputation on the listing page. Feedback count, on-time-shipment ratio, dispute-loss ratio, days-since-last-order. None of this is a guarantee, but a vendor with two thousand orders and a ninety-five percent on-time ratio is a different proposition than a vendor with twenty orders. Most buyer protection lives in this filter step.
Layer two: the dispute panel
The protection most new buyers underuse. Either party can open a dispute from the order page; the platform freezes the escrow; the panel arbitrates. The published SLA on first contact is measured in hours. Most disputes resolve in a working week. The panel is binding because it controls the third multisig key. New buyers who get a non-shipment do not always know they can dispute; they should.
Layer three: the multisig contract
The protection most buyers do not see. The 2-of-3 multisig contract means the platform cannot move escrow funds unilaterally. Even if the platform itself goes hostile, it cannot release funds to the vendor or to itself without one other key. This is the protection that matters most when the platform's health is least visible. It is also the protection that does not depend on your action; you do not have to know about it for it to work.
What you should actually do
Read the vendor profile (layer one). Open a dispute on any non-shipment past the listed delivery window plus a small buffer (layer two). The third layer takes care of itself; you do not need to think about it.