Awazon Market, the questions asked

Three. All three are listed on the mirror page, and all three are the same market with the same account system, wallet, and feedback history behind them. There is no main address and no backup: each entry is a full door into the same service, so switching between them costs nothing and changes nothing about your account.

No. You reach the market by opening one of the three addresses in Tor Browser. This directory only publishes the addresses. The storefront, the login form, the wallet, and the orders are all behind the onion, and nothing here will ever ask for your password.

All of them. The three entries are equal by design, three routes into the same hidden service. Your balance, your escrow, your feedback history, and your saved vendors are attached to your account, not to an address, so any of the three is the real one, and the one that loads fastest is the right one to use today.

Not directly. Regular browsers do not speak the onion protocol, which is why Tor Browser exists. You can reach the market through a clearnet gateway such as the .onion.to or .onion.watch style sites, but the gateway sits between you and the market and sees the whole conversation, password field included. Fine for a look, not for logging in or paying out.

Two normal delays stack up on a fresh connection. First, your Tor circuit is built relay by relay, which alone takes time. Second, the market runs an access queue in front of the storefront, and the queue page says do not refresh. One to five minutes on the first load is the normal range, and the queue page appearing is the sign that you are on the correct address, not that something failed.

Four checks, in order, on the down page: give the first attempt the full five minute wait, then paste the second address from the mirror page, then force a new circuit for the site from the onion icon in the address bar, then test from a second network or a phone. In most cases the market was never down; one entry was congested and the second address fixed it in a minute.

No. The storefront, the listings, the prices, and the vendor feedback are visible without logging in. An account is needed for the cart, the wallet, the payout address, and the order history, so most people register once on the first visit and then log in from any of the three addresses afterwards.

When you check out, the payment does not go to the vendor. It goes to escrow, held by the market, until you confirm the order. The vendor sees a paid order, not your coins, and the market releases the funds when you confirm, when the dispute window closes with no dispute, or to the buyer when a dispute is decided. Escrow is the reason a vendor cannot take the money and leave.

Shipping is registered mail with tracking, in plain packaging. Vendors state two numbers on each listing: the time they take to dispatch, commonly two to seven days, and the delivery window for your country, from about a week for nearby destinations to three to six weeks across the map. The tracking number arrives by email when the item ships and works on the postal service's own site.

A vendor requests a payout from the market wallet with an amount, a destination address, and a coin. The market processes the request in roughly ten to thirty minutes, and the transaction then waits on the chain. There is a one percent payout fee and a minimum of 0.001 BTC or 0.01 LTC, and the destination address should get the same character-by-character check as any deposit address.

Rarely, and never for a whim. A rotation is a deliberate act, announced from inside the market itself, and the old entry is kept alive through the transition so nobody is stranded. When a rotation happens, the old address stops loading one day and the new ones appear here and on the market. Until then, the three addresses on the mirror page are the complete list.

No, for the market. The onion protocol already keeps the clearnet from seeing the destination, and adding a VPN under Tor only hides the fact that you use Tor from your own internet provider, which is a different question with a different answer. A VPN on top of Tor, between Tor and the market, adds a middleman the onion route did not need.

On the market, behind the onion. Open any of the three addresses in Tor Browser, wait through the access queue if it appears, and the account menu in the top corner of the storefront has the log in entry. A page on the open web asking for your market password is not the market, and nothing on this directory asks for it either.