What advantage is there to reusing a market account ?

Given the option and no cost to create and new account and new PGP keyset, why reuse an existing account for another order from same or different vendor.

DrugHub tracks stats for users, which are visible to you (under "Public Stats" in the top right menu), and to any vendors you order from.

It shows how long you've been a user, how many orders you've made in total and how many went to AF (vendors don't like users who always leave it to AF even after they already received it), and a couple of other things.

If you have good stats, there's no harm a vendor seeing that - maybe they'll process your order before a newbie account who might mess them around. Don't know if vendors actually do that, but you never know. I'm sure some of them avoid orders from accounts with bad stats.

I guess it doesn't matter beyond that. Sounds like a pain to keep making new keys and accounts though, so why bother? (Unless you do have bad stats lol)

Some markets give you a private mirror if you have made enough orders on there, making you immune to DDOS attacks -- well, at least more immune - less steps and less chance of DDOS so just overall quicker. And they might trust you more in disputes, as a long time market user. Also, if you build a good relationship with a vendor, maybe they send extras. Maybe you become so familiar with one another that they let you know where to find them if the market crashes -- maybe that would happen anyway if it was a small vendor and they recognized your address, but it's less likely. Just all advantages that flow from proving yourself as a buyer as being beyond a random person on the internet

Thanks /u/washocean and /u/Posca I order so infrequently that my accounts are deleted anyway. Good to know.