When fantastic plants are being grown from $40 - $60 a pack seeds - examples like 3Thirteen, EsoSeeds, Useful, and Hazeman to name a few - triple digit $$$ seed packs seem like such a waste of $$, but to each their own.
I'm sure there is a slick marketing term for what I believe is the phycological impact that high prices cause to the consumer or as the buyer identifies, "cannasseur-mer".
High prices cause a crisis within the mind of percieved quality, rarity and a chance to fit in to the club.
This causes a panic attack of sorts that leads to impulse buying and an instantaneous endorphine release that soon wears off, which may lead to further buying of even higher priced packs.
I'm not knocking seedbanks or high prices, because we all have to start somewhere,but
I feel that as a grower matures and starts to realize some of the Jedi Mind Tricks being played, then he or she can be liberated by the stranglehold on their pocketbook.
I go through phases were I buy up a bunch of genetics and some have prices that make my heart sink.
I then play around with them by growing, chucking and testing.
Doing my own breeding and also the generosity within the community, has given me access to a wealth of strains and crosses that is priceless.