purplekitty7772008
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My dealer makes his sole income from flipping QPs.
I don't care though, because at least I will always know
where to get a sack when I need one.
I just feel it shouldn't be more than I stated.
Don't YOU think the prices of weed are insane?
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I don't care though, because at least I will always know
where to get a sack when I need one.
I just feel it shouldn't be more than I stated.
CrackerJax
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Weed is hardly working under free market rules. More like Jacked rules. Most businesses work at 10% net profit or less. Big oil is at 8%. No one has a problem saying they are gougers, and yet ......
Isthisnametaken
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I agree with you. I would never pay more than about 300-350 an ounce.
I just don't think anyone has the right to tell you what to charge. I hate that type of thinking.
Isthisnametaken
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Yeah our whole country is operating under some "jacked rules". Still does not mean you shouldn't be able to charge whatever you want for whatever product your selling.
I personally think people selling $500 oz's are on crack. But that's their right.
erkelsgoo420
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Technically but if u just look at it in a basic aspect.. Its a weed we pull these from our yard and trash them everyday.. Why should this one be any different so to speak. Its a wild plant that will grow with or without us helping and if we weren't helping and the government wasn't thought of the forest could have enough magic trees to end wars lol. The shit was free at some point. Why should it have changed. Like I said I accept donations gladly who wouldn't however if my patient is in pain I'm not gonna watch him suffer cause he can't find 10 bucks... Tho my "customers" have huge medical bills and I'm not a dick. Lolthis may not be the case. I think a federal medical program should be intact in his health plan personally. I am not for legalizing believe it or not. But I feel the medical prog. Changes lives and truly helps those WHO need it. I don't like drug seekers or people who fake pain. But if u truly NEED cannabis get a card and find me but I feel half u kids on here who "need" to get ur card cause ur vag hurts are just addicts who want an easy access route. Lol@vagina pain.
But the people qho truly need it should readily have this resource available to them and it fuckin pisses me off that we don't meanwhile fuckin johnny pillheads son thinks daddys cool so he finds his dads bottle one day and od's on a true and harmful substance.. And who's lwft to blame? The fuckin parents cause those chicken shit lobbyist don't have the hair on their balls to stand up and say "shit we fucked up and we were wrong" anywho imma go before I get real fuckin mad and please not this was not personalized or meant to shit talk anyone. Just a touchy subject for me lol. I'm waaaayyyy off topic sorry.lol
poplars
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get this shit, in a true balanced economy, you would be competing with other growers prices.
so, basically, I feel I have the right to say if your bud isn't that much better than mine, and I practically grow mine for free, then you need to start getting your prices down to compete, in theory.
not that it's /actually/ like this.
but when it's legalized, that's exactly how it's going to be, and you're going to have to make your methods as efficient and fine-tuned as possible to keep up with competition and demand.
right now, nobody is competing with ANYONE.
even though there are dispensarys, they're not really competing with one another, they're simply spread out, county to county, unless they're right next to eachother there is no competition.
therefore, all your arguments towards how it should be more, risk and shit, well sure, if you live in a fucked state that's how it is for you.
but pretty soon, maybe in a few years, maybe in a decade, maybe longer, it'll be legal, and you will be at mercy of the TRUE market laws, not the BLACK MARKET bullshit you've been making a hay-day of money on for who knows how long.
disposition84
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When I first started up I had a goal of helping give back to the people who were getting screwed by high prices. I hooked them up with top shelf buds for a stupid price, and instead of holding on to it to not have to get screwed later on what do they all do? They go out and screw the same people that were screwing them at 400/450 oz and sucked me dry of buds instead of making things last.
Since then I've decided it's not worth trying to reverse the process because there's too much greed in people. I don't fuck my friends on prices, I'm very fair and they appreciate it and they're still making a good amount of money for not having to do shit.
I do however have a few people I have met through the grapevine who have various conditions that I give free bud to at harvest time. One of them including my father who had surgery on his knees go bad 7 years ago and still is in chronic pain even after having a morphine pump installed inside his body, and also recently slipped in the shower when his knees gave out and broke both his wrists and a few fingers. This was inspired by stinkbud and he was right, it does make you feel wonderful. They're also very grateful and use it how I intended instead of turning around and selling it.
Since then I've decided it's not worth trying to reverse the process because there's too much greed in people. I don't fuck my friends on prices, I'm very fair and they appreciate it and they're still making a good amount of money for not having to do shit.
I do however have a few people I have met through the grapevine who have various conditions that I give free bud to at harvest time. One of them including my father who had surgery on his knees go bad 7 years ago and still is in chronic pain even after having a morphine pump installed inside his body, and also recently slipped in the shower when his knees gave out and broke both his wrists and a few fingers. This was inspired by stinkbud and he was right, it does make you feel wonderful. They're also very grateful and use it how I intended instead of turning around and selling it.
Anjinsan
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this thread is silly.
Weed is worth whatever someone is willing to pay for it. The end. If you sell me your 1986 Camry for $20,000...that car was worth 20k to me. Because that's what I was willing to pay.
The mentality that everything should be dirt cheap and who cares how it got to be that way is what is ruining this country. IKEA...yeah it's cheap but everything is crap. Furniture used to last 100 years
and be made by well paid and respected American craftsman (who employed a shop full of American craftsmen/apprentices)...now it's made by some 16 year old Korean chick who is working 18 hour shifts while 7 months pregnant.
You think she takes any pride in the craftsmanship of her slave labor? The furniture of course now only lasts for 5-6 years before
it's in the trash pile. Way to go America!
So by all means lower the price of weed until only the poorest of Mexicans will grow it for us. Why have the legalization of weed benefit any American except the American consumer? Don't worry though...the government will still tax it and waste the tax money
on coke n whores.
Weed is worth whatever someone is willing to pay for it. The end. If you sell me your 1986 Camry for $20,000...that car was worth 20k to me. Because that's what I was willing to pay.
The mentality that everything should be dirt cheap and who cares how it got to be that way is what is ruining this country. IKEA...yeah it's cheap but everything is crap. Furniture used to last 100 years
and be made by well paid and respected American craftsman (who employed a shop full of American craftsmen/apprentices)...now it's made by some 16 year old Korean chick who is working 18 hour shifts while 7 months pregnant.
You think she takes any pride in the craftsmanship of her slave labor? The furniture of course now only lasts for 5-6 years before
it's in the trash pile. Way to go America!
So by all means lower the price of weed until only the poorest of Mexicans will grow it for us. Why have the legalization of weed benefit any American except the American consumer? Don't worry though...the government will still tax it and waste the tax money
on coke n whores.
CrackerJax
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So if big oil worked on your premise, they could charge 50 bucks a gallon and you'd be fine with it. No one is forcing you to use gas.
kushking122
Member
down in maryland a half ounce of kb is $65
CrackerJax
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That's what I'm talking about...
Isthisnametaken
Well-Known Member
OK.... that's like exactly my point. Thank you.
For your info I have not nor will I ever sell weed. I grow six plants at a time. Not looking to make money.
Nobody should control prices, let things work themselves out. Like when weed is legalized prices will change. If people want to give away weed at $150 an oz let them. There will be a balance I'm sure, but I highly doubt you will get good homegrown highs for $150 an oz.
There will be commercial grow op's spitting out cheap schwag to mids and the good homegrown highs will be more expensive.
That's what I think anyway.
Isthisnametaken
Well-Known Member
Time to buy a Hybrid. During the last oil crisis people boycotted Exxon/Mobil, if things get out of control again the same thing will happen but more people will be behind it. Things will work themselves out. It's not up to you or anyone to control what people do with their businesses and what they charge.
Same with the war on drugs. Why should anyone have the right to tell you what drugs you can or can't take?
Anjinsan
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Bad analogy for several reasons.
1. Gas is more important than weed by a factor of 20. It runs everything. Transportation, factories, mills, our military...everything. Weed just gets you high and provides some relief to patients.
2. If it gets too expensive Americans consume less gas. This has been proven very clearly just a year ago. The rates that you are talking about would cause a revolution in this country that would kill thousands upon thousands upon thousands of Americans. We would start killing people as we NEED oil.
So the oil companies do not want people consuming less or rioting in the streets. They set the rates for as high as they can w/o seeing drops in consumption.
GrowTech
stays relevant.
Indoor growing IS a necessity when it comes down to the management of the crop, and overall outcome... Outdoor plants are exposed to much more than indoor plants, AND it costs a lot more to grow indoors than outdoors.still, if I can get bud like this for under 200 dollars, with a yield of over 5 pounds, SOMETHING is fucking WRONG here.
indoor growing is not NECESSITY. therefore it shouldn't be used to define the price of bud.
and I'm with fdd2blk on that whole "1500 for a pound of indoor" <- That's a fucking joke!
poplars
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I honestly don't see how. cannabis is an extremely strong plant, people can bred traits that allow the plant to be more weather resistant than it already is.
regardless, I don't see why indoor bud is a necessity, on large scale.
I think indoor bud is a necessity to small scale, though I don't know how this would be classified.
as outdoor bud has high enough quality to serve the needs of the mass majority.
I mean common, tell someone would be pissed off to have the bud in my picture as high quality bud?
regardless, I don't see why indoor bud is a necessity, on large scale.
I think indoor bud is a necessity to small scale, though I don't know how this would be classified.
as outdoor bud has high enough quality to serve the needs of the mass majority.
I mean common, tell someone would be pissed off to have the bud in my picture as high quality bud?
purplekitty7772008
Well-Known Member
Correct me if I'm wrong, but are you saying some of us women get our
cards for menstrual cramps?
Not very nice. Men have no idea how much cramps hurt. (i don't really get cramps often, but still!!!)
and I don't think any woman would go to her doctor asking for cannabis
for cramps. they would tell her ass to go and buy some pamprin and call
it a day.
It seems like thats what would happen if it were legalized. The goverment
would grow the schwag and middies, and we homegrowers would grow
the really good exotic strains. I already discussed this with someone,
but if I was a grower (for profit), and I had a perpetual garden, I would let
oz's go for $200-$225. No more than $250.
And I would put a scrict limit on how many oz a customer could buy
from me within a certain time. (lets say only an oz a week).
Because, like someone else revealed, people are greedy and would keep
coming back for cheap prices, and start selling it at a 200% profit.
And thats not what I would want. Especially after the person who
bought it didn't even grow it and is selling for insane prices.
No one should be able to tell you how much to sell your product for.
I have a veggie garden, and hell, if I wanted to sell my organic
veggies for $1.99 /lb why shouldn't I be able to?
After all, I had to pay the initial set up cost, buy the supplies and seeds
so why can't I charge what I want.
People will pay up the butt for organic veggies if thats what they're into.
I could probably make a killing off of all that zucchini i'm harvesting. lol.
Yeah, now that I have figured out how much it costs for indoor, I would
be damned If I would sell a pound for only $1500.
Thats alot of time and money and months of hard work.
CrackerJax
New Member
Fine, plug in alcohol instead and my analogy is dead on....
Anjinsan
Well-Known Member
There are alcohols that cost hundreds if not thousands of dollars per bottle. People buy them because of the quality/rarity. Nobody asks why isn't Johnny Walker blue $1.50 a bottle now do they? Why would it be different for pot? Everything in alcohol is basically vegetative too you know.
Coors light is cheap...low quality and common.
Same thing would happen to bud. There'd be cheap weed that you could buy at a gas station...higher grade medical weed at dispenseries...and then black market (non-taxed) weed.
The non-taxed non-government weed will have more variety, be more potent, have more flavor and less chemicals used in it's growth. (you know the government would use all-chemical grows)
poplars
Well-Known Member
wow looks like the high-price gang rolled in, 300+ is now equal with 150 . . . . . . .
maybe you guys need to check out how good outdoor bud turns out . . . .
it's really not /that/ bad at all, especially for under 400 dollars for something like 8 pounds.
you don't HAVE to grow indoors you know . . . nobody is FORCING you, you always have the RIGHT to move somewhere where you can grow outside.
anyways, I know somehow you indoor growers will find some way to make it irrelevant to the prices, but I believe because outdoor has high quality and high yields, it could totally change the prices of weed forever.
maybe you guys need to check out how good outdoor bud turns out . . . .
it's really not /that/ bad at all, especially for under 400 dollars for something like 8 pounds.
you don't HAVE to grow indoors you know . . . nobody is FORCING you, you always have the RIGHT to move somewhere where you can grow outside.
anyways, I know somehow you indoor growers will find some way to make it irrelevant to the prices, but I believe because outdoor has high quality and high yields, it could totally change the prices of weed forever.