Despite the fact that I give herb away for free (I usually spend less then a lot of people to grow it too), I can understand perfectly well how the price system works, and even AGREE with it in some cases, even if its $300+ dollars.
just for simplicities sake:
Whole setup costs about $2500- lights, ballasts, nutes, water, rent, space, pots, soil/medium, wall lining or paint, table's or res, airstones, CO2 tanks, clones or seeds.... etc etc. then there is the ongoing expenses like more rent electricity water..... and beleive it or not time does COST money. 1 hr a day say in the room with the plants= 30 bucks a day for 90 days= 2700 in ninety days..... and say off this set up you get 3 lb.'s
Well sell the first two for say 3200 (200 a zipper) and you get most of your money back in your pocket... with nothing extra but the other lb. and then you can smoke it, eat it, sell it, give it away.
Let me put it this way. Unless you have grown lb's and lb's and lb's don't even bother trying to price pot, because you simply just don't understand...... and don't forget you have to pay your trimmers (herb or cash, either way it comes strait outa the pocket)..... or spend a huge amount of time doing it yourself (loosing out on other moneymaking opportunities or enjoyable events). Now lets assume your disabled with two kids, a single parent, huh, lets assume you just lost your job you can't get unemployment disability workmens comp or any state aid, and your LUCKY enough to have a harvest coming.
You tell me 400+ an oz for that extra lb. isn't fair for those kids to have clothes, diapers, wipes, food, a room of their own, lights, toothrush toothpaste, maybe some toys, or some gas to get them to the park. Formula is $16 for the small can, baby goes through a can in two or three days.... How about car insurance, car payments to get these kids to the doctor? How about paying for babysitter as you go look for another job even though your disabled, because this harvest is only going to last for this month and you have three months before the next harvest and only 15 days before next months rent/mortgage is due???
And then when you do move out...... remember when you flooded your table and it didn't drain and water spilled all over and you flooded your carpet/garage? Or how about the nice electrical job you had done just to run the op that the owner didn't know about and is charging you $1000 to fix? hardwood floors rotted out? spilled some nutes on accident and that stain doesn't come out??
Again: Unless you have grown lb's and lb's and lb's don't even bother trying to price pot, because you simply just don't understand