Sometimes people really amaze me. They so very often times purchase by price, meaning inexpensive, and then expect high quality.
It even happens with famous highly rated strain names. They pick some top rated named strain and then look for the least expensive beans that carry that name and buy them and they think they bought the real deal, the Real McCoy genetics when what they did was purchase a low grade inexpensive knockoff. Still they say I just ordered some White Widow or whatever and it only cost me $35.00!!! WHEW BOY, DID I GET A HELL OF A DEAL OR WHAT?!?!?!?
The answer is no, they did not get a hell of a deal.
When you compare strains and prices and you find some strain or strains or even a full line of beans and the price is roughly half that of other beans or maybe only a third of other beans or even less than a third of other beans do you ever stop to ask yourself why that might be or do you just say to yourself, oh gee, I found a great deal?
If you purchase at KIA prices you cannot expect to end up with Mercedes Benz quality.
Still people snap up those inexpensive beans and then talk/write like they just found a Rembrandt or a Van Gogh for $2.00 at some garage sale and made out like a bandit.
You get what you pay for and nothing more
If they are freebies, well then don’t complain because if you get anything that is even half-decent from them it is at least something.
But then if it is only half-decent at best, in quality, yield or both, is it really something to be happy about considering that in the same amount of time you could have grown something of much higher quality and with a better yield for the same operating costs, meaning lighting and nutes etc. costs?
Might you not then have been better off having purchased some quality genetics and growing them instead? Sure you would have paid for the beans but they would not have cost you any more to grow them than the low quality free beans so in the end which is a better value to you if you then have to wait months to finish another grow that will be better quality?
I guess in a way it all depends on how you look at things and what you are satisfied with.