The coke price anomaly

Since way back in the day it appears to me that coke is the only popular drug that isn't considerably cheaper one the DNMs than on the streets of the classical target markets. There's other such outliers like mescaline but no really popular ones and those can generally be explained by reasons like low demand/supply, high production cost etc., which obviously don't apply to cocaine.

So why is this? Conspiracy?

I suspect it comes down to a combination of long supply chains with many hot borders to cross, the still present perception of exclusivity, and hence a target group with a relatively high disposable income. This theory may be bollocks though.

What do you think? Anyone with first hand info?


Comments


[9 Points] tsoukaholic:

This is what happens when cartels control a drug, they pick the price


[7 Points] None:

cause white people on computers charge more


[4 Points] None:

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[3 Points] hhayn:

Where I am, locally sourced #4 Heroin... or simply "heroin" as its known around here.. seems to be a good bit cheaper than DNM stuff. It would probably be of equal or better quality 60% to 80% of the time. Additionally, I could cold cop from 6AM thru at least 6PM and have at least 5 different "vendors" with different product to choose from. Add in the shipping time, withdrawals and the complete lack of trust in others that heroin usage fosters... and I just don't seen him why any local users would ever conceivably source DNM product on a regular basis (aside from maybe the few vendors who offer very high quality gear, and even then only a small subset of local users are likely to be able to financially and logistically manage well enough to regularly do so)


[2 Points] Pookikokho:

I always assumed it was because of the risk involved with cocaine (smuggling is a must with coke) and the fact that it can only be grown in certain parts of the world making it rare. I mean anyone can make a chem lab anywhere in the world to produce synthetics, but cocaine has to be processed close to where it was actually farmed and the coca plant only grows on certain latitude range. I'm no expert this is just shit I assumed from reading about it whilst high.


[2 Points] SVDarmstadt98:

Supply and demand my friend. The "real life" demand (I don't know a better English phrase) for coke is so established and steady that cocaine dealers don't need to go to DNMs to sell their product. They already turn it into plastic (or liquid or whatever) and send it over on a cargo ship owned by a friendly company.

The biggest coke dealers have way better methods of getting their product out then USPS, and they don't have any incentive to go online to sell bulk. Acid and MDMA, on the other hand, are less well-established and in-demand drugs, so the DNMs are a natural place you'd go to expand your client base by a fucking huge amount.


[1 Points] None:

Popular coke vendors on the DNM have high volume to depend on, they double their money or slightly better than that.


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[1 Points] SlappySpankBank:

Coke isn't expensive to produce. It's expensive to build submarines and pay people to drive and fly it across the boarder.


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