Basic Details | |
Vendor: | [SamSpade ] |
Market: | [Agora ] |
Product: | [1 oz G13 ] |
Price: | [$190 ] |
Product: | [3g "Time Travel" bubblehash ] |
Price: | [$60 ] |
Shipped from: | [USA ] |
Shipped to: | [USA ] |
Shipping speed: | [6 days from marked shipped to delivered ] |
Required FE: | [NO ] |
Ranking (Choose one per category) | |
Communication: | [8/10 ] I give this guy the benefit of the doubt here. After remembering reading some good reviews of him from the days of Evo and seeing his name pop up on the agora subreddit with a sale for 10% or something off as an opening promotion, I ordered the two items from SamSpade. This also happened to be right around the time when Agora went effectively offline for a long ass time. As a result, the order got marked confirmed the next day, which also coincided with the servers shitting themselves. A few days later I managed to log on and see the vendor replied, saying he lost the shipping info due to agora eating up the sent info and him not getting it down. So I replied when I saw this... which he wasn't able to see and respond to for another few days... and so we go on and on, until the package finally got delivered about 3 weeks after ordered. The funds stayed in escrow this whole time, so I felt relatively safe. |
He seemed very geuinely apologetic throughout the whole process for the delayed shipping (mostly out of both his and my control) and was professional and communicative when the servers returned. I mark some points off here because the initial losing of the shipping info seemed a little bit iffy.
Stealth: |[9/10
] Stealth was adequate and pretty clever, but would have preferred packaging on the bubblehash to be a little more professional, as it came in a nonsealing sandwich baggie
Shipping time: |[5/10
] See above. I understand it may not be the vendor's fault, but still I mark off points for my personal experience. As always, YMMV
Product weight: |[10/10
] Came in 31.7g (3.5g overweight) for G13, on point for the "Time Travel" bubblehash
Product quality: | [9/10
] 1 oz G13: SamSpade's growers produce a pretty good smoke. The trim on the G13 was decent. On first glance the bud was leafy (almost kind of like trim/shake), but upon opening it was clear there were no loose stems or leaves in the weed. The bud was light and fluffy in small to medium sized nugs, sticky and frosty with a nice forest green color and orange hairs.
The aroma and taste of the weed are a quite dank, heavily earthy pine, with an edge of lemon, not unlike pinesol. The flavor was pretty intensely piney, and the smoke was pretty smooth.The pineyness was so distinct, combined with the smoke, that I personally got a menthol like chilling after smoking this weed in a glass bowl. The bud was a little hard at times to get to stay lit, maybe indicating that a little more flushing was needed, but this wasn't a big concern.
As far as potency, the G13, a hybrid strain, seemed to weigh a little lower in level than some of the really potent, fruity indicas I've had before, but had a surprisingly pleasant amount of the creative sativa qualities. I smoked a bowl, watched some squidbillies and had a good time, but I could see this best as a tasty, smooth daytime smoke. This was a steal for ~32g for $190, I could easily see this selling for the listing price of $210. I probably wouldn't pay much more than that though, as I felt this bud compared less favorably in bud density and potency to some of the more expensive $240+ zips I've ordered in the past. The aroma and flavor of SamSpade's G13 were unique and very strong though, making for a really tasty smoke that compares favorably even to more expensive bud.
Pictures with/without flash, in and out of jar.
http://www.anony.ws/image/DUWd
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Product quality: |[8.5/10
]"Time Travel" Bubblehash: I had previously tried out BigFootBud's hash, which I liked a lot and I had some extra coin, so I also decided to give SamSpade's bubblehash for a try. This stuff came kinda... wet? I'm not exactly sure how bubblehash is produced, but if I understand correctly it involves extracting the hash using icewater. Regardless, this stuff was wet and putty-like in consistency making it easier to pinch off and move around than the dry, crumbly hash I was used to.
After pinching off a small piece (~0.05g?), I topped a bowl with it. It didn't smoke well at first because of the moisture content, but after heating up and drying it started to light and smoke pretty well, had a lot of spicy hash flavor, which was really nice with the piney flavor of the G13. My hit of the weed plus hash was also noticeably more potent than the weed alone, which I guess could speak to its potency of this stuff.
The high from both together did seem more psychedelic than some of my previous experiences with weed thanks to the higher ratio of sativa to indica effects, but I wouldn't really go as far as to call it a time travelling experience. I liked it overall, but probably wouldn't order it again even at this sale price point unless it came a little better packaged and better cured (unless it's purposely putty-like for a reason I'm missing, which is also completely possible).
With, without flash on a spoon:
http://www.anony.ws/image/DUWj
http://www.anony.ws/image/DUWF
||OVERALL (subjective): [92/100
]
Overall, despite hiccups in shipping, this was a positive experience. The weed was pretty high quality: a little on the leafy side, but a great smoke and pretty potent; at the sale price for $190 an oz, this was a really great deal. The hash was a nice, tasty addition and worth trying, but I probably wouldn't order that alone again.
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it's obv too leafy and if it wont burn correctly than it is obviously too moist, nothing to do with the flush. Looks decent other than that. And the hash is wet too??? Sounds like he was in too much of a hurry and shipped product that was too fresh