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Discussion => Off topic => Topic started by: pinkupkake on June 08, 2012, 05:11 am
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I was so excited when I heard and found this . But everything is EXTREMELY overpriced!! Like wtf??? $100 for a dub??? Seriously?? I'm confused. I mean i can understand a little bit maybe $40 for a dub considering the factors involved.
Can someone help me understand why?
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Because people are apparently willing to pay at that price. If they can make a killing by raising the prices, then obviously it's going to happen. Only way to lower prices would be either a boycott (which is unlikely because the majority of customers don't read the forums), or for a seller to lower their prices dramatically with enough stock to keep up with the orders that way the other vendors would have to lower their prices as a result. Until one of these miracles happen, we're stuck with inflation or whatever and life's a bitch. ;D
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Prices are a miracle compared to what I buy on the street, quality is great, the security is fantastic, the amount of labour which goes into the work here should also be considered.
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The stuff I buy mostly Beans (Which are crazy cheap) and Xanax Bars can be bought for $3.50-$5.00 a piece (is average street price) Even If I had to pay extra it's OK. I like the anonymity.
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Supply and demand determine price, just like in any free market. I happen to think my prices are cheap. Some will agree, some will not. I sell a fair amount, and you also have to factor in the possibility of going to prison! How much profit is enough when making a mistake means you could spend 30 years behind bars?
I consider myself something of a master at beating Australian customs with steroids. I have never had liquid seized, nor any other package for that matter. This costs $30 extra if you want me to ship injectable steroids to Australia. Is that insane? Some people will say yes. But for that $30, the customer gets peace of mind. They will not go to jail. They will not have to sweat every single day from when I mail it to when they receive it. Again this is supply and demand. What is your freedom worth? Some people will go to a different dealer and buy a vial of testosterone that is the same price as mine without the surcharge for extra security and stealth packaging. That is how a market works. I deal with people who want the extra tranquility and will pay for it!
What product do you think is most overpriced? How does the quality compare with what you buy irl? Are you sure that you are comparing like qualities? Some people say "that is so expensive!!!" when they see a new Honda Accord, but they drive a 10 year old Chevy Cavalier. Have they really compared them both side to side to see the difference in value? Of course they haven't. But they pretend that the new Japanese car is "overpriced" and you would be foolish to buy one. Maybe you are smoking weak home grown shake that you buy for $200 and ounce, and when you see top smoke for $75 an eighth you scoff. But which is actually giving you more bang for the buck? How much shit are you polluting your lungs with by smoking nasty low grade weed?
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O.o where the fuck are you seeing dubs for more than 30 bucks? Also, the main goal of alot of vendors is to move Weight. So you get slammin deals on bigger purchases, but in doing so, take more risk aswell.
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Price -
> Quality
> Anonymity
> Choice/Selection
> Honest Reviews from others
> Safety
I'm fine paying a premium.
8)
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i dont know bro...i dont see extreme prices i see perfect pricing for us buyers
molly - perfect pricing
weed- perfect
xanax- fine with
mxe- cheap as fuck
ketamine- decent
ghb- my vendor and his quality is fucking remarkable
coke- this one can be debatable..but then again, coke in general round my parts is shit, so fuck it..im cool with it
shrooms- perfect pricing
DMT- same thing
LSD- debatable
opium tea- remarkable pricing
pain killers- a tad bit overpriced actually, i got friends with scripts so yeah, definetly a tad bit
the only one i KNOW is a complete joke is ADDERAL HILARIOUSLY OVER PRICED
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Also forgot to add that prices differ in areas. Availability has a major relation to price and as such, just because the price of an item is high for what is the norm in your area doesn't mean that it is high for someone in another area.
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to be fair its not that bad considering the quality of the stuff you get from here....
From where i live,
1 g Street MDMA = £40, But this shit is only okay, its mostly cut..
I got a gram of MDMA from Ivory for £43 and this stuff blew my fucking head off.. plus i use less and the quality is so much better.
1g of street Methedrone = £25, but this shit is also cut
1g of SR methedrone from Googleeyed (hoping Lim's is gunna cheaper ;) ) = £27... again this works out better because i use less and the quality is so much better.
Weed is a bit more complicated, because lets say i want a small amount.. i pay £10 for a 'ten bag' of high grade, which is usually about 0.7grams.
On SR i can get 1 gram of super high quailty weed/hash for about £11-15. Which i'd much rather do because it lasts a lot longer.
Plus with SR you dont even have to leave your seat and it'll turn up in your mail box.... i mean, come on?! haha. To me the prices are worth it, its good value to me.
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Nothing is better than every drug known to junkie kind, available with just a few keystrokes, and some clicks of the mouse.
( Not to mention, it requires at least a few ample brain cells to even find your way here to the road. )
SR, in my eyes. Is a Drug Community, with class, and charisma. ( and about 2% dipshit scammers who think they're so fuckin slick. )
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Drug prices vary enormously from location to location and circle to circle. If you are going to university in California and part of the drug scene, you are paying peanuts compared to someone who is working as a Historian in Australia and is part of the Australian historians scene.
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It isn't true that everything is overpriced. A lot of things are.. but look at MDMA for example.
You can get a gram of very pure shit for about £25. That's about 40% less than fucking STREET price, yet its incredible quality.
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Theres plenty of vendors alot of us customers could buy from and re-sell for a profit, that is a given.
i've noticed that, at least Mushrooms, Cocaine, And Meth, are Actually cheaper on SR than from any dealer i have ever met. That is for sure.
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the prices for the products I buy are a little expensive, but quality is great, and I don't have to drive to a sketchy town and meet people that will probably rip me off anyway.
I'll pay $30 extra for that.
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If you shop around SR you can find some killer deals. Not to mention most sellers love repeat customers I find i get the best deals from dealing with the same folks.
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the prices for the products I buy are a little expensive, but quality is great, and I don't have to drive to a sketchy town and meet people that will probably rip me off anyway.
I'll pay $30 extra for that.
Haha, yea man. I'd definitely rather pay a little extra for quality product that weighs, and gets me exactly where i wanna be in my state of mind
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If you shop around SR you can find some killer deals. Not to mention most sellers love repeat customers I find i get the best deals from dealing with the same folks.
That's true. Personally after a few buys vendors will probably give you a custom discount if you want a specific order that they don't have listed. Then again some are too busy to entertain things like that and make too much of a killing off their normal listings to care.
Btw Glocks I think you should change your signature to "GAPES NOT RAPES".. It would have more impact ;D
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Weed prices (for dank at least) are much cheaper on SR then where I live, same goes for HIGH quality MDMA, I can get shit thats half as pure for 3x the cost around here. LSD is more expensive but much higher quality.
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Well I've seen mids go for $45 on here. But even out where I leave kine and dro go for around $100 a 7(g) sack. $50 for an eigth 3.5
I think it really just depends on where your from. Can't believe 1(g) of coke is $100 or more on here. That's a fucking joke.
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I just scored an ounce from Pot2Peer that is certainly some of the best weed I've ever smoked... and the Grand Wizard has smoked a whole lot of weed in his day. The price including shipping was $195. I've been able to get 5g bags of Durban Poison, a legendary landrace sativa, for $35 with shipping from RevenantChild. I got a quarter-ounce sack of Titan's Haze from NorCalKing that was absolutely primo smoke for around $40 (he doubled an order). Hell, from where I stand Silk Road is like Stoner's Groupon. There are all kinds of good reefer deals on here if you just keep your eyes peeled. I'm paying half or less what I would buying on the street.
Can't speak for other drugs, but the prices are certainly right for reefer on here.
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XD im pretty sure SR's Strongest commodity to be sold is Cannabis lol. We have obviously way more listing for weed than anything else.
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Wow an oz of Durban poison for $200?!! That is a major deal.
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Can't believe 1(g) of coke is $100 or more on here. That's a fucking joke.
This I agree with. Not sure if it's cause I live so close to the border but I can get an eight ball of some FINE ass coke for $115.
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O.o I paid like 85$ for a gram of coke just last week....
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Well I've seen mids go for $45 on here. But even out where I leave kine and dro go for around $100 a 7(g) sack. $50 for an eigth 3.5
I think it really just depends on where your from. Can't believe 1(g) of coke is $100 or more on here. That's a fucking joke.
From my point of view I must strongly disagree with you. Maybe you live in a good location where you can get good coke for a good price - say southern US... Where I live in the US coke is about $60/80 a gram and its about half of the quality it is on here. I much rather spend even $40 more to get GOOD coke than save $40 to get shitty coke. (don't even get me going about the process i must go through to acquire said coke... it's not pretty) -- afterall this stuff is coming in the mail... theres always a premium on that
I agree, the listing for $175/gram is ridiculous, but I just picked up some coke for $115 a gram and damnnnn its good. I could easily make this into 2 grams by cutting it and sell them for $80 a gram and still have better stuff than my friends. And I would even make some extra $$$$.
The prices are not too high on coke because simple economics keep buyers and consumers in equal balance. Noone is buying the $175 a gram stuff because demand isn't that high, and few people are buying the cheaper $75 a gram shit because it's not as good. I have found that vendors of good blow priced between $90-120 sell out in about 2 or 3 days.
So obviously these items are not overpriced or they wouldn't sell.
Peace!
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Quality>>>>>Quantity
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Right I agree with you but like I also stated. It's all about location, location, location. A quarter pound of mids here could go anywhere from 120-160. But somewhere like in west Virginia it can go for two to three times that if not more. Now here's the thing I have with buying coke off here. One of course would be that you don't know who your exactly dealing with and how said dealer handles their business. Two what the product could be cut with. Allot people really don't know what good coke is and can't distinguish the taste of speed. And three the anonymous part and the wait. If you know someone who can get it why on earth would you decide to buy some online and wait for it to come to your house a week later? Especially if you have it imported to you internationally.
That goes especially for meth and crack too. I can understand if you can't get it or are maybe to import stacks or something. But to buy a tiner for myself online when I can call up a few different people doesn't make sense to me with the risk involved.
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Right I agree with you but like I also stated. It's all about location, location, location. A quarter pound of mids here could go anywhere from 120-160. But somewhere like in west Virginia it can go for two to three times that if not more. Now here's the thing I have with buying coke off here. One of course would be that you don't know who your exactly dealing with and how said dealer handles their business. Two what the product could be cut with. Allot people really don't know what good coke is and can't distinguish the taste of speed. And three the anonymous part and the wait. If you know someone who can get it why on earth would you decide to buy some online and wait for it to come to your house a week later? Especially if you have it imported to you internationally.
That goes especially for meth and crack too. I can understand if you can't get it or are maybe to import stacks or something. But to buy a tiner for myself online when I can call up a few different people doesn't make sense to me with the risk involved.
Your post is interesting and has a lot of valid points. I respectfully disagree with you on the part about the risks involved with ordering hard drugs online. IF you look at it people get pinched by LEO everyday in every city in America buying &Selling small quantities of drugs Maybe there in a bad part of town,or there meeting a snitch who knows or the just look suspicious (LEO loves to use that line), But county jails are filled 24x7 with small time drug offenders, When compared to online anonymous ordering It's usually only the big fish LEO are even concerned with e.g. The woman up north who had 40LBS of weed delivered to her house. For me I have weighed the risks and also the quality it's much better for me to order online. To each his own, Much respect.
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Painkillers, coke and acid are all overpriced but everything else is pretty reasonable in my opinion. Though in the beginning I remember everything was quite a lot cheaper than it is now.
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Right I agree with you but like I also stated. It's all about location, location, location. A quarter pound of mids here could go anywhere from 120-160. But somewhere like in west Virginia it can go for two to three times that if not more. Now here's the thing I have with buying coke off here. One of course would be that you don't know who your exactly dealing with and how said dealer handles their business. Two what the product could be cut with. Allot people really don't know what good coke is and can't distinguish the taste of speed. And three the anonymous part and the wait. If you know someone who can get it why on earth would you decide to buy some online and wait for it to come to your house a week later? Especially if you have it imported to you internationally.
That goes especially for meth and crack too. I can understand if you can't get it or are maybe to import stacks or something. But to buy a tiner for myself online when I can call up a few different people doesn't make sense to me with the risk involved.
yea you're right, but once I find a good vendor i continue to order from him. Also people on here wash the coke, making it much less dangerous and very much more euphoric.... good luck finding washed coke on the street.
And again, because people like myself (who lives in a decently populated area) cannot get good coke, I prefer to order it online from a vendor who always delivers top notch stuff.
And I actually prefer to wait a week (in my case I order it and it actually comes in 3-4 days) and get good coke than trying to find it on the street.
If I had a good connection that wasn't sketchy around here I would certainly pick up from him. But I don't and many people are in the same boat as me, so the price of $100 is worth paying. I also am pretty stingy with my money except when it comes to paying up for good drugs.
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I hear that, I'll pay for quality otherwise you're just wasting your money.
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Well for me Sr i cheap as hell haha the price for one bean on here is the same as i bought bulk in my country, but i have noticed that some meds are a bit expensive