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Discussion => Shipping => Topic started by: Greynick on October 14, 2011, 05:38 pm

Title: Vendors - how to you weigh your product?
Post by: Greynick on October 14, 2011, 05:38 pm
If a vendor sends me an 8 ball of something, (total weight = 3.5g including bag) - is this considered normal in the US?

IE the actual bag may weigh in at .3g - .5g so the actual product weighs 3.2g to 3g ...

I've noticed that some vendors send over weight to include the bag's weight whilst some take into account the bag's physical weight too.

What is acceptable for SR? Is actual bag weight offsetting normal practice?

How do vendors calibrate their scales? Do they reset the scale with the bag weight on? Do they recalibrate their scales often? Do they use two scales?

Grey
Title: Re: Vendors - how to you weigh your product?
Post by: vanilla on October 14, 2011, 05:45 pm
I have 2 scales. 1 large postal scale for when I buy bulk and 1 smaller milligram scale for when I dole out smaller amounts for sale. I calibrate either one before I use it. Also, I zero it out and NEVER include the bag in the weight. You are paying for the product, not the baggie it comes in. If you are paying for the weight of the bag you might want to talk to your vendor about that. I also try to give a bit extra in each order in case my scale is a bit off. Having repeat business is way more important to me than .1g of some substance.
Title: Re: Vendors - how to you weigh your product?
Post by: reich on October 19, 2011, 02:44 pm
Weighing with packaging is just a cheap way of making what you have go further, it's bad practice to me.
Title: Re: Vendors - how to you weigh your product?
Post by: GaltRR on October 19, 2011, 10:44 pm
Ya never include the weight of the bag as your paying for product. But i like to have about 10%-15% over weight on my packages. Just weighed out a package right now. Its suppose to be 7g weed and 14g shrooms but its more like 8g and 16.5g.
Title: Re: Vendors - how to you weigh your product?
Post by: jackstraw on October 19, 2011, 11:37 pm
Who the fuck would include the weight of the packaging as part of what you are actually buying the weight of the PRODUCT itself. 
L A M E
Title: Re: Vendors - how to you weigh your product?
Post by: georgejung on October 20, 2011, 04:41 am
pussy bitch niggers  emphasis on NIGGER(no offensive to any africans reading this the term can be applied to any jewishesque people out there) weigh with the bag.  if you cant snort or resell the bag why should you pay for it?

Sincerely
GJ
Title: Re: Vendors - how to you weigh your product?
Post by: chronicpain on October 21, 2011, 04:24 pm
Those that have a decent milligram scale you can push a button called TARE. You can put whatever you want on the scale and when you push it, it zeros it out, so when you put the product on, you are getting just the weight of whatever the product is.

It isn't rocket science. I use it all the time. So, all you would have to do is but the bag on the scale, push TARE then fill up the baggie and then you have the correct weight of the product.. Its a great feature. even the cheap ones should have this feature...
Title: Re: Vendors - how to you weigh your product?
Post by: georgejung on October 25, 2011, 05:28 pm
Those that have a decent milligram scale you can push a button called TARE. You can put whatever you want on the scale and when you push it, it zeros it out, so when you put the product on, you are getting just the weight of whatever the product is.

It isn't rocket science. I use it all the time. So, all you would have to do is but the bag on the scale, push TARE then fill up the baggie and then you have the correct weight of the product.. Its a great feature. even the cheap ones should have this feature...

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Title: Re: Vendors - how to you weigh your product?
Post by: freedome on October 25, 2011, 08:45 pm
It goes with out saying, you get the weight of product that is specified plus the packaging.

Regards.
Title: Re: Vendors - how to you weigh your product?
Post by: novocaine on October 26, 2011, 09:23 am
Even my local butcher calibrates his scales to take off the bag weight ffs and Im buying kgs
Title: Re: Vendors - how to you weigh your product?
Post by: pulpfictionbro on October 27, 2011, 12:16 am
I suggest going with American weights, i bought a small weighing scale of Amazon for like $10 and it works great! They seem to deal mostly in weighing scales and accessories so looked like a good option to me.

It also has the TARE function, pretty simple to use.