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Re: How much should a pound of shrooms cost? [Re: Asante] 4
#7531213 - 10/18/07 01:12 PM (16 years, 5 months ago) |
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There is no reason whatsoever why shrooms should be higher in price than food mushrooms. "because people really like them" is no reason to make something expensive. Prices should be competitively low and ruled by supply and demand, not greed.
Factor in the legal risk to the seller and potential trouble and fines they could face by bringing such product to market. A large markup doesn't seem so unreasonable.
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Re: How much should a pound of shrooms cost? [Re: WakeboardrB]
#7531227 - 10/18/07 01:19 PM (16 years, 5 months ago) |
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Wiccan_Seeker said:
There is no reason whatsoever why shrooms should be higher in price than food mushrooms. "because people really like them" is no reason to make something expensive. Prices should be competitively low and ruled by supply and demand, not greed.
Factor in the legal risk to the seller and potential trouble and fines they could face by bringing such product to market. A large markup doesn't seem so unreasonable.
You could rent a huge space for growing legal mushrooms, but it would be far too risky to do the same for illegal species.
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Re: How much should a pound of shrooms cost? [Re: Asante]
#7531250 - 10/18/07 01:26 PM (16 years, 5 months ago) |
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My connect sells a pound for $900.
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Re: How much should a pound of shrooms cost? [Re: WakeboardrB] 1
#7531251 - 10/18/07 01:26 PM (16 years, 5 months ago) |
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Factor in the legal risk to the seller and potential trouble and fines they could face by bringing such product to market.
Absolutely. Mine was an ideal world situation where shrooms were legal and uncontroversial. Then you would pay about as much for Cubies as for Button mushrooms and Psilocybin would go at about $15 a gram. And they still would be making the usual profits off that.
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A large markup doesn't seem so unreasonable.
If the markup is by the grower, granted. But resale people making huge markups is outrageous. What you see in many businesses is that the resale people get rich and the actual producers get very little.
Currently in Dutch smartshops you can get up to 35 grams fresh Cubies for 8 euro, or about $11 for a dried 1/8oz. ($1.500/lb) Given the circumstances I think that's a reasonable price. I'd be at peace with a consumer price of $5 for portions of 1/8oz and a wholesale price of $500/lb at most.
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Re: How much should a pound of shrooms cost? [Re: Asante]
#7531269 - 10/18/07 01:33 PM (16 years, 5 months ago) |
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i'm assuming everyone else that checked $500 thinks lb's should be grown as well?
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Re: How much should a pound of shrooms cost? [Re: Asante]
#7531555 - 10/18/07 02:48 PM (16 years, 5 months ago) |
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Wiccan_Seeker said: You can get a dried pound of shrooms for about $1.000 in Holland.
What should they cost?
Based on the price of culinary mushrooms, about $10-$100
Since Cubies (Psilocybe cubensis) are about as easy to grow as Button mushrooms (Agaricus bisporus) and grow on similar substrates, you ought to pay about $1.50 or so for a fresh half-pound. Twenty of those would be needed for a dried pound, so that's $30. The dried mushrooms however are easier to transport, store and distribute so that would bring cost down to about $25 for a pound or $50 for a kilo.
Cubies, $25 per dried pound Psilocybin (organic), $15 per gram 10mg Psilocybin pills, $0.25 apiece
There is no reason whatsoever why shrooms should be higher in price than food mushrooms. "because people really like them" is no reason to make something expensive. Prices should be competitively low and ruled by supply and demand, not greed.
unfortunately things in life are rarely ideal
however, back in reality, people sell them for whatever price they can damnwell get. whatever makes it worth the risk of incarceration.
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Re: How much should a pound of shrooms cost? [Re: moon_glue]
#7531572 - 10/18/07 02:52 PM (16 years, 5 months ago) |
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and resale people are responsible for bringing the drug from the producer from the consumer. out of the three groups, they tend to do the most work, take more risk, talk to more people, smuggle, have people come after them, get robbed, and so on.
i don't complain about drug prices because if the price sucks i don't buy it. People who buy at bad prices are the reason prices are high.
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Re: How much should a pound of shrooms cost? [Re: moon_glue]
#7531582 - 10/18/07 02:54 PM (16 years, 5 months ago) |
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I wouldn't even consider spending that much money on shrooms when you can grow your own for a fraction of the price.
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Re: How much should a pound of shrooms cost? [Re: davetripson] 1
#7531607 - 10/18/07 02:58 PM (16 years, 5 months ago) |
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Goddamit when will you learn that not everyone has the capability to grow their own.
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Re: How much should a pound of shrooms cost? [Re: learningtofly]
#7531736 - 10/18/07 03:27 PM (16 years, 5 months ago) |
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Goddamit when will you learn that not everyone has the capability to grow their own.
Most people could if given the opportunity. If you find a couple of cyans in the forest there are low-tech things you can do to have that forest chuck full of cyans in the years to come. Similar techniques can be used for other indiginous mushrooms. You don't need to have em in your house or on your land.
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Re: How much should a pound of shrooms cost? [Re: learningtofly]
#11197644 - 10/06/09 11:08 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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We all love tripping on shrooms, and even though they are close to our hearts because mycology is a dear hobby, lets be honest.
These are not food. Your crazy if you want to compare them to edibles, because your paying for an experience, not sustenance. This is a narcotic. It's risk alone jacks up the price, and for good reason. I dont know about you guys, but if you asked a dealer who was selling in eighths on the street, hed say hes paying 3200 or so a pound (because hes making a couple grand profit selling them 35-40 bucks an 8th). If you sold it to someone whos using them personally and just wants a stash, id say 1800-2200 is fair game.
now, for the people on here saying 700 dollars and less..
WHAT!? lol
Obviously not many people here have any reason to buy shrooms, and hopefully no one is selling them. Let's not let our abundant stashes cloud our judgement eh?
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Re: How much should a pound of shrooms cost? [Re: Hyper_Panda_GO]
#11197682 - 10/06/09 11:14 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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Hyper_Panda_GO said: I usually buy an eighth for $20
So times that by 8 and it's $160
TImes that by 16 and it's like...
I don't know, I've got no calculator
Damn, people would never sell an eighth here for less than $35.
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Re: How much should a pound of shrooms cost? [Re: Rocker232]
#11197708 - 10/06/09 11:18 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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people will pay whatever the fuck they have to pay, no matter what the substance is. supply n demand
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Re: How much should a pound of shrooms cost? [Re: LayYouIn]
#11197821 - 10/06/09 11:31 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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if i sold em.. which i dont... they;d be for 1200 for one... 5 for 5 .. all day
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Re: How much should a pound of shrooms cost? [Re: Tellmemore]
#11197910 - 10/06/09 11:43 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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cost a g here....
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Re: How much should a pound of shrooms cost? [Re: LayYouIn]
#11198614 - 10/07/09 03:47 AM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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$800 or less in BC. Sometimes closer to $500.
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Re: How much should a pound of shrooms cost? [Re: Asante]
#11198634 - 10/07/09 03:55 AM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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there 2 stacks around here oz 200 1/8ths 35
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Re: How much should a pound of shrooms cost? [Re: Asante] 1
#11198789 - 10/07/09 06:17 AM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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Wiccan_Seeker said: You can get a dried pound of shrooms for about $1.000 in Holland.
What should they cost?
Based on the price of culinary mushrooms, about $10-$100
Since Cubies (Psilocybe cubensis) are about as easy to grow as Button mushrooms (Agaricus bisporus) and grow on similar substrates, you ought to pay about $1.50 or so for a fresh half-pound. Twenty of those would be needed for a dried pound, so that's $30. The dried mushrooms however are easier to transport, store and distribute so that would bring cost down to about $25 for a pound or $50 for a kilo.
Cubies, $25 per dried pound Psilocybin (organic), $15 per gram 10mg Psilocybin pills, $0.25 apiece
There is no reason whatsoever why shrooms should be higher in price than food mushrooms. "because people really like them" is no reason to make something expensive. Prices should be competitively low and ruled by supply and demand, not greed.
well seeing as how it's illegal that's the only reason you need to be charging higher than gourmet mushrooms.
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Re: How much should a pound of shrooms cost? [Re: UnholyChild666]
#11198934 - 10/07/09 07:21 AM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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Dude, it's allmost 350/oz here
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Re: How much should a pound of shrooms cost? [Re: Dionili]
#11198952 - 10/07/09 07:32 AM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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were you from? that's ridiculous.
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