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D4NK
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Why priced so high?
#5235003 - 01/28/06 11:39 AM (18 years, 1 month ago) |
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I often wonder why mushrooms are priced so high ($25-$30 an eighth). If you look at the price of LSD, you could normally get 5-6 hits of blotter for this price. Is it because it is harder to grow mushrooms? Harder to transport? Too much demand and not enough supply? In my area, LSD seems to have much more demand than mushrooms, but the prices are much more respectable when it does show up even though the demand is much higher (in my opinion of course ). It never made sense to me. If I were to put a price on mushrooms just by knowing the product itself without looking at the market prices, I would say between $15 and $20 an eighth. Do you think they are overly priced? Sorry if this seems like a ridiculous observation, but it never made sense to me.
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Re: Why priced so high? [Re: D4NK]
#5235022 - 01/28/06 11:44 AM (18 years, 1 month ago) |
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i dont know, hard to say really.
they are free for me
LSD on the other hand.............
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Re: Why priced so high? [Re: D4NK]
#5235028 - 01/28/06 11:47 AM (18 years, 1 month ago) |
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it doesn't make sense to me either, especially if you consider that anyone can grow mushrooms at home if he is willing to invest some money and time... with LSD on the other hand you always depend on a dealer...
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Re: Why priced so high? [Re: D4NK]
#5235097 - 01/28/06 12:12 PM (18 years, 1 month ago) |
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25 bucks for the possiblity of having a life altering, spiritual experience, where you come face to face with "god" and you're complaining about the cost? Come on bud. Seems like your priorities are in need of a little adjustment.
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Re: Why priced so high? [Re: D4NK]
#5235127 - 01/28/06 12:24 PM (18 years, 1 month ago) |
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Yeah, for the amount i trip the price of it really doenst matter.
But it does make you wonder. 10 dollars for 2 whites and thats atleast as strong as and eighth of shrooms which go for 25-30. It probably has somthing to do with how potent lsd is and how far one batch can go and how the dosing mushrooms required eating an eighth of an ounce of material besides a piece of paper .25"x .5".
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Re: Why priced so high? [Re: D4NK]
#5235160 - 01/28/06 12:39 PM (18 years, 1 month ago) |
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I think it is because when someone produces lsd, even though that person is like 1 and 10000000000, they produce alot off it. That makes it worth their time and effort. Shit 1 gram of LSD is ALOT of doses. On the other hand 3 grams of mushrooms is 1 dose.
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Re: Why priced so high? [Re: D4NK]
#5235171 - 01/28/06 12:47 PM (18 years, 1 month ago) |
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i think it's a matter of logistics...to produce a large quantity of lsd you don't need that much space, but to produce an equal amount shroom doses you need a lot more space for production.
Also shipping is an issue..moving alot of shrooms requires alot of space, and they can't really be hidden to well. lsd on the other hand can be hidden very easily and it doesn't take up much space.
Plus it's the black market and it's supply and demand.
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cause mushies taste so damn good!
gourmet baby, gourment.
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ain't seen you in a minute.
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yeah I know, running down here in south florida with no information super highway legal car.
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cuz mushrooms are a fucking bitch to grow. 1-2 months of anticipation, depending if youre making cakes or casings. If its a cake you dont produce much with one needle, and it takes a lot of space, therefore 35 an 1/8. If its a casing you produce a decent amount, and if youre real good you prolly sell them cheap as hell. but if you dont have much space its prolly still gonna be 35 an 1/8 becuase casings get contaminated too easy if you dont invest even more money and time. Im sticking to growing cakes for personal use. Selling should be left up to the kids that pick them on farms/grow outdoors and the old time bulk growing pros. I dont have the resources to produce much more then a helluva lot of headstash
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basically its just too hard to part with mushrooms unless its a good price, especially if you dont grow them faster then you want to eat them.
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Quote:
25 bucks for the possiblity of having a life altering, spiritual experience, where you come face to face with "god" and you're complaining about the cost? Come on bud. Seems like your priorities are in need of a little adjustment.
$25 isn't bad at all if you look at it like that, but considering the price on the market for lsd, it seems a bit steep to me in comparison
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Re: Why priced so high? [Re: Stonerguy]
#5235429 - 01/28/06 02:06 PM (18 years, 1 month ago) |
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Quote:
I think it is because when someone produces lsd, even though that person is like 1 and 10000000000, they produce alot off it. That makes it worth their time and effort. Shit 1 gram of LSD is ALOT of doses. On the other hand 3 grams of mushrooms is 1 dose.
This would be my best guess also.
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Re: Why priced so high? [Re: D4NK]
#5235450 - 01/28/06 02:12 PM (18 years, 1 month ago) |
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supply and demand
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$25 dollars... I'd pay four times that to get a bag of good shrooms.
I my last and only real shroom connection wouldn't sell anything less then a pound, I really didn't like buying that much.
Be lucky you can get it for $25-30, and not have to shell out $4500 for a pound, just to get a ounce, then have to sell the rest to make you money back.
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eric_the_red said: supply and demand
Exactly. Around here there's NO L or Mushies to be found... so those who do know enough to grow their own don't part with them for cheap. I could easily get $50 an 1/8 around here if I was so inclined to sell them, but I'm not. That's only because I'm probably one of the only people for a very long ways around me that had even TRIED mushies. If folks knew there were shrooms here, they'd pony up alot of cash real quick.
.....but I'm no dealer.
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first off , i complain about prices here because they are more than outragous ( 40 for 1/8 ) , and second off i'd pay more than 40 bucks for one hit of acid IF I COULD FIND IT .. for all the ones that have these substances in abundance or near at least be thankful. ah i wish.
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Nice avatar.... love Requiem stuff...
Yea, alot of places in the states are perma-dry, thusly outrageous prices are the norm.
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price never matterd to me back in highschool lsd was what 100$ for 100 hits now I would probly pay 100$ for 10 hits i would say price is reflective more on the econonamy and demand.
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