Are prices going up across the board?

I used to buy all the time. Sometimes small and sometimes LARGE quantities. But I had been out of the "business" for a couple of years. I used to sell cars and real estate so you can imagine I did quite well for myself at the time. I was not smoking at all so I kind of lost touch with the scene. But in the past year, due to the economic down turn in automobiles, high gas prices and all, and the collapse of the real estate market I found my income all but dissapear. Why sugar coated my income turned negative. Well with not much else to do I started smoking again. Mid, dro, purple etc when I could find it. After a little consideration I started to look at prices around my area, and call some old contacts in the west.

My question is this, are prices just going higher across the board. It seems like everything I find locally and out west is SKY high. SO high its almost unbelievable to me. Am I looking in the wrong places? is every greedy now? what is going on?

I know people will say you are out of touch, you dont understand prices etc etc so i will list some examples.

In my local area now a lb of mid (compressed green buds) is 1000-1200 dollars
Kush, Purple, Dro, anything exotic is 500-600 an ounce.

When I check in texas
Mid is still 900-1000 a lb
exotic still 500 for an oz

when I check in AZ
mid fluffy non compressed popcorn type buds $1050 lb
mid compressed from a block 750 - 1000 lb
exotic like GDP, Kush, 500-600 a oz

Now I have talked to lots of people, looking, searching, not just one or two. more than 20.
But something is not adding up. How can the prices be the same from east to west? Its the same in AZ as TX as AL as GA?

I'm not looking for arguments or controversy I am just making an inquiry from a community of people knowledgeable on the subject. If I violated any rules I apologize. If I offend anyone I apologize.

thankyou

 

When you say mid, is it separated buds, fluffy at all, or is it compressed and have to be broken apart with a very mild aroma?

 

I would jump on purp for 350-375 right now. The lowest I can get is buying it all the way from AZ and its STILL 500 a zip. which is only SLIGHLTLY lower than it is here but only by about 10%, its frustrating

 

yes thats exactly what it seems like. Dealers setting prices.

the reason I say that is, I can always find some young know nothing kid with a great connect who has the stuff for half of what regular suppliers are selling for. But I am not young, not bold, or daring anymore. I cant handle the stress or drama. And it seems now adays its always the new kids who have the best prices but they also love the flash, attention, and have the attitude. Personally I could care less about clubs, and women, and all the other BS they want to pursue, I just want to get something at a decent price. And so far anyone reliable, older, or more professional...... prices are sky high.

 

Ahhhh yes, I am right over in alabama now. Its not fluffy, not frosty. and the smell goes away if you open the bag too long. thats whats passing as "mid" here now

here this is a picture of some "mid" I got

 

hell I would, but my situation doesnt lend itself to growing inside hardly at all, and everytime I plant something outside in the secluded woods around my residence...... deer eat it up. There are so many dear that they eat up any plants planted in the yard. Yards around me are flower and plant free except for this one gentleman who has a 6 foot high 3 layer electrified deer wire fence. HA, and I drive by every couple of weeks or so and see him rebuilding it where deer have just run head long into the wires and torn them to pieces..... I feel so sorry for him out there replanting his beautiful plants every month..... seems like he would give it up but persistence... they say is a virtue

 

exactly, it would be more along the lines of just some compressed regular isnt it

 

is that across the board or just in the southeast because I can understand how it could be $1000 a lb in the southeast, but when buying 10+ it still seems high but I dont udnerstand how those 10lb blocks were $6000 in az and now they are $10,000 the jump just seems unbelievable to me.

One of my degrees is in business and I have run businesses for over ten years before this economic crises. SO I view everything in simply black and white. Is it just that all the people I seem to find don't understand business at all? Personally it really seems like it would do the dealer better to sell for a decent price and have steady business and a good trust worthy clientel. But all these dealers I find ALL do the same thing.

They sell for as high a price as possible. Sit on what they have for an absorbent amount of time. It seems to me, I may be wrong, if I am forgive me, but they sell so high and make money. And then dont care about clients or good customers. Once they have some money they get an attitude, show up late if at all, and get on this manliness trip. But then when the money runs out then they call and call and call for someone to come buy again.

I just really cant grasp it.

 

Oh dont worry you can talk bad about it, I talk bad about it. I am talking bad about it right now

yeah I pay whatever to get a look. But that doesn't mean I would come back for seconds. I will tell you right now. Those blocks I can get locally from a young man. 10,500 a block, or 1050 a lb. And it makes no sense because no one wants to buy it. Why set the price so high that no one wants it? Economies of scale seems to fall on deaf ears.

I would buy it all day everyday for 200 a lb, hell I would buy it all day everyday for 500 a lb. But I can only do that from some young "punks", and if you buy it too frequently they raise the price, or if you buy too much they raise the price. Which seems counter productive. Why does the price get higher for a good return customer?

I hate these kids!!! ahhhh