For me it's a completely different experience. I mostly wholesale in the F2F world, probably started off like a lot of us lifers who manage to stay sharp enough not to get caught and keep building. I'm not talking serious weight personally, but I have about 6-8 sales reps (depends on seasonality) that carry my stuff and then I retail if it's someone vetted out and it looks like it's going to be a "stop by once a week with that ounce" sort of deal.This is my first full-tilt retail experience since my intial 6 months of selling product (before I discovered how much money there was in growing weed. Sadly in my country the penalties for getting caught doing it keep going way up, so the risk/reward just makes it not worthwhile for me). I have to say I love it. I think I'm now one of the oldest weed vendors on here, and while I don't do some of the transaction #'s that many of the weed vendors on here do, I mostly sell 1/2 and whole oz's, which is what I prefer anyway.the Pro's to SR? Well, I get to move my overstocks and I can get cheaper prices on product because I can justify the additional inventory because it's for here. This is singularly the most awesome community on the internet, so diverse and yet we all come together over this cause. Only one or two people in the F2F world who do business with me know my real name (even the guys I've been working with for 10 years don't), and I don't generally exist with a crowd that is involved in drugs in any way. On here, I can offer up opinions and have interesting conversations about drugs, and people sometimes message me and tell me they've seen some of the stuff I have said on the forums and respect what I have to say. It's a great feeling, because it's something I can't have. The net margin on my sales is definitely higher on here, leaving out the crazy time factor to packaging, messaging, shipping, etc., so that's nice. And it's helping me pad my GTFO assets so I will be more prepared when it's time to go 100% expat (sooner than later).The cons. Obviously in a community like this, a venue like this, you are going to have scammers. My policies seem to have deterred many of them (although it's strange how literally every out of escrow package I have ever shipped has arrive and yet sometimes, the odd in-escrow purchase seems to just not show up.....), but they are out there. It's something you have to build into the margins. The other one is the amount of time it takes to move funds around, the general pace of the business. I am 100% confident in my shipping, have been since day 1, but any seller who doesn't admit there is a little twinge of "this had better fucking get there" when you ship is loony. Just the overall time-consumption of maintaining this site occassionally burdens you. But the vast majority of the time I love getting messages from people and chatting back, hearing trip reports on my mushrooms and stuff. It balances the devotion required (kind of like a parent watching their kid be cute as hell?).The experience I've had here has been great. There have been moments (remember Safe_or_Scam?? lol) where you want to bang your head against your computer screen, but overall it's been a great feeling knowing that I'm able to make some money and provide for my family while helping people, all over the world now, obtain things that violent states think they shouldn't have and use. It's been a brilliant run so far (6 months already!), and I'm sticking around unless there is a major shift in the very foundation of how this site runs and what it is.