Posting a small update with random thoughts and plans for the future. I'll divide it up into two sections where the first might interesting for everyone who has bought or is planning to buy from us - and a second section which goes a bit deeper which is mostly for my own context and planning for the future.We had a small sample run called "3x1g Standard Plus Sample" which was a sample of one gram each for three different types of hash we had available, namely: Cavalli ( http://silkroadvb5piz3r.onion/silkroad/item/f1b63fef30 ), Apple ( http://silkroadvb5piz3r.onion/silkroad/item/d36f9afa9b ) and Standard Plus NoName ( http://silkroadvb5piz3r.onion/silkroad/item/790b7c701b ). We set the price at almost our bulk price and while it did sell moderately well there was only one customer who actually bought anything else than the sample alone. I have three theories for why this could be the case. The first one is most people in Sweden probably simply do not want to order very large quantities, and would probably be fine with ordering 0.5 to 2 grams every order if they could. The second theory is they were never interested in ordering anything from us to begin with, and only ordered because of the cheap price which did not reflect the normal price if ordering five grams or more normally. This could also mean the people who actually wanted to try the samples never got a chance to do so because it got depleted by people just wanting it cheap. The third theory is the quality, price and possibly reputation doesn't stand up to the other vendors yet regardless the samples - now this is very hard to tell as most people will give a 5/5 on all orders if it's packaged well enough and the product works as intended. How the product itself rates to the competition here in Sweden I still have no idea whatsoever as I've seen no customer compare it yet.I've noticed absolutely no one orders any listing above five grams, which currently includes a 25 gram and 50 gram listing which gets cheaper as the quantity goes up. This is understandable from a customer view but in "the real world" where we operated (and still do) before Silk Road bulk sales of 100 gram hash cakes accounted for 90% of all sales (where the rest was samples). We're evaluating if we should just skip all our major listings and go for five gram listings as max and create new ones with even less per listing as to get more customers overall. Silk Road and it's user base seems to operate almost entirely on the customer level and there's not enough overhead to attract the mid-grade dealers.In about 7-14 days time we will most likely get hold of a fairly low quality cannabis-type which we plan to sell for significantly cheaper than anyone else domestically at the moment, which would end up around 0.36 BTC for 5 grams. As I mentioned it won't stand a chance quality-wise against the competition, but for the price domestically nothing will be able to beat it. We will consider it a trial run which could potentially end in failure as the quality might not stand up to customer demands, but if it does we will have the potential to sell quite large supplies of it. We will also sell some type of edible which will be based on this cannabis-type which we know will work as we've tried it on shorter runs before, if the quality of the cannabis itself isn't good enough for the market we will turn all of into edibles instead as that removes its current drawbacks.----------This is going to be the second section, it's more long term and what current problem exists and how to possibly solve them - most likely not that interesting for most it will kind of be a snapshot where we are now and where we are hoping to be in the future.Ongoing Formulated Projects: Selling Preloaded Silk Road Accounts Allowed? - http://dkn255hz262ypmii.onion/index.php?topic=165366.msg1204389 - Try and get as many new users as possible into Silk Road while simultaneously laundering Bitcoin into cash.Heat Sealing Equipment - http://dkn255hz262ypmii.onion/index.php?topic=160856.0 - Find the best type of Heat Sealing Equipment with the current budget.Planned Major Future Projects:Mail Systems around the World - A thread about rules, prices and delivery times for any domestic post for any country in the world.Best Ways of Cutting Hash - A thread about the best tools and ways to efficiently make smaller bits out of hash without any major crumbling.Small-Time Projects* Find a replacement for Gpg4win where Copy/Paste actually works.* Complete rules for address formatting so it's consistent with every order.* Order the required materials to finalize how the package is assembled so it's consistent every time.* Find a better base for the table which can take handle more abuse and is easier to clean.* Find better ruler(s) to more easily cut up Moisture Barrier Bags.* Research evaporation rates for hash when in different containers as compared to in the open air.* Commission an artist for a Burning Babylon-logo and icons/images for different types of hash.* Commission a programmer to create a custom application for printing addresses quicklier for the labels.* Find an inventory management system/application.* Find a material which works for envelopes for very small quantities of product which has the ability to bend at a slight angle.* Find alternative padding materials to candy for packaging.* Create a full process overview of the whole chain of events.* Complete the Application Collection.* Complete the Password List.