You pay for the quality, know a dude IRL, or grow yourself. Welcome to cannabis. Kidding aside, as stated above they find that at 60 - 70 an 8th they can easily sell out, make large profit margins and not be worried about dealing with people with smaller amounts of money, who are more likely to ask for you to slide a coin or two they're light. Though I would point out there are many vendors who sell at pretty normal prices you just need to pick up an ounce or four. Hedged means the order is using escrow, which doesn't mean allot to the buyer really (or at least it never really mattered to me) but it does mean the vendor gets the amount the coins were worth rather than the exact amount of coins it was for. If BTC drops value they get more coin, if it gains value they get less coin, but still the same value of coin (8 =$50 $50= 10 BTC (@5 BTC) or $50 = 20 BTC (@2.50 BTC) ~Vendor Support