Silk Road forums
Market => Product requests => Topic started by: uber1337hax on August 16, 2011, 06:55 am
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LSD here is really expensive :(
My old dealer irl would sell me acid $6-$8 a hit
but then he disappeared for some reason and I never talked to him again :(
and all the acid here is like $130 for 10 hits, $80 for 5 hits, $300 for 20 hits >:(
I want some cheaper acid >:(
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I wonder the same thing. But if I had to guess I'd say that like most things it's higher quality + the cost covers shipping and packing and stuff. People always seem to forget that.
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I too, initially thought the same thing in respect to pricing.. But still, some things are way to high, including the shipping and packaging... No, I'm not a cheap ass, some things are over priced =)
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It is generally more potent, it's from EU and generall sold at actual mic levels. North American LSD is generally sold at higher mics levels but actual mics levels are lower than advertised by the dealer...basically North America is filled with greedy pig dealers.
That being said the prices are still highly over priced and the price would come down if all you LSD users would stop buy LSD for a month the prices would drop. :P
Otherwise just consider the higher price to be a convenience charge.
:D
nomad bloodbath
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All the good L vendors are off on festival vacation. Otherwise you would see some wonderful prices listed.
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All the good L vendors are off on festival vacation. Otherwise you would see some wonderful prices listed.
Really? When do you think they'll be back?
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here is why LSD is so expensive....
we're breaking the law in order to smuggle you some illegal drugs. if your dealer has to take extra risks or expose himself a little more to complete the smuggling job than of course he's going to charge you extra for the job.
we're not selling it, retailing, or trading it with customers.
we're all man hired by the underground drug users to risk our own asses in order to get you high one more time
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here is why LSD is so expensive....
we're breaking the law in order to smuggle you some illegal drugs. if your dealer has to take extra risks or expose himself a little more to complete the smuggling job than of course he's going to charge you extra for the job.
we're not selling it, retailing, or trading it with customers.
we're all man hired by the underground drug users to risk our own asses in order to get you high one more time
Yes, but that's true of just about everything on SR. Yet other prices (molly, for instance) aren't unreasonable.
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i want to explain something to the OP, and to anyone who may have this or the same question with regard to a product of their choice.
in this little experiment, along with the words 'Silk Road' are the words 'marketplace.' now let us set aside the ambiguity of the word place in this context and focus on the word market.
a market consists of interactions between sellers and buyers of goods. based on a rough estimation of competing supply, sellers price their goods at prices such that they believe buyers will wish to purchase them. buyers either confirm their estimations or they do not. if as nomad says above, you (and other buyers in aggregate) decide not to purchase products at the offered price, then either the sellers will adjust their prices or find a more favorable market. if there is lots of supply both here and in the wider market, prices get set lower; if supply is low in either case, they go up.
this is the short answer to all questions regarding why things are priced what they are. the illegality stuff is all incidental to the basics of how a market works.
all that said some other variables do enter into the equation, for the advanced level student of 'markets.' you can for instance engage in price discrimination, or rather encourage sellers to do so, by entering into an informal negotiation - commonly known as 'haggling.' another cause of high prices apart from legal risk is of course the currency risk involved in the transactions from BTC to one's home currency - as we all know one can lose money on the exchange. or gain, but unfortunately things seem to have been going in the other direction lately.
um, sorry for the long, stupid exercise in amateur economics. that kush!