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Discussion => Philosophy, Economics and Justice => Topic started by: WiggleRoom on October 10, 2012, 04:47 pm
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swazi offers grams for 3-8 bucks pending on whether it's high mids or hash. I've heard of pounds being sold very cheap; no such person exists on silk road? Someone who has such connects and is on board with the escrow system?
Lo's, Mid's, High's, Hash;
I am also interested in coke, molly, xanax, vicodin, hulicigens, DMT. & any other party drug beach folk would enjoy.
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"The country, a tiny nation of about 1.4 million people, was reported to have more acreage under marijuana cultivation in 2010 than India, a nation more than 180 times its geographic size."
https://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/15/world/africa/grandmothers-grow-marijuana-in-swaziland-to-support-families.html?_r=0
Bump for Grandma's Love.
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There are two problems, both of which can be circumvented by somebody with imagination and capital.
1. Many developing countries have ready access to product, but they cannot arbitrage this ability so quickly because:
A: Internet access is limited or strictly controlled.
B: The postal system... is pretty corrupt.
2. Later on, once you have lots of product coming through, you got kiboshed by the red flag system at customs. Naturally you're shipping from the cheapest to the most expensive jurisdictions, so any post from an African or South American country is in a tiny pool, making interception very very easy.
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I did say that this could be circumvented by people of imagination and capital. The solution is to create tag teams and transship.
Let's call the tag team, Alice and Bob, for the sake of cryptoanarchic tradition.
If you have a Bob in Swazi, you give him a sat connection. Then Bob has a special staging depot with which he packages product, bought off the happy natives (at a premium to ensure loyalty and any 'heads-ups'). Bob will require serious protection, because Bob will eventually become a well known go-to guy.
Bob uses private courier to send the product to a country which is "neutral". A neutral country is one which where large amounts of trade/post between Bob's country and it exist.
You may have to chain two or three "neturals" to make this swarming technique work (you're aiming for getting into the legit postal system ASAP, because private couriers are expensive). Eventually the product arrives at Alice's country having been transhipped here and there. Alice then retails on SR from here, a western developed domicile, receiving each shipment at separate disposable virtual offices. Then you arbitrage the difference between prices, in many cases this is > 10,000% profit. No matter your P&P, security costs, all that will fade into insignificance after the first couple of shots.
This is an ancient capitalist technique, and it works, but it requires capital/imagination and some risk. Still, you can become rich fast this way. I'd do it right now, but I don't have the right partner.
The Silk Road. Putting the Transnational in TCO! :)
Note: This technique works best of all with diaspora esp. from a security point of view.
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I stopped amidst reading your wonderful reply to tell you how much I like you. [----].. a lot. (great writer, clean thinker)
Edit* This post asks for sender's in south Africa and receiving in south Africa. I admire Pine's mind, & share her ambition.
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I stopped amidst reading your wonderful reply to tell you how much I like you. [----].. a lot. (great writer, clean thinker)
Edit* This post asks for sender's in south Africa and receiving in south Africa. I admire Pine's mind, & share her ambition.
Agreed. Pine's smarts are very sexy and make me smile. ;D