Rare dankness/rd genetics

Mrs. Rare Dankness said:

smfh..... I will actually think about this.... OK.. OPINIONS PLEASE.... Respectful opinions on seed count.

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12 seems fair to me, that would set Rd away from the 100$ 10seed vendors outthere

Charge what you want. You will still sell seeds. But, It could dramatically reduce the amount sold even so much to where it was bringing in more revenue before the price increase. Or I could be wrong.

One thing is for sure, it has to be profitable.

I personally buy what i want regardless of price (within reason) but I could see many concerned more about the price tag than wether you get 10 or 11 seeds.

just my own opinions here...

I wonder what people on RIU would have said in 2000 when it was normal for proven seeds to be $200+ for a 10 pack?? How many people here didnt think twice buying sensi NL#5 x Haze seeds for $250 a pack 12 years ago? Or how about $500 a pack when blowfish seeds dropped from Dutch flowers?

Each seed in every pack you buy has the potential to be worth tens of thousand times the amount you paid for the entire pack. You are paying for genetics. You are paying for a livelihood, or medicine, or trade bait, or whatever the plants will be to you. People are lucky to have such easy access to seeds now that I think they take for granted how difficult and expensive it used to be for growers 15 years ago to get ANYTHING at all to grow other than bagseed.

this was my last grab.all good except the rug burn (hard to tell on pic) looks like maybe 4 or 5 inmature beans.hopefully i'll get at least one keeper out of the ones that do make it.QC was needed imho.
Mrs.RD 12 beans sounds like a deal maker...but 11 is middle gound.

Rare D MI said:

I wonder what people on RIU would have said in 2000 when it was normal for proven seeds to be $200+ for a 10 pack?? How many people here didnt think twice buying sensi NL#5 x Haze seeds for $250 a pack 12 years ago? Or how about $500 a pack when blowfish seeds dropped from Dutch flowers?

Each seed in every pack you buy has the potential to be worth tens of thousand times the amount you paid for the entire pack. You are paying for genetics. You are paying for a livelihood, or medicine, or trade bait, or whatever the plants will be to you. People are lucky to have such easy access to seeds now that I think they take for granted how difficult and expensive it used to be for growers 15 years ago to get ANYTHING at all to grow other than bagseed.

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Yes, but today isnt 12 years ago.. there wasnt hundreds of breeders competing. There wasnt attitude seed banks and many other seedbanks competing by selling for the hundreds of breeders. Its about supply and demand.

Good genetics are spreading like wild fire. Stay with the times or get left in the past. DO you whatever your company sees fit, after all, if someone doesn't like the price... Dont buy them, simple as that. All im saying is that there are breeders out there that have great genetics that are selling for much less. The intentions of increasing prices to to maintain profits because of added costs has potential to decrease revenue in general.

But, only time can tell that.

Oh and no need to categorize RIU members like inferior whiney bitches. About how bad we all complain. There are many here without a brain. But there are some here who have been around, and know a little bit about our reasons we come here.

Its human nature for people to bitch about price increases. That goes for a lot more than buying seeds.

Im not trying to argue, just felt like expressing some thoughts.

The first seeds I grew out were from the seed bank catalog in the late 80's, Northern Lights and Early Pearl, did some kickass outside grows back then.

Nowadays if I want the genetics I buy it, price doesn't really matter as long as the product im getting is the real deal.

Beans are cheap, a couple plants can pay for many many packs, right now I have more packs of seed than I could grow in 20 years.

with legalization comin, get your 100 a pack while you can! lol by the way, i bought 2 packs of rd before the price reduction. happy customer here, wish i got to enjoy the 80 dollar packs...sigh! i shoulda score 5 rd instead of 4 ggg...nahhhh lol but for real...my next order just went from 4 packs to 3 for same price. cmonnn mannnnnnnn

fyi....im far from a fucking whiny bitch...

RIU is the only forum where people are complaining right now. I never called anyone any names. I just asked what the members here would do if those were the prices, and put the situation into perspective for some younger or amateur growers.

What I would like to see is Rare Dankness available in the Clubs here in CA. A few of the better Medical clubs have display cases with TGA and Cali Connection seeds available. I would love to be able to pick up Rare Dankness seeds at my local medical club. I'm stoked that I got my Docs OG and Ghost train Haze before the increase.

theres still breeders selling packs for 250. i think doggies nutts might be one. somas got stupid prices also...

Rare D MI said:

RIU is the only forum where people are complaining right now. I never called anyone any names. I just asked what the members here would do if those were the prices, and put the situation into perspective for some younger or amateur growers.

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No not really. A lot of people are complaining about the prices everywhere. Now in these times 100+ a pack is too much for beans esp with all the options availible now. R.I.u. might seem like its the only place bitching but I've seen a thread about breeders selling f1s for 100+ on ic,thcfarm,grasscity,skunk skool ect. The only difference is people know how to not buy it and turn a blind eye instead of voicing there opinions here.

That's what I like about here you can voice your opinion but some tend to take it overboard.

And let's be real it does not cost much to knock up a plant and make a bunch of seeds I do that shit all the time.

I'm talking about specifically this price increase with RD and RIU. There are no threads or complaints about the increase on tsd or IC. I'm not talking about people bitching about prices.

Most people don't understand that RD isn't making more money from the increase. All breeders make a set price, it goes to a distributor, then to the seed bank. The distributor and Seedbank make the same as the breeder in most cases. Mrs rd has already said there is a new distributor and a new set of quality control hands being paid with the increase, as well as more secure packaging.

This goes the same for all breeders. The price is so high because of the distribution system. You guys are happy to have 24 hour access to thousands of strains via the Internet. That comes with the increased price tag. As mrs rd stated already. The original price in the original packaging was $100 a pack, they were able to cut costs and drop the prices, now costs have increased, so the price is back to the original price. Sorry if it is not worth an extra $20 to get 11 seeds of the same strains to any of you, but most people that are not just hobby growers understand the system and happily participate no matter what the cost, because genetics are the key to sustainability.

Usually the ones not willing to pay good money for good genes are not the one you want reviewing your strains. The have the single seed center and nirvana just for them!

Bigtacofarmer said:

Usually the ones not willing to pay good money for good genes are not the one you want reviewing your strains. The have the single seed center and nirvana just for them!

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Yeah greedy is greedy.

They get what about 10k seeds per plant?
They make about 5 bucks a seed and still don't think thats enough?
One MJ plant = 50k bucks but that is not enough money and we need to raise prices...

What's strange is RD has been around a couple years and you still cant find pics of finished plants from over half of their gear?

I have looked at every site their on?

Where are pics of Cougar Piss and 4-corners? I have those 2 going now.

RD should have hooked up a half dozen well known growers that have a good camera, and we should be able to see what were buying by now.

Every1 likes to act like growing MJ is hard...
About as hard as growing quality vegetables!
I know some "hobby" growers that produce better quality than dispensaries.

Actually I was saying that 100 for a pack is great! What do you sell your seeds for? How much did you spend growing out males? How many bullshit plants did you find looking for you parents. How about advertising and travel and all the other bullshit that breeders do. How did you do it? Oh, you didn't.

althor said:

Yeah greedy is greedy.

They get what about 10k seeds per plant?
They make about 5 bucks a seed and still don't think thats enough?
One MJ plant = 50k bucks but that is not enough money and we need to raise prices...

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IF the product is quality, you don't need advertisement.
+ having beans in almost every s33dbank is plenty of advertisement.

Travel is something we all pay for out our own pockets.
I don't charge my customers(car dealership) for traveling to auctions + such.
Charging customers more so you can Travel for free, that's real nice.
2 stud males x elite clones for the entire line-up isn't exactly a hard selection.

I personally don't care about the mark-up.
Justification is pointless, Should've just said> Seedbanks charge what they want.