List of clubs that rip off vendors in Cali

Mithrandir420

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Oh I agree! But look what companies it took to overthrow the others. You will need to hit the streets, travel to all the shows to get your name out, new content, deal with weedmaps trying to fuck with you..... So many things to worry about.


Not saying it's not possible because I would LOVE to get honest reviews for clubs but it's not going to happen anytime soon. You also have to remember that weedmaps is like a "map of the stars" to the Feds. 3 clicks and they can look at several potential dispensaries to shut down so you have to worry about dispensaries not wanting to be on the list. I think the era of weedmaps is over because the scene has changed so much and most dispensaries have been shut down so it's almost useless.
Well the first part is covered with cash. Investment money would go more to marketing than anything else.

The second part is tough. But as long as there are dispensaries they need an avenue to advertise. Also I don't think "most" dispensaries have shut down. There are still literally thousands of them out there, open and doing business. But you are right in that it's pretty hot out there right now. Now is not a good time to open a dispensary, I think.
 

angryblackman

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For example the ones that were in the Sac area were storefronts and advertised on Weedmaps. But when the FEDs were in town last year everyone pulled advertising and went "delivery only" and weedmaps now looks like a baren wasteland compared to what it was the year before last. :(
 

420mon

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SMC Stockton Medical Collective, I ran across their ad http://stockton.craigslist.org/wan/3176293009.html

Anyway I never vended before but since I did just harvest I figured i'd take a trimmed qp of GC and a qp of sour D

I went in and they had me bring in my meds, they liked them alot and asked how much I was asking and if I had more.

Anyway mon asked me not to trim anymore and just bring it all in pretrimmed so he can get cheaper and he made an offer and said he would take all of it and wanted me to bring everything I had back around 5 pm.

I went home and got everything ready and over weighted so no problems etc.....I go back at 5pm and the guy start acting weird and different than when I see him that morning and has two other guys there and after a while of awkwardness and him acting weird he say you know, you will get the money in 2 weeks and that it is consignment right?

BUT my pimp hand is strong and I told those foolios I was coolio and bounced wit my shizzle and that was my first and last experience tryin to vend....I guess maybe I didn't get ripped off but they wasted my time and sure felt like they was setin me up to jack my shizzle for sizzle dizzle bizzle fuck those bitches actin like they gonna pay me for my time and then pull some please give us your shitzzle dizzle and we will pay you later? wtf is that shizzle dizzle bizzle?
 

Xub420

Active Member
IDk if this counts here:::?// But a couple local dispensaries claim "BudGenius" as a sham. And I did notice one of them have a complete change in strains. That would lead me to believe that they themselves have shammed or were shammed by a or their suppliers.
 

rumblen

Active Member
TIM ALLEN SMITH.
420 SMOKE SHOP IN SANTA ANA. FORMERLY CHCC IN COSTA MESA.

This guy owes money to EVERYONE!
Claims to be backed by the Hells Angels. He is a bullshitter. Took me 7 months to get 90% of the money he owed me. He tried to threaten me with violence and I put his bitch ass in his place real quick.

Google his name and you can see he is a scam artist in more than one industry. He is middle aged fat, short guy and WILL GIVE YOU A DIFFERENT NAME, or tell you he isnt the owner, etc etc. Watch out for this fucking clown. Uses these phone numbers:
760-208-7254
949-295-4786

Ive posted this idiots info all over the internet and gotten SO MANY replies from people saying he owes them money also. He actually has the balls to respond sometimes and talk shit like he isnt the scammer. JUST GOOGLE HIS NAME AND YOU WILL SEE.
 

SkyZUU

Active Member
this is a joke ... the only reason why I'm getting my license is to grow for myself . I'm tired of friends telling me how ripped off their getting . Clinics buying top shelf nug for 2200/p or 2500/p flipping it for 50 or 45/8th .. add that up .. I've seen 18/g or 20/g for 'alright' bud too... Its really embarassing . Makes me feel bad for patients that really need medicine and they aren't getting what they really should be getting.
 

SkyZUU

Active Member
Neither was the rest of the thread(very few posts actually kept on topic) ^ also . I have my cousins gf's uncle who's been diagnosed with aids ( blood transfusion ) fighting for this country. He tells me all the time how he would rather purchase quality buds . The man has aids, doesn't wanna spend how ever many years he has left . smoking crappy bud for cheap money . yes he pays the top dollar for the good buds, but its out of his pockets. all the goverment is 'HELPING' to pay for is his treatment.. Anyways, showing him this thread , blew his mind . Not only has he said 'Fuck the goverment' he doesn't really 'believe' anymore.. doctors said they were going to take care of him and they screwed him over permanently . Now these dispensaries are trying to play over people that are trying to purchase their meds .

Also 'recreational' no. I was getting prescribed Xanax for watching my friend getting shot with a stray bullet, n having to hold him there in the streets at the age of 15 ' WRONG PLACE WRONG TIME ' . I took this so I would 'forget' n not think about it to often , it made me keep a smile on my face . Zalepon because I wouldn't be able to sleep at nights, and would have nightmares about it . thats just the main reasons why I started those two 'prescriptions' At 17 I tried some 'medical marijuana' illegally I guess, But I havn't touched a xanax or zalepon since the moment I smoked this magnificent plant . I don't smoke to just smoke , it makes me who I am today . THC has helped a lot of lives , my family and friends especially .
 

Dan Kone

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Please keep this thread to specific collectives/dispensaries who are not paying what they promised to pay, not about bad pricing for buds. I know, a lot of people think dispensary bud is too expensive, but this is a resource thread to protect vendors from thievery.
 

BustinScales510

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Ill add hercules health center (bay area). Theyre really ghetto..a friend of mine vouched for them and I took in stuff a couple times and got paid (payout was a few weeks). But then I took in a couple pounds and when it came time to pay they got shifty and started dribbling out only a few hundred dollars at a time, and have pretty much stopped now altogether.Ive called and theyre not answering the phone,guess Ill just have to show up and see what the deal is. I think they are really behind with payments for a lot of people from what I hear and the employees act really stupid so I dont think theyll be able to dig out of it and will probably shut down without paying their debts off.
 

Dan Kone

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Ill add hercules health center (bay area). Theyre really ghetto..a friend of mine vouched for them and I took in stuff a couple times and got paid (payout was a few weeks). But then I took in a couple pounds and when it came time to pay they got shifty and started dribbling out only a few hundred dollars at a time, and have pretty much stopped now altogether.Ive called and theyre not answering the phone,guess Ill just have to show up and see what the deal is. I think they are really behind with payments for a lot of people from what I hear and the employees act really stupid so I dont think theyll be able to dig out of it and will probably shut down without paying their debts off.
Those fuckers made a deal with me at HempCon last year. In traffic it took me 5 hours to get there. And when I got their they then told me they weren't going to honor the deal they made, offered me less money and only wanted to do consignment after they quoted me another price + cash up front before. I left and never went back.
 

BustinScales510

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Man that sucks. I wish I had never got tangled up with them. They are permanently etched into my shitlist..hopefully others will read what we've said and avoid them like herpes.
 

Nightmarecreature

Active Member
If EVERYONE took cash up front, this would not happen. It would also keep the market from getting so flooded, they would only be able to buy more from the profits they make.
 

sfttailpaul

Active Member
Its sad to see all of the Dispensary rip offs and issues. Its this kind of thing that continues to keep this medication illegal, cause all of the supposed caregivers are acting like nothing but glorified drug dealers, and this is the same reasoning behind all of the Fed Raids. Its also why the Feds are not bothering with the personal homegrower, as long as you are in a state that allows it.

I too was ripped off by emarijanaclones.com,, But his name was Paul, and rambles on and on over the phone. He admitted to me that he has NO Knowledge of Growing and after getting some very sad looking G13 Clones from him,, Growing them for a couple of months, it became clear that I was sold 4 clones and 3 different strains, so I had no idea what they were. They were also selling unrooted clones, and he had no Idea why that was not acceptable. He/They are basically just a middle mad selling other growers clones, which became pretty obvious, pretty quickly.

I dare not use the word UNION, because I dont believe in them any longer, but this industry does need to get it together, and adopted some standards, or we will continue to get nowhere, which is probably what the feds want. The second we band together and really show this industry can be legit, is when we will make some headway,, But you simply cant have a dispensary owned and operated by 3 people, convince anyone that they are proper caregivers for 4000 patients... This is the argument that the Feds are using to shut down dispensaries, and they should be getting shut down because of Fraud and Theft.

If everyone just formed a basic collective, then the Feds would certainly have a harder time.
That is one and the same. This guy operates under several names, Paul is only one of them...
 

payformeds

New Member
Hopefully over time it will get bigger. I'm hoping this list keeps going so vendors can use it as a resource.
This same crap is going on in OREGON....3 years ago i called it the year of the THIEF and never got payed from any one...If i have to sale it one gram at a time on CL and get payed for the gram thats what i do from now on...NO FRONTS!....I just got done reading this whole thread, and i dont know why but it makes me feel better seeing it didnt just happen to me...lol..I have been doing this for over 30 years now and in the last 3 years of being in MM..OMMP..I have been robbed more, treated the worse i have ever been treated as a grower, called names, and all from People that want free pot from me...lol..i wonder how that is working for them?...lol.
 

Soupsah

Active Member
Stay away from Purple Lotus Patient Center in San Jose.
125 n Jackson Avenue #108, San Jose, Ca 95116


Stay away from this place if you value your time. It took me over 3 months to get paid. Going their every other week. I swear I think I only got paid cuz they were out and wanted more of my flowers. I checked out their review on weedmaps and see that their bud quality has gone down and people are not happy about it. It seems the never ending vendors they thought they had is tired of their shit and have gone else where, like me.

Hey Dan, How about you update your first post with a list of places that people should avoid.
 

Rusty Shakelford

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My 2 cents is that if the Dispensary wants your flowers to sell, then they should pay for them up front, and make their profit after they sell it off... If they have overhead like any other business, then they should have the funds to cover it, or get a business loan in order to get them though until they are able to sell what they invested in, and then use the profits to pay down their debts,, Whatever is left over is for them to pocket or put back into the business.

Its just easier to get Upfront product without any real out of pocket expense, and then let you try to sue them if they dont pay off. Although it looks like the tide is changing and getting upfront product is going to get harder and harder to make happen.
 

Soupsah

Active Member
The problem with consignment is that the grower takes all the risk. If anything happens to the disp. than the grower is not getting paid. Most growers are small time (Me), and will be hurting if that ever happen. Ultimately it's up to the growers to take consignment or not and most do. If most didn't than I would think the dispensary would start digging in their pockets and do COD. IMO I don't think most are not able to pay up front. I think they don't because they don't have to due to the amount of growers that walk through their door.

What is the day to day cost of running a dispensary?
What is the average day sales?
Do you thinks it's ok to open a business and borrow at some poor schmucks risk?
 
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