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oddish

oddish

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Agracan said:
I have to agree that there will be a market for it (Recreational for the most part, or super rich patients). As an example: $400 gold print toilet paper. It exists and it sells. I know because I've personally talked to the company (German). They move the most product in Russia, China and UAE. It's not huge volume, just a few hundreds units per month, but still there are those out there who want to wipe their ass with gold.
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The international market is wild. If you look at China's consumption of expensive wines it's outrageous. If I'm not mistaken they just topped the list of top countries for wine consumption - a huge change.

Even in Canada though it all exists. I've worked with luxury companies that sell $1500 hookah pipes and they sell out.
They sell $1200 pipes and they sell out. It's insanity and it's reality.
 
The Hippy

The Hippy

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You guys who think the markets the limit by price...are probably right....some folks will buy on price alone.
 
oddish

oddish

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Some folks will buy on price alone - but that goes both ways.
There are customers who wouldn't buy a $5 gram because they expect it to be the lower-end product.
They'll buy that identical bud for $15 a gram because they assume the price dictates the quality.

There's a whole other factor tied to entertaining. If it's on your mantle and you tell people, "That shit is $15 a gram" everyone will think you have the best shit and know what you're talking about. Just like your cufflinks, they'll think you have such good taste :)
 
The Hippy

The Hippy

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I saw those gold rolling papers at the expo...$7 buck per paper....didn't see many folks jumpin on that though
would anyone here spend that on those papers/
 
CalyxCrusher

CalyxCrusher

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oddish said:
I looked up this "#1 rule of marketing" and the first 3 relevant results:







The #2 rule?



I know it seems ludicrous and irrational, but so are $1300 cufflinks and that shit sells every single day.
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The difference Devil Lettuce is trying to make I believe is that at the end of the day everyone has access to the same genetics to grow. So ultimately when hypothetically comparing what these crooks have to offer as compared to their competitors it's not so much Porsche vs. regular commuter. It's Porshe vs. Porshe, since they're ALL growing strains available to ANYONE. It then becomes a matter of who sells the Porshe that's in the best condition. No magic strains that no one else has. Why do you think they're so adamant on not giving the ACTUAL strain name or lineage? To hide behind packaging and marketing. One of which has little to NO effect on the quality of the end result and it's selling price. This is simply passing the buck on to the patients since they were too dim witted to keep their overhead down.
 
oddish

oddish

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I can agree with that, but you're also assuming that every recreational marijuana user understands these things. That's not the reality. I know both medical and recreational users that don't know anything about strains - they buy from whoever they buy from and they buy based on promised effects. If you told them there were only X strains in the world, that would be news to them.
 
CalyxCrusher

CalyxCrusher

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oddish said:
I can agree with that, but you're also assuming that every recreational marijuana user understands these things. That's not the reality. I know both medical and recreational users that don't know anything about strains - they buy from whoever they buy from and they buy based on promised effects. If you told them there were only X strains in the world, that would be news to them.
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Partially agree with you. I know people who like you said, don't know much. But they aren't so gullible to pay more than what something appears to be worth. I've seen this time and time again for god knows how many years and in how many cities, towns, municipalities.
 
Devil Lettuce

Devil Lettuce

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oddish said:
I can agree with that, but you're also assuming that every recreational marijuana user understands these things. That's not the reality. I know both medical and recreational users that don't know anything about strains - they buy from whoever they buy from and they buy based on promised effects. If you told them there were only X strains in the world, that would be news to them.
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That is all about the change with commercial medical and eventually recreational. There will be an explosion of knowledge, and in a year or two everyone will know all about strains......it will be "unhip" to not know these things, so the rich trendy types will take the time to learn just like with wine and scotch. Go anywhere it is legal, and all anyone talks about is strains and genetics.
 
oddish

oddish

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Agracan said:
My flowers listened to Mozart all throughout the cycle so they're worth $35 per gram
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The key is to have someone actually sing Mozart to them so that their exhaling gets onto the plant and makes it grow stronger.
Then it's easily worth $35, especially if the singer is well known.
 
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