Prices

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Originally Posted by oldhaole

I am not familiar with Washington Law. You are all bitching about the middleman mark up. Who needs them? Growers should form a co ops and sell small quanities directly to the consumer. Small quantities ( 1 oz a day)can not be resold for a big profit. In reality the growers are in the drivers seat. They just haven't got together and figured that out yet.

As your bussiness expands, you bring new members in. You brick and mortar opperational costs could be made public and a cut added to each sale to keep the lights on. Your profit rate should also be shown, so everybody knows exactly what they are paying for. The co op should be totaly transparent.

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Most consumers don't want to buy an ounce at a time. They want to buy either grams, or 1/8 or sometimes a 1/4.


The vast majority of growers producing serious weight want to sell 1/4 pounds or more at a time.

The middle man exists because the desires of the growers and the desires of the consumers are different.


That doesn't mean that an all grower co op couldn't form, but it seems that its just not what both parties (grower and consumer) want.


Growers want pound level transaction, consumers want pound level prices but <1 ounce transactions. If there were a lot more dispensaries I think the increase in consumer level supplies would suppress the end consumer pricing, but we will just have to wait and see.

The co op will sell any quanity up to an oz a day.

I am a grower and I do OK in terms of weight brought in. I will happily sell an oz. I get a slightly higher price and I put my product out there. Then the quality sells the qt lb on the next go round. So I swipe bussiness from other growers. It's called competition.

You are talking a business here. You don't need new growers. You need a stable of maybe 6 people that do good work. And are willing to work together.

Once again it all comes down to why you are doing this. If you are doing this to make big bucks it won't work. If you are looking to make fair bucks it will.

I thought the goal is to get rid of the middleman, so you become him.
To do that you keep cash on hand to pick up a good deal that drops in your lap, put your posted fixed cost on it and sell it at that price.

Now I know nothing about Washington. But the second It becomes Legal to sell here in Hawaii (my guess in 2 years) I'm going to do something like this.

Iʻm going to be moving to the Seattle Area for Grad school and iʻve got quite a few friends from Washington, Also iʻve been to the area a few times and prices have always been lower than the national average of 50-8th, 100-1/4 etc...

Iʻve gotten A+ grade meds for $210-$225 an Oz on average, Hash on the other hand was fairly sh!tty but itʻs safe to say iʻve not had the ability to really shop around.

but it seems that prices have gone up somewhat, is this indicative of the entire state or just a few areas ?

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Originally Posted by oldhaole

The co op will sell any quanity up to an oz a day.

I am a grower and I do OK in terms of weight brought in. I will happily sell an oz. I get a slightly higher price and I put my product out there. Then the quality sells the qt lb on the next go round. So I swipe bussiness from other growers. It's called competition.

You are talking a business here. You don't need new growers. You need a stable of maybe 6 people that do good work. And are willing to work together.

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What you are describing would work to service maybe 100 patients who used a minority of their 60 day supply. Which is to say, you wouldn't be influencing the market unless there were another 500 collectives just like yours...at which point, consumer side supply would match demand and the market would adjust. At the moment however, we are looking at just a handful of dispensaries in areas like Tacoma (or NONE in other areas) where the prices at the consumer level are the highest.

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Originally Posted by FlyinPolynesian

Iʻm going to be moving to the Seattle Area for Grad school and iʻve got quite a few friends from Washington, Also iʻve been to the area a few times and prices have always been lower than the national average of 50-8th, 100-1/4 etc...

Iʻve gotten A+ grade meds for $210-$225 an Oz on average, Hash on the other hand was fairly sh!tty but itʻs safe to say iʻve not had the ability to really shop around.

but it seems that prices have gone up somewhat, is this indicative of the entire state or just a few areas ?

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its 100% dependent on who you know.

I second that lemon..Howdy partner.:thumbsup:

$150 for a 1/4...wow,someones getting rich....:( i would never pay that,.

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Originally Posted by tango244ns

$150 for a 1/4...wow,someones getting rich....:( i would never pay that,.

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There are those white collar professional types that will pay a big mark up to maintain their anonymity. Its a blue collar world, and a white collar world, and the blues won't pay the big price for the same product. Its all in the clientele. Just like more affluent neighborhoods sell gas for a higher mark-up, and they will pay it. They don't worry about where the next buck is coming from.

I prefer the stack it deep and sell it cheap model and still maintain quality regardless of the product. You do a better business. And frankly, that is the way the Jewish business men do it by co-opting. :twocents: