Handsome David vrs. Kaiboshtastic Goliath: The Battle for Grow Equpiment!

I didn't really know where to put this but i thought this should be considered a joke as well so here goes...

I recently found out that The Grow Stores owner (the ones located on federal and colfax) was upset with his lack of profit and teamed up with Hydrofarm to track down his theoretical losses. They found out that resourceful growers were using their connections to order their equipment through garden distribution centers and the like in a completely legal manner. The Grow Store owner ( lets refer to him as Douchy McDoucherstien from now out for ease) was upset that his wall of 400% markup ballasts that was disapearing at an alarming rate wasn't quite going fast enough. I'm talking about selling 400+ ballasts a month and tripling his initial investment. Dont get me wrong. I love to see Capitalism in action, its a disgustingly beautiful thing. The problem is that Douchy McDoucherstien went to hydrofarm to point out that many of the people using the garden centers were using them to supply a garden of an illicitly delicious nature I.E. MMJ growing. He somehow failed to mention that his resourceful institutions have somehow cornered that market through the use of a profound lack of knowledge and his employees affinity for Methamphetamines( how else do they get so shady looking?) Its interesting to me that a store that has been around for it seems like ever is having problems with its gross sales. I wonder if its due to the fact that he taxes the shit out of the consumer while selling the consumer a product supposedly designed for indoor hydroponic tomato growing. Have you seen the tomatoes grown in there store? Besides being infested with spider mites ( "Oh, This bottle of Azatrol at 109.99$ + tax will definetely cure that! MSRP being 106.95$ Price to Douchy being less then $70 Trust me i have his distrubution prices) they look like the retarded baby that would come out of the prom queen and kings consumation of their love, in the back of a Kia, after drinking Mad Dogg 20/20 through the course of her pregnancy. The worst part about it is that Hydrofarm is playing the part of the cliche' dumb older football playing brother, protecting poor Douchy McDoucherstien's precious precious profits. Is this the Communist threat that Joseph McCarthy spoke so scarily about? It seems that if other distrubution centers are fine with selling more product at a reduced price, then they should naturally pull ahead of the capitalistic curve ( Reference McDonalds slightly less then meat Hamburgers and their domination). Hydrofarm sites not wanting to "provide a legal avenue to fund production of illegal substances". Hmmmmmmm, did Romer's Bill include something about MMJ in Colorado once again being illegal? Does Douchy McDoucherstien have an uncanny ability to be able to know which persons using for "illegal" grows and which one is not? If he has, congratulations! Hes smarter then the FBI DEA and CIA combined and should definetely get a job from them locating all these terrorists in the mist.
I hope people realize that both of these companies are participating in illegally blocking a small companies or individuals right to free trade and procurement of product. Does that mean that i shouldn't give medicine to a cancer patient for cheaper to meet their struggling needs? Should I make them go to the streets for medicine because "the streets" have been here longer?
What about everyone thats griping about prices of medicine being to high? I can tell you that anyone looking to start growing is now gonna have an initial start up cost that will be at least 2 to 3 times more expensive through Douchy McDoucherstiens establishment then through a garden center's wholesale. Hmmmmmmmmm, I wonder who that cost will be passed onto? If you want to really start attacking the price of MMJ I would highly recommend looking at the starting point of taxation and to me its seems to be blowing out Douchy's ass along with the rest of the smoke.

Example:

Xtrasun 1000w Convertible Ballast Sku BAC100A:
Douchy:$237.00
Hydrofarm MSRP: $209.95
Wholesale:$106.92

Wow! $20 + dollars over MSRP. You go Douche! Hopefully that extra money will go towards making your workers even sketchier, slower, and stupider.

So...How does somebody go about getting that great wholesale price? :D

By intense Suckling and coddling of douchy's cockpiece... don't forget to cup the nuts.

Seriously though Hydrofarm representatives personally shut down all smaller wholesale outfits, new small grow stores attempting to set up wholesale, and anyone else that Douchy McDoucherstien deemed was cutting into his profits.

America: Home of the trade embargo Land of Hypocrisy!

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Originally Posted by TerribleIdea

By intense Suckling and coddling of douchy's cockpiece... don't forget to cup the nuts.

Seriously though Hydrofarm representatives personally shut down all smaller wholesale outfits, new small grow stores attempting to set up wholesale, and anyone else that Douchy McDoucherstien deemed was cutting into his profits.

America: Home of the trade embargo Land of Hypocrisy!

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Shop at grow your own on Evans near 25...

Their prices are always at least 15% off MSRP, usually more. :rastasmoke:

fair prices, generally a long wait for help but friendly knowledgeable
Way to Grow - Colorado's Premier Source for Hydroponic and Organic Gardening
(especially cheap for hps 1000 systems)

don't even bother with the other grow store in boulder. they'll kick you out for mentioning MMJ. they suck.

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Originally Posted by copobo

fair prices, generally a long wait for help but friendly knowledgeable
Way to Grow - Colorado's Premier Source for Hydroponic and Organic Gardening
(especially cheap for hps 1000 systems)

don't even bother with the other grow store in boulder. they'll kick you out for mentioning MMJ. they suck.

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Their denver location opens Monday@@@!!!!!

Where will it be in Denver?

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Originally Posted by TerribleIdea

I didn't really know where to put this but i thought this should be considered a joke as well so here goes...

I recently found out that The Grow Stores owner (the ones located on federal and colfax) was upset with his lack of profit and teamed up with Hydrofarm to track down his theoretical losses....

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Example:

Xtrasun 1000w Convertible Ballast Sku BAC100A:
Douchy:$237.00
Hydrofarm MSRP: $209.95
Wholesale:$106.92

Wow! $20 + dollars over MSRP. You go Douche! Hopefully that extra money will go towards making your workers even sketchier, slower, and stupider.

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Not sure what the issue is here. The owner can charge whatever they feel they need to charge. If you know they overcharge, then just go elsewhere. There are plenty of other stores, so it's not like they have a monopoly. Am I missing something? Is there something illegal going on? Did they ask HydroFarm to stop selling to garden centers so this one store can corner the market on ballasts?

I'm not saying this owner isn't overcharging out of greed but we don't know for sure. Maybe their monthly expenditures/overhead is too high, maybe their employees are stealing from them blind so they have to pass that loss to their customers. Can't say for sure.

Luckily in a capitalistic society, stores like this one will eventually be weaned out as more & more consumers become informed and spend their money elsewhere, forcing stores like this out of business.

I appreciate you taking the time to let all of know they are overcharging, but as far as I can tell they aren't doing anything wrong.

My favorite local hydro store is Big Tomato. Their website usually prices items at MSRP but if you go in, they have sales & a "club card" saving you at least 10% or more.

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Originally Posted by ThaiBuddhaMan

Not sure what the issue is here. The owner can charge whatever they feel they need to charge. If you know they overcharge, then just go elsewhere. There are plenty of other stores, so it's not like they have a monopoly. Am I missing something?

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Personal vendetta perhaps?

I like BT too. Actually been helped there.

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Originally Posted by cotreeman

Where will it be in Denver?

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301 e 57th street, denver

maybe open this weekend

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Originally Posted by lampost

Personal vendetta perhaps?

I like BT too. Actually been helped there.

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Just don't mention MMJ. Let them you know you're trying to grow tomatoes! :thumbsup: