I don't even live in a med state. But this fellas post just made me cringe a bit due to a recent situation. My broker so to speak gets X amount for X $$. His regular customers buy and smoke and enjoy. Seems he met some new buyer that is tryin to re sell again. He complained to broker that the few remaining sugar leafs need to be taken off before he will buy again.Would you believe my broker actually passed that complaint to me and asked me to take care of it???FUCK YOU!! Was my exact words. See if I sell you a car pretty cheap and you buy it,then you decide to sell it for a profit,YOUR buyer buys it and decides he can profit,then the next buyer complains that it could use new tires for that price???? WTF does that have to do with me??? You were happy with the car when you bought it from me!!! I don't give a damn about where it went from there!!! Sorry for the rant, But I kinda feel your pain. GREED is the game!!Good for you. Here's your brownie button. Sorry but you've done nothing that a whole slew of us hereabouts haven't done.
" A lot of negativity" , damn straight there is and your avoidance of the specific issues and attempt to spindoctor it off to avoid said issues speaks volumes.
Sorry but there is *ZERO* excuse for certain crap on *both* sides , but the fact is that even a goodly portion of those issues originating with the grower are due to greedy dispensary owners , sure a producer shouldn't be be bringing moldy bud to market , bet then the dispensaries shouldn't be lowballing that same bud , buying it and reselling it.
Then we could address how some dispensaries treat the *good* growers. The folks that they might conceivably *need* down the road after this shakeout is over and all the " stars in their eyes" greedy idiots have shaken out.
I do some stuff with a couple of dispensaries , both of which are run by oldtimers from very pre 215/420 , they know how things used to be done and conduct *business* , they don't throw a front on you , they don't bullshit , they won't buy bad product.......they WILL treat you fairly and keep their word right down to the time etc.
Why? Because they remember what the consequences of not keeping ones word in this thing once were.
Dispensary folks don't have those consequences , so hence a percentage of them will act like jackasses just because they can.
Me , well I just walk on such crap.....dropped a sample at a dispensary in Oakland , they called , agreed to a donation and I drove the miles , get there and suddenly the donation is a hell of a lot less along with " we could consign it for you".........I walked without another word , when I got home there was already a message meeting my price and asking me to come back down.
Unfortunately my answer to them was " Not at any price EVER."
Here's another reason I won't do consignment , y'all start taking a scope to buds purchased from dispensaries sometime and you might be surprised and rather disgusted at what you see. Tumble my bud for a bit of sift and you'd best not try to give it back to me.
I've been at this a long time , I keep up my end and you'll *never* hear me make excuses for some of the CRAP that goes on from the growers end , and quite frankly I'm fed up with hearing all the crap excuses from the dispensaries.
Clean up your own act , 'cause in the last analysis most dispensaries are dead in the water without the good growers.
And really? We were here before you , we'll be here after the short term pirates are long gone.