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Vendor Name/Marketplace: |
Portal/Hansa |
Product/s reviewed: |
$650 QP Liberty Haze - TOP SHELF |
International?: |
(list countries) n/a |
Vendor requires FE?: |
(yes or no) NO |
Price before shipping: |
$650 |
Shipping cost : |
USPS - $10 |
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Superb: Polite, prompt, ensures satisfaction |
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Good: Professional, exhibits customer care |
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Satisfactory: Adequate responses, resolved issue |
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Bad: Poor communication, no resolution |
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Highest purity - highly potent |
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Mostly pure - potent |
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Minor cut or impurity - strong |
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Almost entirely cut - very weak |
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Possibly bunk - no effect |
Processing Speed: | pick one below |
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Processed & marked shipped in 24hrs |
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Processed & marked shipped in 48 hrs |
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Processed & marked shipped in 72 hrs |
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Package is late |
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Never received package |
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Moderate - worthy value & fair cost |
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Below-market - so-so value, high cost |
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Exorbitant - low value, excessive cost |
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Rip-off - little-to-no value, unjustified cost |
Stealth & OpSec: | check all that apply |
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Vacuum-sealed |
[x]+1 |
Mylar/non-porous container |
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Decoy/misdirection |
[x]+1 |
Low package profile |
[x]+1 |
Good OpSec/PGP |
(20x4 for 80% ) |
I'm reviewing some top shelf from Portal on Hansa. When I ordered, he informed me that he was currently out of top shelf and that he could ship me out some regular indoor with extra the next door or wait until he got more in. It was supposedly only a 2 day wait for more, so I decided to wait. He contacted me when he got more and said when he should be able to ship it out by, received it 2 days later from said ship date. Even though I had to wait a few days, it still took under a week from order to delivery. The packaging was more than sufficient with the amount of vac bags and mylar. A little bit more effort put into the boundary layer between vac's and package than other vendors. On the customer service front and delivery, everything went well enough where I would be comfortable ordering from the vendor again.
Now onto the bud. Right away upon opening up the last vac layer, I was hit with an extremely nice nose, a nice fruity/berry with a sweet sativa pine smell. First impression of the bud right away was that it seemed a bit dry, there was a little layer of shake at the bottom of the bag. Breaking apart a small piece of bud made a mini explosion of kief, will be good to replenish the stock in the grinder. It had a pretty good smoke right away, a smooth mellow tasting smoke with a little itch. The high was noticeable with the first bowl, I smoke about 1g a day, more of a heady euphoric buzz, not heavy body buzzes. I definitely noticed some better potential in it and was looking forward to seeing how it changes in the next few weeks curing in my jar. I use 62% RH (relative humidity) packets in my bud jars, it's been a little over a week and there's been great improvement. The smoke has smoothed out more and has more pronounced tastes, hard to describe but its tasty. The looks are a standard generic lighter green with decent orange hair and trichome coverage. In my state with no medical, this stuff would be top shelf for most people. However I'd have to say it is some quality indoor for the price, that could've been far better with a better dry and cure.
The overall weight came in at 112.6, right on point. 105.73g of it was whole buds, with 6.87g of shake. For a top shelf listing I would expect no shake, but with how dry these buds were at first, there would inevitably be at least some from this quantity in transit. That's a pretty low amount of shake, its good quality still, not really leafy. Perfect for the Volcano, so took it as personal. After having some time with the bud, I would definitely buy more from the vendor at this price point looks a little better in person than picture. It's been pretty good on the resale end.
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Vendor Name/Marketplace: |
NWCannabisAndConcentrates/Hansa |
Product/s reviewed: |
$220 Oz Platinum Girl Scout Cookies - TOP SHELF |
International?: |
(list countries) n/a |
Vendor requires FE?: |
(yes or no) NO |
Price before shipping: |
$220 |
Shipping cost : |
USPS - $7 |
Customer Service: | pick one below with an "x" like this: [x] |
[X]+5 |
Superb: Polite, prompt, ensures satisfaction |
[]+4 |
Good: Professional, exhibits customer care |
[ ]+3 |
Satisfactory: Adequate responses, resolved issue |
[ ]+2 |
Marginal: Subpar communication, partial resolution |
[ ]+1 |
Bad: Poor communication, no resolution |
[ ]+0 |
Awful: Abusive responses, no resolution |
Product Quality: | pick one below |
[X]+5 |
Highest purity - highly potent |
[]+4 |
Mostly pure - potent |
[ ]+3 |
Minor cut or impurity - strong |
[ ]+2 |
Cut and/or impure - medium to weak |
[ ]+1 |
Almost entirely cut - very weak |
[ ]+0 |
Possibly bunk - no effect |
Processing Speed: | pick one below |
[ ]+5 |
Processed & marked shipped in 24hrs |
[x]+4 |
Processed & marked shipped in 48 hrs |
[ ]+3 |
Processed & marked shipped in 72 hrs |
[ ]+2 |
Package is late |
[ ]+1 |
Package is very late |
[ ]+0 |
Never received package |
Price Value: | pick one below |
[X]+5 |
Excellent - great value & low cost |
[]+4 |
Moderate - worthy value & fair cost |
[ ]+3 |
At-market - neither good nor bad |
[ ]+2 |
Below-market - so-so value, high cost |
[ ]+1 |
Exorbitant - low value, excessive cost |
[ ]+0 |
Rip-off - little-to-no value, unjustified cost |
Stealth & OpSec: | check all that apply |
[x]+1 |
Vacuum-sealed |
[x]+1 |
Mylar/non-porous container |
[ ]+1 |
Decoy/misdirection |
[x]+1 |
Low package profile |
[x]+1 |
Good OpSec/PGP |
(24x4 for 92% ) |
I had some extra money and wanted to order something different mostly for personal, a higher quality top shelf. NWC's listing pic for this Platinum GSC looked so good, I kept coming back to it after checking out all the other offerings in the 200-250 range. I've ordered some GSC from other vendors before and never been very satisfied, 1 was greenhouse, 2 were supposed to be indoor. They all were very dissappointing and among my worst grabs in the last few years. So I was hesitant to try this strain again, even though I've been hearing rave things about it ever since it's introduction. He did not dissapoint, 1 of the more accurate listing pics for high quality bud on DNM's that I've seen. While it's obvious he has a pretty nice cherry picked bud, most of what I received was pretty damn close to it in looks. It also had a very nice strong smell, sweet smells but also a strong hashy smell mixed with it. The THC coverage is ridiculous, some nice purple/oranges in virtually all the buds, almost perfect cure level. Not moist, but nowhere near as dry as the liberty haze. It's got a smooth tasty smoke that leaves a hashy/rezzy feeling on your lips, it hits pretty quick and hard. Not really a hard body buzz thats going to put you in a couch lock, its a nice hybrid feeling with more to it than the haze, still a heady high thats euphoric and energetic in smaller amounts. It's definitely easy to smoke a little too much and will get my eyes really drowsy matching bowls with people in a short period of time.
NWC was extremely on point with packaging and shipping speed once shipped. Came quicker than I expected as it was a weekend order. This was really just a fantastic transaction, didn't have any need to communicate with them. There were no issues and I received it lightning quick, this may be the best quality single oz I've purchased at the price. For $230 shipped, this is some absurdly good stuff. I've bought plenty of oz's 250-280 on various DNM's and been far far more disappointed.
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thanks for the review and pics ive been wanting to try nwcc. btw your first gsc link is messed up you got an xtra ' at the end