Silk Road forums
Market => Rumor mill => Topic started by: Holland_SR on October 02, 2011, 12:38 pm
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Hi there,
Trying to get established as a weed seller, still new to Silk Road. Made my listing but it is hard to get things going. Good stuff, lowest price and great feedback, so that can't the problem. What is it??
Am I overlooking something? Is the offer understandable? Please check it out:
http://ianxz6zefk72ulzz.onion/index.php/silkroad/item/9845
Good ideas and suggestions here will get 1BTC straight away!
Thanks!
Holland
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your profile says "Power Plant is one of the most popular in Dutch coffeeshops. It contains 17-20% THC.", and the listing says "Power Plant is the most popular variety in Dutch coffee shops. It
contains 17-19% THC.". As a customer I would think that this percentage is just a sales gimmick, because seller says two different things about the same product. :)
I imagine lots of people, even from EU are nervous about receiving stuff from NL. But I guess there isn't much you can do about this.
You could mention how you are going to resolve issues with packages that doesn't arrive. I personally find it reassuring that sellers takes some responsibility about the arrival of goods.
Let people know that you are looking for nothing but 5/5 feedbacks. It's good to know that seller will care about you even after you send the bitcoins.
Can't think of anything else. You have a strong forum presence, which is very good IMO. I know lots of people don't post here, but check the feedbacks about sellers. I imagine your ball will start running. I actually took a close look at your listing earlier today, thinking that this is something I might try in the future.
Oh, and by the way, someone else from NL is having weekend sale for PowerPlant. 10g for 75$. Your price comes close to that with 5+1 offer, but you might wanna list these discounts in price number. Like buy 1g pay 10$ per gram, buy 5g pay 8.35$ per gram, etc. Oh, and you could offer better deals for customers buying 50g+ at once. That's something I am personally interested in:)
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I agree with most of what you said. Thanks a lot. Send me your address and i will send you 1gr, else if you give the SR username i can send you 1 btc.. quicker.
About getting 50gr, how would you normally expect to receive that? One sizable envelope?
I am close to Germany so I can easily post from there. Also Belgium, although there the post service is slow. I might make 1gr, 3gr, 5gr, 10gr amd 25gr auctions I think. Maybe I should use ounces as well for the US.
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I am quite new here but I have placed a couple of orders and one of the main things I look for is feedback. I can see you are starting to get some positive feedback so I think it's just going to take a little bit of time. The more you get, the more trusted you will become and with the prices you are offering, I imagine you will be selling in volume before too long. The snowball effect seems more relevant here than most places.
You also have two listings for the same product? Maybe I don't understand how it works for sellers, but to me, that just seems like you'll get less feedback per listing. Admittedly, good feedback on 2 listings may have a benefit but when I check a listing and it has multiple pages of positive feedback, I have a lot of confidence. How about having just one listing and when the feedback does start to come in, you'll get a lot on the one product you are selling.
Whilst on listings, why not have listings for larger volumes? You can include your discount if you wish, say, 12g for $100. I wouldn't consider telling you what to sell for but if I buy in bulk, it makes me feel better good that I am getting a discount, not just a 1g price multiplied. Shipping alone costs you less so you should let us know you are passing that on. Makes me smile - and also buy more.
As mentioned in the above post, you have embraced the forums which will do you know end of good. Your prices are very good so all in all, I think you will do fine. I am going to order 10g from you - just waiting for the funds to arrive. I will post on your review thread to share my experience with the community.
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I agree with what other members said and i'd like to see different listings for different quantities (5/10/25/50 hell why not a 100 8) )
It would be very good sending orders larger than 10g from Germany if it's that close to you. I'd feel a lot more comfortable with my buy.
Many people would be interested in Europe since prices are kinda high in our region compared to the US for example.
It's funny MrM, I contacted Holland earlier today to ask him a couple questions and told him I was gonna buy 10g from him and was waiting for funds to get to my SR account too ;D.
Will report back when my ganja arrives ;)
Good luck Holland, you seem like a cool vendor 8)
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Many people would be interested in Europe since prices are kinda high in our region compared to the US for example.
It's funny MrM, I contacted Holland earlier today to ask him a couple questions and told him I was gonna buy 10g from him and was waiting for funds to get to my SR account too ;D.
Just like you said, prices are quite high for EU, I wouldn't be surprised if there are a few others this side of the world transferring funds to give it a go. I actually bought some weed from another vendor that I am waiting for but with these prices, I couldn't resists another order....
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A few things I would change (and take note i'm being hyper critical here because that's what you asked for.
1. Your picture. It's clear you took some time to make it, but its too cluttered, we don't need 4 small pictures in one, just a good resolution pic of one good bud next to a piece of paper with your username and perhaps the words Silk Road on it, so we can see best the quality of the weed as far as a picture can tell you. Also you probably shouldn't have in your pic a pic of your packaging (top middle). Giving away your packaging tricks is exactly what the LE trolls who sit silently on this board looking for (most of the LE here are actually the silent ones that no one is really aware of, the 'suspicious' sellers are mostly scam artist douche bags trying to steal your money, not arrest you, LE would get much better info just sitting back silently listening to ppl incriminate themselves and/or reveal the tricks/secrets we use to trade our wares. I think it's because LE are mostly poorly educated, typically not having more then a basic high school education (by basic I mean they couldn't even achieve 80s) that instead of truly protecting us by pursuing dangerous crimes, they exert their 'authority' on harmless adult to adult drug 'trafficking'/'sales'/whatever word they choose to use, to make them feel better about their own pathetic lives? .... Anyways I am now rambling hard, I just have great disdain for law enforcement OFFICERS.
2. Don't put that "some recent feedback" section. It makes your posting look like a cheap infomercial lol. Besides that, all I need to do is scroll to the bottom of the page and see all of your recent feedbacks, especially 'freshness' which is pretty important.
3. Don't ever make claims about the chemical composition of an organic substance unless you are prepared to provide the mass spectrum plot from the GC/MS separation and fragmentation/ionization of the volatile terpenes in your sample (this is how you get a relative statistically confident extrapolation of cannibinoid content), or similarly HPLC, NMR (COSY/TOCSY), radiolabelling, etc. Obviously most drug users have no idea what I just said lol, but my point is that dealers have been doing this "it has xx% THC" "it is <attempted clever strain name>" (and then when you ask them if this amazing strain is indica or sativa they go ... uh, I don't know, what strain is indica ...".
I personally will just walk right away from any new dealer i'd never met whose trying to sell me weed and hype it up with the strain names, THC content (which as I hope you gathered from above requires a bit of effort and skill to ascertain), that it will give me the supernatural power of shutting my wife's mouth when she's annoying me with her nagging, make my penis larger ... ok I made those last two up, but u get what i'm saying :P
I should note too that from what I can see from your pic (which isn't much because you have like 4 small pics in one pic) that bud on the right does NOT have 17% cannibinoids (it looks like average USA weed to me, in other words absolute shit).
I'm not hating on you by the way, you just asked for advice, and I say things like I see them !
Feel free to donate me 1 BTC if you wish :P PM me for my bitcoin address (i'm poor as shit lol)
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Just got my order from Holland, and couldn't be any happier with it.
Very good quality for the price, reminds me of many strains I tried locally during my trips to the Netherlands.
Even got some extra :D
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Thanks man, will buy again soon ^^