Bohemia/Cannabia are very popular with the cannabis vendors. I took a quick look at your posts here and it looks like you are a single source operation. Do you make your own concentrates?
Bohemia was the first one I was able to login to, so good to hear on that.
As for making my own concetrates, not anymore. I still have the equipment stored to do it, but the weed market got the worst its ever been, and real estate got the best its ever been, so I sold off my lab in September.
If I sold anything anymore, it would likely just be flower. I dont have any confidence in the concentrate market ever recovering enough to be able to survive at the ma and pop level. I kept my equipment just in case, but if I were to able dabble in dabs again it would be just reselling from a larger lab thats just pushing out lb after lb, most likely.
I was a customer of yours on Alphabay back in like 2016-2017 and remember the grammed out shatter in those envelopes very fondly. The only time I ever took a gram dab was off your stuff. I think it was the strain XJ-13.
Would also loved to see you on the Stoned Illuminati vendor list on Telegram.
I don't know much about telegram, but I heard about that channel and did reach out to a couple vendors on there who said they could possibly help me on there. That said, I did leave for a year for no explanation, and am coming back randomly without one so I could understand why whoevers in charge could say no.
The reason I was gone for long is something that is rare enough that if I spoke on it it could potential dox me. Wasn't anything bad, but it did eat up a lot of my time from last year onto now. I'm still not even sold on if I'd even come back, or what I'd sell, but was curious on whats actually going on compared to this time last year.
Telegram is great but the lack of barrier to entry means you have to deal with a lot of dumbasses but most ppl are willing to learn how to use btc and PGP their address.
Im not yet on telegram, but there seems to be alot of activity on the "stoned Ilumanati" chat which mostly lists vendors from Cannahome and a few others who are trusted.
I can certainly understand why vendors are currently choosing telegram, and might sign up soon. Seems many former CH vendors are exclusively on telegram. Reasons probably include markets exiting every 3 months, no vendor fees, no missing withdrawals, no limits to photos/videos.
With dread being down for 3 months recently and also down alot due to ddos and other reasons, telegram has turned into a forum somewhat also.
Further while concentrates have bottomed for trim run/crc to 1k a pound there is still a void online for nug run, high end trim run, or small/larf run slabs that could go for 250/oz and 4k a pound. This is what TSE was vending and the price points, and what you had at one point I believe
The dark web supply for weed is a shell of itself, compared to this time last year when cannahome was just about to shut. If you look at transaction levels, I believe top vendors on cannahome were doing around 25,000 per year. The top cannabis vendor on bohemia, last time I checked, is williamshattner, with about 2,500 transactions.
All vendors have a Telegram presence now. Every vendor who said they wouldn't go on Telegram, are now on Telegram now. Some vendors have between 2,000 - 4,000 subscribers. That's really the only visible metric. You can't see transaction levels or buyer feedback on TG and vendors get paid up front. It's working out great for vendors.
I personally order about a hp - p of flower every month. The quality and consistency of flower supplied from the dark web has gotten worse since last year. I know one single source grower who sells very high quality craft flower exclusively on the dark web. Everything else is commercial weed, oversupply from cali, hit or miss on quality.
I would welcome any new flower vendor, serving wholesale clients for high quality buds.
The DNM has always been that way. Its a place to source cheap product, but its generally all cut, pressed, or poorly made products that can't be realisticlly passed off anywhere else. Nobody in local states would ever take PGR weed, some of these 5$ "carts", premature flower caked with powdery mildew etc, so it gets moved here. Thats always been the case, and will always be the case. As the weed market has gotten more and more competitve, its lowered the price/quality down to where it is now.
But with that said, a lot of growers have closed up. You pretty much just have asian/mexican source who control like 90% of the market. They arent known for quality control, so as long as the prices stay where they are, the quality will stay where it is. No new growers are going to drop 200k to setup shop to grow 500 dollar lbs.
I think youll like that dr reffer sources from a different location than most vendors. The DNM quality has always been what you are describing, but if a vendor can get better numbers in town then it is not going on the DNM. That is likely why you have seen a decrease in quality
I actually checked it out, looked pretty dead. I signed up just a burner buyer account and didnt see much going on. A lot of vendors on there didnt appear active either. But maybe it'll grow again
As for making my own concetrates, not anymore. I still have the equipment stored to do it, but the weed market got the worst its ever been, and real estate got the best its ever been, so I sold off my lab in September.
If I sold anything anymore, it would likely just be flower. I dont have any confidence in the concentrate market ever recovering enough to be able to survive at the ma and pop level. I kept my equipment just in case, but if I were to able dabble in dabs again it would be just reselling from a larger lab thats just pushing out lb after lb, most likely.