Hey Dazed, I'm past the point of bitching about low prices. Mostly since I'm sitting on the sidelines right now I have no right to. So i won't say DAMN 2350 a pound for organic, that's shady low! I suppose right now that's not totally crazy, but what is crazy is the "consignment/front" bullshit. The way I see it, if a club doesn't have cash on hand to buy pounds when they are doubling their money on every pound they are either greedy, or not run very well and in that case you should not rely on them to pay you. That's just stupid, wanting to let 350 bucks ride if they can come up with 2000 why not 2350?
Charging 100 bucks or any amount for "testing" is some total bullshit. I don't think many places have qualified evaluators/testers on site. That should be standard, having a buyer who can evaluate product as a full time employee. When I was selling it seemed there was only one or two days a week they had someone there. It is easy to evaluate for overfertilized or moldy bud. One place I knew of had an endoscope with magnifier that made each bud two feet wide on a big screen monitor and you could see mold spores from across the room. With the lowball prices going on I think the club can damn well pay to test samples if that is really what they want to do.