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Confessions of a Drug Dealer's Delivery Service Guy

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Re: Confessions of a Drug Dealer's Delivery Service Guy

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Post by MichaelGG »

indlebe wrote: post #11
MichaelGG wrote: post #6

>Like most addicts in denial, potheads live under the bogus assumption that every bong hit will be their last. Uh, what? While there may be some people that have hit problems and want to change because their life is being negatively impacted, most "addicts" are quite fine where they are. I personally don't like pot, but I've never known any pothead to keep saying "this will be my last hit" - quite the opposite. Like…

I seriously question the authenticity of this piece, especially the last bit about the pill clients being the more "wealthy ones". Either that or this guy worked the most atypical drug dealing job I've heard of. In a more common situation, clients that are of a more permanant wealth would demand higher quality pot, hashish and perhaps opium. "New Money" may dabble in cocaine but if they're not uber rich or don't keep…

Plenty of high-level professionals use opiates (pills like Oxycontin). Look around for some rather tiny pupils on people doing high-stress, high-paying jobs. Opium tends to make you lay around and usually need to vomit, so I'm not sure why that'd be preferable to [semi]synthetic opiates.

Re: Confessions of a Drug Dealer's Delivery Service Guy

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Post by concerto »

The sales incentives make no sense. He made 1/3rd commission on the smallest bags, 1/5th on the medium and 1/6 on the largest bags. It is better for him to sell lots of small bags than 1 big one. In addition, assuming most customers buy the small bag, then upselling to a medium bag would bring no extra financial reward. Putting aside the idea that buying the biggest bag might lead to faster consumption, and assuming that the customers were tied in to the supplier, he would have been better off downselling as the customers would still buy the same amount, just in more transactions, leading to higher returns for him (especially as his transport costs were paid).

Re: Confessions of a Drug Dealer's Delivery Service Guy

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Post by codyb »

n3rdy wrote: post #9
ugexe wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not to mention he mocks them for not making huge live changing moves during the small time frame that he actually knew them, and that he actually thinks these clients weren't just casually lying to some kid who brings them their weed.

Not to mention he himself took the job out of desperation. He admits he couldn't make a better life choice for himself but acts like he's superior to the people conducting business with him. He also suggests they were spending $60/day on weed.. wouldn't that be at least $1200/month? He had few enough clients that he never saw the same first name twice, so his clients were probably earning more than he did. As easy as…

I think you mathed wrong. 60*30=$1800. More than rent for a 2Br in lots of Brooklyn!

Re: Confessions of a Drug Dealer's Delivery Service Guy

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Post by shocks »

dilap wrote: post #17
MichaelGG wrote: post #6

>Like most addicts in denial, potheads live under the bogus assumption that every bong hit will be their last. Uh, what? While there may be some people that have hit problems and want to change because their life is being negatively impacted, most "addicts" are quite fine where they are. I personally don't like pot, but I've never known any pothead to keep saying "this will be my last hit" - quite the opposite. Like…

They exist. Of course, there are lots of people who are totally happy w/ their consumption, and have no desire to change, and/or if they did have the desire, did so. But people w/ problems really do exist. I've personally known people who wanted to stop smoking, but found it very, very difficult. (I feel like these stories don't get heard as much because there's a popular perception of weed not being a "hard" or a "r…

What does w/ mean?

Re: Confessions of a Drug Dealer's Delivery Service Guy

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Post by pstuart »

shocks wrote: post #25
dilap wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They exist. Of course, there are lots of people who are totally happy w/ their consumption, and have no desire to change, and/or if they did have the desire, did so. But people w/ problems really do exist. I've personally known people who wanted to stop smoking, but found it very, very difficult. (I feel like these stories don't get heard as much because there's a popular perception of weed not being a "hard" or a "r…

What does w/ mean?

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Re: Confessions of a Drug Dealer's Delivery Service Guy

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Post by indlebe »

MichaelGG wrote: post #21
indlebe wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I seriously question the authenticity of this piece, especially the last bit about the pill clients being the more "wealthy ones". Either that or this guy worked the most atypical drug dealing job I've heard of. In a more common situation, clients that are of a more permanant wealth would demand higher quality pot, hashish and perhaps opium. "New Money" may dabble in cocaine but if they're not uber rich or don't keep…

Plenty of high-level professionals use opiates (pills like Oxycontin). Look around for some rather tiny pupils on people doing high-stress, high-paying jobs. Opium tends to make you lay around and usually need to vomit, so I'm not sure why that'd be preferable to [semi]synthetic opiates.

>Plenty of high-level professionals use opiates (pills like Oxycontin)

Perhaps, but I still question the likeliness that the mainstream pot dealer would move to selling pills still distributing from the same source. Pot, cocaine, mdmda, etc are available in bulk from illicit sources. Prescription pills usually come from a legal source at some point and come in smaller quantities. From what I hear opium is more expensive because of the difficulty to transport it in its raw form, and therefore sought after.

Wealthier clients usually have a doctor that will write them the prescriptions for a fee. It's not unfathomable that his dealer also had a line on prescription pills, and he did note that he went dry from time to time but still...

Re: Confessions of a Drug Dealer's Delivery Service Guy

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Post by ChuckMcM »

doktrin wrote: post #2

> At times, I was tempted to hand them back their measly $60 and snatch the pipe from their hands and say, “You don't have to live this way.” That's a lot of condescension coming from the guy who thought he would look like a "suave gangster" while performing door to door pot deliveries.

I suspect that captures the entire article, one would like to walk up to the author and snatch away their laptop bag and say "You don't have to live this way."

And perhaps, at some level that was the point. The lack of self awareness is endemic to all the participants.

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