and if you have more than $500 Cash that cash in a pound you need to look at your cost your time is what some will pay for and if it's time to pay rent
if i went and offered any of my growers 500, even 1000 a LB right now it would be an insult to them....lowball offers get you nowhere, a reputation for showing up, lowballing, and walking away will not make them want to pick up your calls...
you must be connected into a hippy co-op where money doesnt apply, they just want to pay bills and sit around banging drums, so be it..but in the REAL market its a money based economy and simple supply/demand will not yield 500 outdoor packs....
i can get packs for 700-14 but they are mid grade at best and mostly popcorn from last season....anything remotely nice is 1500 bare minimum right now....come sept it will go down again. im well aware there are circles of hippys that have super cheap herb...IM TELLING YOU THIS IS AN ANOMALLY, its not market based pricing where 95% of california growers and brokers operate....i got a few LBs last year at 1000 each that were pretty good, but that only represented maybe 1% of the total amount of weight that year...its an older friend who only grew 6 plants and didnt care about profits and didnt really know the market because he works in other industries and just wanted some beer and gas money...i honestly felt kind of jewish only giving him 1k a pop because they were worth about 14 but he took it...