If you look at one of the more 'reputable' online shippers of commercial clones, they're getting an average of $175 to $250/clone, and more for rare and obscure stuff.I sent out 2 cuts, well-rooted, of Super Lemon Haze, with 1 cut each of Gogi OG and Ghost Train Haze, (4 cuts total), secured in a custom-fitted wooden box, planting cubes restrained by internal 3/4" x 1" cross-members inside, with the cubes wrapped and taped in industrial food wrap so as not to allow loss of any soilless mix, odoriferous distractions addressed, sealed relatively well, inside a custom-made cardboard box.... for postage; $42.
But that was to a friend in the Lower-48 who's helped me greatly.
Locally I have 2 price brackets for clones, depending on intent of the recipient; Personal grows for stash range from free to $10 or $15. Growers who are intending to grow for $, they pay $20 or so.
Then there's risk of walking into a local post office where the transaction is digitally recorded and kept for 'X' amount of time by the USPS, and the actual postage (no handling charges), and as usual, postage is continuing to rise.
I'd never shipped clones before through the USPS, and it was +20 f. here when they left. They arrived in California, intact, healthy, happy, no injuries and no loss of soilless mix.
I was pleased, as was the recipient!
I've never paid for anything NEAR those prices, but I guess some do.
There was a cut 20+ years ago, available in Valdez, called 'Goo Tooth' or some such. One fellow I spoke with quoted $350.
I hope they liked it, because at that price, I had no intention of finding out.
