How old are you if you don't mind me asking?
When I first started taking pills regularly I paid £10 a pop at the Arches in Glasgow.........and that was 1999!
As the years went on, £5 per pill in a club was considered a good deal.
It's actually only been the past few years that pills went down to 3 for £10 in clubs (and I'm talking about proper pills before all this pip shit, 25 pills for £1.27)
I don't think it's setting any sort of precedent at all, it's simple market forces.
This is a seller's market. People will pay a premium for a good pill.
If this drought eases, so does the premium.
If someone offered me 3 facebooks for £10 in a club at the moment I wouldn't even look at them, because kids punting in clubs just aren't getting them from their dealers cheap enough yet.
We will either see two things happen I reckon:
MDxx is more readily available on the global market and decent pills gradually pour back in, with the price dropping over the next 12-24 months; or
this is a fairly short lived boom, and rather than see supplies dry up in clubs, you won't be able to walk without knocking over a stack of pip filled facebooks on sale in bargain buckets for 12p each, with people still swallowing them based on their once great reputation a year ago
i still laugh when I hear people my age get excited when they buy a Dove or a Mitzi, as if it's the same fucking pill from back in the 1990's!!!!
brand power of pills is absolutely unreal, it's the only "certificate of authenticity" you think you can rely on and base how good your night will be on the scratchings on the top of a pill my gran could have knocked together in her bathroom
Ah, I do love it though