Memphis, the difference here is that the dealers are more than willing to meet with new customers, and are usually sick of the middleman who is alway changing the amount of cash they are saying they have on them, and changing the time since they are working on rides, and asking for fronts, etc. As to the "those of u bitching about middlemen grow a pair and get a connect," well we have connects. We were just talking about how our old middlemen will call us up trying to get our connects for free, after they used to middle us for a while and never gave up their connect. They are the last to give up a connect to you, and the first to ask you for your connect. Shameless shit IMO.
Also, my connect pays me for good clients I give him, so instead of going through the bullshit of middlemanning and getting free bags at the expense of others, I just hand over the connect and get free bags at the expense of the dealer. I would only set him up with people that I trusted that wouldn't fuck him over, and he knew all the people I introduced to him were good money. Even when I was 8 hours away at school he would hit me up to see if I knew of anybody dope fiends that might need a new connect, and the couple times I set him up with a new client he wired me money after a month of them buying steady from him. Then when I would come home he would always toss me bags for free.
Basically I agree with Verso that if you never rip people off, and take care of those that take care of you, then you really can't put a price on the good reputation you get from doing that. And if you want to get high and don't have the money for it, then grow some balls and become a real dealer instead of middlemanning mufuckiz.