SprinklerVibes said:
Wow.. Those Aus prices keep shocking me. Do you have a lower value $, is the average wage higher or is it really as expensive as it sounds? What's the minimum wage in Aus?
Does it really cost that much to import those drugs across the water, or are there only a few big players that dominate the market and set the prices? Maybe because of harsh penalties?
Aye. The prices here are ludicrous, but the quality is pretty much almost always really good (barring cocaine and sometimes in the past the Heroin isn't up to scratch, but it's quality is on the increase at the moment, like...significantly).
Our Ecstasy pills that hit the streets, well in my experience anyways, are almost always MDMA, nothing but MDMA (with the exception of binders and fillers) and on average seem to be upwards of 100mg MDxA content.
Presumably, most often than not imported in from European countries, so it has alot of hands and trouble to go through before it hits the clubs of Melbourne or Sydney (and other states).
As for, as to why our prices are so ridiculously high, well I'd say it has something to do with us being an island and having extremely tight customs and border control. I've heard we have some of the most tightest in the world, so obviously the distributors on the higher end of the chain, or the people that are responsible for 'transporting' the drugs to over here, are going to charge a pretty hefty surcharge for the hassle.
Also, the fact that our country isn't anywhere near as heavily populated as United Kingdom, or The United States means that the demand isn't as great, therefore not being as much bulk as say, what there would be in America, etc...
And our Heroin and Cocaine aren't manafactured and processed, merely a stone's throw over the border so, yeh... it would be much harder to smuggle in mass volumes I'd think.
Our Heroin comes from South East Asia ("golden triangle" region, aka: Burma, Myannmar, Vietnam.) and while it's not so far, it still gets passed through many hands before it reaches our shoreline.
Same deal as coke, which is manafactured on the other corner of the globe from where we are.
Sorry, went off on a tangent there.
Melbourne, Australia:
Cocaine: 1.5g $420.00, 3.0g $700.00 (last time I checked which was a while ago.)
Heroin: 0.1g (or one point)- $35-$50. ($35 rocks seem to be significantly smaller than the $50's but they're still passed off as "points" or "caps")
Half gram- $200.00 (usually comes in one or two solid rocks)
1 Gram: $350.00 (one solid rock, pungent vinegar smell lately.)
1.7 Gram(s): $520.00 (one solid rock with excess powder on the bottom, powder usually chucked in as a freeby or sample)
3.5 grams: $800.00-900.00
Quarter ounce/7.3 grams: $1,400.00-$1,600
Crystallized Methamphetamine in nice clear shards: $150.00 half a gram, $270.00 1 gram.
Brown "gunk" (meth), $120.00 half gram, $200.00 gram. (I hate this stuff, it leaves a messy scattered high for some reason, has a strange taste when smoked and burns up too quick)
Powderised Meth/speed/"louey"/goey: $20-30 a point.
MDMA pills/tablets: $25-$35 if singles. $200 a 10 pack (last time I bought one was about a year ago)
GHB: $2.00/ml if bought over 60ml. Obviously, the more you buy, the more it tends to go down.