Catch-22
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Let’s be honest here – buying drugs is a risky business as the best of times. If you don’t get arrested whilst trying to do it, you still have the risk of being ripped off by an unscrupulous drug dealer. Being sold short, or low quality is just one of the risks that you have to accept for as long as substance use remains against the law. But there is a way to take that risk to a new, more dangerous level – by buying drugs in nightclubs.
Drug dealers the world over all work on one basic premise. Profit. Dealers cover a broad spectrum of people, and are not necessarily the “scum of the earth” type of character that the anti-drug propaganda would have you believe. But they are all in the drug selling game for one reason, and that is to make money. And just like any other, more legitimate, business out there, they are looking to maximise the profit they make wherever possible.
Just like all other money making ventures, there are two basic ways to increase your profit. You can either cut your costs, or increase your revenue. And if you are a drug dealer looking to cut your costs, what better way than buying some cheap crap mish-mash of ingredients for half the cost of real drugs, and then selling them off as ecstasy? Well, this would work fine, except that one single batch is about all you’ll sell, until someone takes a couple and dies. Shortly afterward, you’ll have a crowd of very unhappy customers beating down your door to either demand a refund, or wreak vengeance.
Fortunately for the club dealer, this is not such a problem. Think about it – it’s half past one in the morning, you’ve already had a pill a few hours ago, and to be honest all the faces in the club are getting a bit blurry and unrecognisable anyway. You are a prime target for buying what is hopefully pure bunk, but could very well be a dangerous substance to take, particularly in combination with the genuine ecstasy that you might have eaten earlier. The club dealer knows that you will very probably not be able to find him again tonight, and once the night is over and he’s long gone, there is no way that his dodgy dealings will ever get back to him. Remembering that profit is pretty much the only factor motivating the dealer, it’s pretty easy to see that the chances of him offering you something other than genuine ecstasy are very high.
But even if he is not selling dodgy pills, even if you get the chance to test the pills he is selling and they are the real deal, it still doesn’t mean that buying drugs from the club dealer is going to make much sense. See, the guy trying to sell the drugs in the club has had to take an added risk in bringing them with him. On top of all the usual risks associated with being a drug dealer, this guy has to try and peddle his wares right under the noses of the club security. There is a pretty good chance of him being caught, and either turned over to the police, or “taken care of” in other ways. What this probably means is that compared to the dealer who sits in his house waiting for you to call on him, he has less product to sell. There’s no way he can carry hundreds and hundreds of pills, so remembering back to our basic premise that dealers like to make profit – if he’s got less pills to sell then he has to sell them at a higher price each.
So, to sum up your average “club dealer” – his basic motivation for selling drugs is the same as any other dealer, but his operating environment calls for a different approach to making money. Instead of making doing business with him simple, in order to try and attract repeat business, he has to try and make as much profit per sale as possible. This means either cutting costs, resulting in a low quality, and possibly dangerous product, or raising prices, meaning a more expensive pill for you.
Either way – I know I would personally much rather purchase my substances from a regular drug dealer, before I go to a club. At least I know I’ve got some small protection from being ripped off, as opposed to if I buy my drugs from the dealer in the club.
Drug dealers the world over all work on one basic premise. Profit. Dealers cover a broad spectrum of people, and are not necessarily the “scum of the earth” type of character that the anti-drug propaganda would have you believe. But they are all in the drug selling game for one reason, and that is to make money. And just like any other, more legitimate, business out there, they are looking to maximise the profit they make wherever possible.
Just like all other money making ventures, there are two basic ways to increase your profit. You can either cut your costs, or increase your revenue. And if you are a drug dealer looking to cut your costs, what better way than buying some cheap crap mish-mash of ingredients for half the cost of real drugs, and then selling them off as ecstasy? Well, this would work fine, except that one single batch is about all you’ll sell, until someone takes a couple and dies. Shortly afterward, you’ll have a crowd of very unhappy customers beating down your door to either demand a refund, or wreak vengeance.
Fortunately for the club dealer, this is not such a problem. Think about it – it’s half past one in the morning, you’ve already had a pill a few hours ago, and to be honest all the faces in the club are getting a bit blurry and unrecognisable anyway. You are a prime target for buying what is hopefully pure bunk, but could very well be a dangerous substance to take, particularly in combination with the genuine ecstasy that you might have eaten earlier. The club dealer knows that you will very probably not be able to find him again tonight, and once the night is over and he’s long gone, there is no way that his dodgy dealings will ever get back to him. Remembering that profit is pretty much the only factor motivating the dealer, it’s pretty easy to see that the chances of him offering you something other than genuine ecstasy are very high.
But even if he is not selling dodgy pills, even if you get the chance to test the pills he is selling and they are the real deal, it still doesn’t mean that buying drugs from the club dealer is going to make much sense. See, the guy trying to sell the drugs in the club has had to take an added risk in bringing them with him. On top of all the usual risks associated with being a drug dealer, this guy has to try and peddle his wares right under the noses of the club security. There is a pretty good chance of him being caught, and either turned over to the police, or “taken care of” in other ways. What this probably means is that compared to the dealer who sits in his house waiting for you to call on him, he has less product to sell. There’s no way he can carry hundreds and hundreds of pills, so remembering back to our basic premise that dealers like to make profit – if he’s got less pills to sell then he has to sell them at a higher price each.
So, to sum up your average “club dealer” – his basic motivation for selling drugs is the same as any other dealer, but his operating environment calls for a different approach to making money. Instead of making doing business with him simple, in order to try and attract repeat business, he has to try and make as much profit per sale as possible. This means either cutting costs, resulting in a low quality, and possibly dangerous product, or raising prices, meaning a more expensive pill for you.
Either way – I know I would personally much rather purchase my substances from a regular drug dealer, before I go to a club. At least I know I’ve got some small protection from being ripped off, as opposed to if I buy my drugs from the dealer in the club.
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