Objective Point System: Rate the Vendors!

[BallzDeep9]

We're getting ready to publish a new Reddit Vendor List for Spring 2022. Since 2018 The List has been hosted on SAIDIT.net - Saidit not Reddit!

I'd like this Community to help with an Objective Point System, which can be used to "Rate the Vendors". A concept from my days as Horse racing handicapper, and sports bettor - Basically, we form a Power Rating for every vendor, based on each vendor's answer to 10+ Points. Yes or No.

Answer EACH one, Yes or No - Avoid personal judgements! And consider, how a New Buyer would would Rate each Point. Of course, any Vendor List IS mostly about "New Kratomites" since us old experienced veterans don't buy much anymore anyway, lol - This LIST, each Point should also be ordered, from Most important, to Least.

Next Level = would be to assign a Value to each Point. For Example: Do you think, Batch Date & Number on every product - Is More or less important, compared to WAAVE or Credit Card payments ? So maybe Batch numbering would be worth 1.5 points / and Payments would just be 1 point. ALSO - A short List of Negatives could be applied to all vendors. So a highly rated Vendor, with Low Stock for 6 months, could be, dis-qualified ?

* POSITIVE POINTS *

1. - Advertisement Promotion on Double MM
   2- Recent Re-stock confirmed (past 3 months) !!
   3- Known Indo Supplier vouch & confirm Re-stock shipped.
   4- Variety: sells Extract products in stock w/ Lab Tests.
   5- Real Lab Test PDF on website for powder strains.
   6- Batch Date & Number for all kratom powder!
   7- Website works! New buyers can easily place Order.
   8- Multi Payments available: WAAVE plus several P2P.
   8- Color Photo and or Description, for every Batch!
   9- Social Media Group works or Blog w/ Current News.
   10- Recent Positive Vendor Review(s) by known Buyer.

* NEGATIVES *
- Recent Complaint or Negative Report, by known Buyer.
- Very Low Stock / No updates over 6 months.
- Vendor has disappeared / Poor communication.

https://saidit.net/s/KratomVendors/

[herbalhippie]

Interesting idea!

Remember we can't discuss payments in any form in the open forum.

[mivanqua]

I love this idea even though I think we all just use certain vendors we've always used, just cos. New people would benefit from any resource we can give them though, so many choices money can easily be wasted. I went back in time to the earliest 2018 one and was reminded how much I miss Sourced By Masochista. NEVER a bad strain there. I wish I knew what SHE was on to these days.

Great idea Ballz.

[Totomman]

You should get into handicapping again. A old friend from school is on patreon, I looked him up out of curiosity, he has 400 subs at $100 a month, just giving betting advice using statistics.

[MikeEdoessomething]

I love this idea even though I think we all just use certain vendors we've always used, just cos. New people would benefit from any resource we can give them though, so many choices money can easily be wasted. I went back in time to the earliest 2018 one and was reminded how much I miss Sourced By Masochista. NEVER a bad strain there. I wish I knew what SHE was on to these days.

Great idea Ballz.

She was awesome!! Excellent customer service and she carried dozens of vendors products. I ordered from her many, many times. Great way to try varieties of leaf. I always wondered why she closed her business but hope she is happy with whatever she moved on to doing. She was just an overall very sweet person, and I'm also curious what she's up to these days or if she's still in the kratom business at all anymore

I'm kind of surprised her business model of carrying a bunch of vendors leaf has not been done more often. Kind of like a one-stop-shop for all your kratom needs (like some online hemp/cbd/delta-8) online shores that carry dozens and dozens of different brands on one website

[BallzDeep9]

I'm kind of surprised her business model of carrying a bunch of vendors leaf has not been done more often. Kind of like a one-stop-shop for all your kratom needs ...

I do remember Masochista. We communicated but I never did order, She had bought a huge variety of other vendors' like SoCal - and listed them by Strain Color on her website... I think it got to where, she had "Too many Choices" and - most people want to buy, what's Hot and the current FOMO thing - As a result her business failed.

Another vendor, Benni Botanicals, tried that a couple years ago when he first started - He probably realized, bad idea ? . Had several Other Vendor choices on his website, IN addition to his own. Benni STILL has STH and "Beleafer" as Menu choices on his site - with nothing in those lol... I mean, who cares about Beleafer ? Just some dude on Facebook who thought of a catchy name, and declared himself "A Vendor"... absolutely NO evidence that Beleafer's fake strains were any better than anyone else's fake strains, lol -- here's Benni - LINK https://bennibotanicals.com/

A few vendors DO carry "Brand Name" products, mostly Extract - which are sold as Retail store "Brands". Example: Mit-45 - IS a branded Extract. I'm seeing a few vendors, stock some of those - So a Buyer for powder kratom, could also pick-up a Retail extract, at a fair price - dabble in those, without having to mess with head-shops ? That seems like a nice option. A few online kratom vendors - Philly / YLYL - and Wonderland Gardens, are trying that.

IMO, having Variety in stock - IS a Positive point. since Extract products, are NOT imported from Indo.

[Lokey]

I like Beleafer, their kratom worked for me in the beginning much better than many others I tried but their main thing seems to be their CBD/flower business that became so big they separated into two websites, one for flower (.com) and one for kratom (.shop). They claim theirs is all indoor dried so they have the green reds many like and are having a 25% off sale thru 5/23. I do want to snag some red Borneo. STH is selling only their yellow Malay which I found was hit or miss (like most places) but I got it direct from Beleafer even though I buy from STH too and it's pretty good too.

Edited to add, I recently ordered 4 different "strains", a green, a white and 2 reds, and they all look exactly the same. Also they never give dates or batch numbers. I am prefering to be able to tell there's some difference in what I'm purchasing as supposedly different strains or batches.