- Powerful Tool -

The review system on LB is one of the powerful tools LB gives us consumers. A bad product or vendor has a short life on LB because of the reviews and ratings system as well as being able to create topics like this. Its one of the ways in which vendors are held accountable for their products and services.

- Share Your Experience -

We have the power to share our product knowledge and experience of vendors to help steer other LB purchases. I've seen bad products removed pretty fast off the back of the community response. Equally I've seen people rush to buy vendor products driven by positive content here.

- No Guidelines -

However, there's not a set way to do reviews so we all make it up as we go along. This leaves a mixed quality and lots of discussions around what is correct.

I review the overall deal - product, value, stealth & service. I'm likely to give a ten assuming everything went well and the weed matches the photo and description as well as being good value for the price paid. I start dropping points off for poor quality, delays, mistakes etc.

How do you do yours?

- We Have a Voice -

Looking at new vendors as a way of estimating review rates, it looks like a fairly small number of people write reviews - maybe 25%. I'd be interested if anyone has any accurate numbers around this in case I've got it completely wrong. It's a shame though as in many aspects of life we don't have a voice. We do here.

- Mixed Quality -

While many reviews here are great and contribute to the lb community, there's some reviews which are not nearly as useful.

This is a discussion so please chime in if you believe I'm wrong about any of these or have something to add. I have rewritten the below reviews as examples of the bad review genre so as not to directly quote anyone's actual review. It's not a witch hunt. This isn't aimed at anyone personally but is a discussion about writing reviews that will benefit everyone.

- Review Examples That Could Improve -

Top of the list of course is:
"I haven't tried it yet. 10/10."

- Unless you're Nostradamus maybe wait til you do try it. It could be an 8 or lower by then. I've had weed that looked and smelled just right from my favourite vendors but was so-so to smoke. I've also had iffy batches of stuff I'd ordered previously. Proof is in the pudding. Also writing a review closes the dispute window so if the product has a problem you'll have to jump through more hoops to open a dispute after reviewing it.

Next are this type:
"Amazing. So stoned. Huge glistening purple buds. Overweight. Pure white smoke. Perfect oil ring. Probably the best weed I've ever had. And they sent me a freebie too. 6/10."

- I get it. You're difficult to please. High standards are good and you want to leave some ranking margin at the top for better stuff. Or maybe there was another issue like stealth or delivery time that you marked down from a ten. It'd be good to the reasoning for marking down here.

The one and done:
"1/10"

- If it's a 1 out of 10 we need to know why, especially on a product page of 10s. What went wrong for you - give us the heads up. Tell us your story.

That's also because of these:
"Terps and stone amazing. Incredible stuff. I'm ordering this again. 1/10"

- Clearly a mistake and likely a mix up on delivery time and rating or fat fingering the zero on a ten. I wonder how many one and done reviews had meant to leave it as a positive.

Expecting miracles:
"Ordered on Christmas eve next day delivery but it took 3 days to arrive. Weed was good though. 2/10"

- Set your expectations to realistic. The only person who delivers that fast at Christmas is Santa. And then only if you've been good. Have you? I fully understand the disappointment. Rolling papers at the ready and the postman walks straight past to your neighbours. We've all been there. At time of writing this, I am there now. But before you leave a low score do question, was this the vendors fault, or royal mail.

New vendor first reviews:
"Great. 7/10"

- You're the bold adventurer to roll the dice and place an order with a new vendor and we need to know more about how they operate. Stealth, delivery, product, communication. How did they do? Should we all drop everything and order here immediately? Spending a few mins here helps out the buyers and the vendor. Often new vendors have some great bargains but do we want to risk it - you know the answers.

On a multi product listing:
"It was amazing. 10/10"

- Which of the options did you buy? Often naming the product is unnecessary but on multi product or multi variant listings it's a useful habit that helps us know which are the good options and which to avoid - rather than blanketing multiple differing products with the same rating. Your 10/10 may have sold out days ago.

- My Ideal Review -

"[Product name] was a great example of the strain with strong [flavour] taste and strength. Big nugs. Perfectly cured. Thoughtful stealth and fast delivery. Vendor is awesome, I order here all the time. 10/10"

- Here we're ticking off the key points that make us trust the product listing and the vendor. Equally, if any of these points fall short then flag it up to the LB community. There's a thousand products here so give us a steer. If you read reviews to inform your own choices then please equally contribute by reviewing the products you buy. Your opinion counts.

- Negative Reviews -

Of course not all reviews are positive and where the value, weed, vendor, service or stealth is not up to scratch, that's the point where constructively explaining that to your fellow buyers in the reviews helps the whole community.

Negative reviews can have a powerful impact and help us make good choices about where to spend our coins. Give the vendors a chance to achieve their ten but if they're not up to the job in hand or you've had a terrible experience then sharing it helps us all.

- We Are Lucky -

Basically we're a bunch of lucky folk buying great quality cannabis products at decent prices with our payments protected by escrow.

Spending a few mins and doing our bit on the reviews helps the community thrive and the good products fly - as does creating or interacting with topics and recommendations. Equally steering us around poor service helps us avoid the problems you have had. It's these things that make LB more than just a marketplace but make it our community.

- Thanks -

As always thanks for reading my topic. I hope it was informative and if not I hope it was entertaining in some way. Please upvote this topic if you like reading this stuff as it really helps to share it and get involved in the comments to let us know how you do your reviews.

Searching for a vendor that sells small sizes of bud (not particularly bothered what it is). Looking for 1–2g as only want it for the weekend—trying to be good! Anyone know of anything? Thanks all

I've been an exclusive loyal buyer from The Green Team for several years and always been happy with the products and service etc.
I ordered two 3.5g of 2 different products last week and was very happy with receiving within 2 days but Unfortunately there was only one item inside. One 3.5g was absent in the package.
These things can happen and in the past TGT have been very good with re-sending deliveries that haven't arrived but in this particular case I have had ZERO response from TGT to the 5 messages I've sent on the subject despite it showing that they have been active messaging within the last 5 minutes.
I am now really unhappy with the disappointing lack of response from THE GREEN TEAM who up until now have been my Go-To vendor.
I know I have the option to dispute after 9/10 days undelivered but the lack of communication is really putting me off considering TGT for my next order.
If you're out there GREEN TEAM, please respond!!

Evening all,

Found recently that weed has stopped doing anything for me. Feel briefly stoned whilst I’m smoking and then nothing normal again. I don’t know if it’s the quality of the weed or if my tolerance has become too high. Purely smoke now because I feel less agitated but in terms of feeling “stoned” just doesn’t happen. Anyone else experience anything similar? I generally don’t even smoke that much probably a gram a day.

🎁🍯 A Bargain

Whoever made this review please respond to this post…

I shouldn’t really be responding to this but claiming it’s CBD and then comparing the hash to something you’ve seen on internet it’s infuriating. I even looked at this website and there’s no PK hash on there so what’s the comparison?

I’ve added some photos you can clearly see it has been shipped inside a coffee bag decoy. Now would someone go through all that effort just to ship some CBD hash?

It comes in Kgs split into “sheets” of 180g - 200g

I do admit it’s not the strongest pk/charas hash but it’s very good quality and I haven’t seen stuff like this in UK for ages.

I feel like way to many people think there experts these days you need to calm down just because you heard someone talking about mixing distillate with hash doesn't mean your the expert now. Most vendors know all of these shady tactics people are doing to hash it’s no secret.

From my experience hash mixed with distillate always is a little bit “wet” and leaves residue on the packaging it’s pretty easy spot. And it also tends to burn unnaturally violent when under a flame.

Until this it has over 100 reviews average 9.8 so to be honest your opinion is invalid.

I really can’t be bothered with the drama just wanted to respond to this and attach some pictures and extra information so people have a better understanding what they’re buying.

- The Dirty Grinder Problem -

My grinder is a few years old. It's a metal one that screws together in separate layers for grinding, ground, and kief. It has never been meaningfully cleaned. I've poked and chipped at it a bit when it got stuck. The kief catcher has been blocked for ages although I was never sure I wanted my kief caught in anything other than what I'm currently smoking in the first place. Its become more of a masher than a grinder as compacted dark resin coats much of its once sharp teeth.

- New Grinder Dreams -

I was thinking of buying a new grinder when I decided I should probably clean the current one up first to see how much that helped. One of the grinder teeth snapped off years ago and it actually really improves how the grinder works. That gap is where your bit of weed starts. If I made grinders I'd engineer a weed gap something like this in. If I bought a new grinder I'd be tempted to break a tooth off. I'm sure several people will tell me why I'm wrong about this but it's a hill I shall die on.

- I Need Alcohol -

So first thing I reached for was our good friend alcohol. That age old tale like it's the solution to all of life's problems - but it quickly became clear that poking a bit of alcohol around was inadequate for this.

Obviously more alcohol was needed. That age old tale...So the whole grinder went in for an iso bath. Cleaning it with a sacrificial toothbrush after a good soak brought it back to factory levels of cleanliness pretty quickly with all that compacted resin dissolved into the alcohol. But it had one flaw. It was now a super sticky solution. A film of glue-like stickiness had settled across every surface of the grinder. After you touched it, the same is true for you. We are back in sticky Spiderman fingers territory. More wiping with alcohol didn't seem to clean it so much as smear it onto more surfaces.

- Saving New York -

So before I started using my sticky fingers to climb buildings and save New York City from crime, I went for possibly not the best solution, but for the one within the easiest reach of my Spidey fingers. Cif cream cleaner.

- The Lemon Problem -

This dispersed the stickiness with ease using the same ex-toothbrush. I think it more thoroughly cleaned the grinder too. The problem now wasn't stickiness, it was lemonness. And not the nice lemonness one might have in their grinder. The bad lemonness that you don't want. It'd be like smoking a yellow block from a urinal if I put weed through it.

- The Wet Problem -

After some more rinsing and cleansing the problem was no longer lemonness. It was wetness. The kief mesh and the many nooks and crannies hide water away. This was a better problem to have but still a problem. After much careful patting and some hairdryering I decided some resting time was needed for full dryness.

- The Outcome -

A while later I tried it out and it's essentially like a new grinder. It twists super smoothly with ease, evenly grinding buds into useful little pieces and once more my kief is being caught.

- Kief or Thief -

Although I'm still questioning if saving kief is better than having it now. Is it robbing me under the guise of future reward? Like daylight savings when the clocks change back. We don't ever get an extra hour in bed. Merely what was once already ours has been returned. If someone stole a tenner out of your wallet in spring then gave it back to you in Autumn you would not thank them for it. So is it a kief catcher a kief thief? I'm intrigued to know people's thoughts on this one.

- New And Improved -

The grinder basically works like new but with the added toothless gap that seems to improve function for me anyway and feels like a design feature. It's my hill - my hill folks.

- Fresh and Clean -

It may not be completely radical news to many people out there but cleaning stuff makes it better. My grinds are now fresher than a brand new pair of underpants.

- Thanks -

As always thanks for reading, I hope it was informative and if not I hope it was entertaining in some way at least.

Please upvote the post of you like reading this stuff and get involved in the comments to let me know how or if you clean your grinder - or what the cool kids use to grind with these days - and whether it's a kief or thief device? Thanks.

Can I get your recommendation for your strongest knockout strains