I get all the points you are making from the business perspective they taught when I was in highschool in an elective personal finance class . If you ' ve weighed out the cost of being a small business kratom vendor , you know the start up cost is miniscule , and the profit margin is meager until you move a very large quantity , selling many sub kilo quantities primarily . MS is the biggest vendor I can think of , and by analyzing their model , it ' s easy to see these guys know exactly what they are doing . They cut all the right corners , appear and conduct themselves professionally , have a very nice userfriendly website , and you can bet your ass they important so fucking much they get a better deal than 99 . 999999 % of the entire industry . Were talking a few very large ecosystems are symbiotic with their leaf sales . This isn ' t just supply and demand or overhead vs profit margin it ' s about business ethics . Anyone who deflects this is out of touch or just oblivious of the insane mark up and why it ' s unfair to newer usersLike I said before when someone charges $ 300 for an epipen , it ' s wrong . When they charge $ 180 for a prescription of antibiotics that cost $ 11 to produce , it ' s wrong . When they charge 4 x as much for chemo treatment in the US than in other countries , it ' s wrong . So why , when they charge a 1000 % mark up on kratom is it ok ? Assuming they get it for $ 40 a kg , which they probably get it for about half that , and they were charging $ 400 per kg it ' s fucking wrong , and unless you are sociopath , it ' s hard to not empathize with people being stripped of their wealth for outrageous medical care price gouging . Kratom is in a grey area , but some people use it to maintain a healthy routine and its a fucking leaf of a plant that grows all over the fucking place in Indonesia . It ' s just plain fucking wrong .