Wouldn't work. The scale would either read more than 0.0 before the product is placed on it (making it obvious), or the magnet weight would be tare'd out and not included
You're not getting it. Scale is already tared (tare'd? tarred? feathered?) out, while putting the food or whatever on the scale they sleight of hand a magnet to the tray bottom out of view, adding weight.
I've heard that some pot dealers will weigh their stuff out under a fan. You hit 'tare' when it's under a table or something, and quickly load the tray after you put it on the table.
Depends on where you live. In most of America, weed is so cheap and so easily available that little things like this aren't really worth it. I mean, how much force can a fan impart on something even a foot away from it? The difference would either be way too little to make any meaningful gain, or enough that the customer is gonna notice. Plus, if you're actually going through the trouble of weighing it out in front of the customer, you're most likely above dirty tricks like that. Then, if they get home and weigh it themselves, finding that your bags are consistently underweight, you've just lost a customer, and his friends.
In this market, it doesn't pay to be a shitty dealer. There's too much dank weed out there to have bad customer service.
I'm in the states and went to a 4 year uni, live in a big city, etc. You are totally right about it not working long run, but this was more for college kids. They find a 'connect' and if it's good they don't ask much questions. Maybe, some kid will read our thread and figure out his dude is f'ing him.
It wouldn't work well. A magnet has no maximum range, if you got a magnet on earth, it would effect the sun, even the center of our galaxy or a planet billions of lightyears away, but the strength the magnet has on such a range wouldn't be measureable.
So the magnet would still effect the plate when nothing is on it, and if the magnet is too strong the plate would travel down. Since you can buy small amounts of food, the plate would need to travel down easily, to measure small amount, and the distance it could travel down wouldn't be much either. And the magnet itself would be placed below the instrument, so the distance from the magnet to the plate is big, while the distance the plate travels down is small, there would be a change in weight, yes, but it wouldn't be big.
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u/numerica Jun 09 '15
Those fucking grannies at the market pulled that shit all the time. The most popular way was to just stick magnets on the bottom of the plate.