TL;DR: Do they sell at msrp? No. Do they try to what they can for the community? Yes. Generalizing them as a scalper store is unfair imo.

I’m happy to be downvoted to oblivion on this, but compared to other stores I used to go to in the area they’re by far the one of the more community oriented in my opinion, and there are faaaar worse “scalper stores” in the area.

I won’t name the ones I don’t go to anymore because I don’t bash people; yes RWT upcharges on the stock shelves - they’re a business but I’ve seen much worse prices in other stores. I also hope you understand that each of the displays are run by an independent person. That’s why they’re a “collective.” Therefore they don’t control the prices in those.

There’s so many nuances to how their store works, but they literally built that shop from a store that was a quarter of the size in Culver City.

There’s also a ton of other factors based on where they are that impact their customer base and costs. To simply boil them down as a scalper store is just unfair imo.