Fresh roasted coffee for sale

[coffeeseven]

I've started roasting again. My current offering is a Columbian Supremo Dark Arabica mixed with a Vietnamese Fair Trade Robusta. It's really good for those that like a strong coffee with notes of chocolate, acidic, with great middle notes and a woodsy finish.

$7.00 8 oz (Half Pound)
$11.00 16 oz (Full Pound)

Free shipping. Avg. 3 day delivery.

Cash, blank money order or Liberty Dollars to:

c/o PO Box 306
Rockford, IL 61105
815-997-6310

Paypal to coffeeseven@hotmail.com

[Insurgent]

Do you want to post payment details as well?

[coffeeseven]

Do you want to post payment details as well?

Done

[Insurgent]

I've placed an order for 1/2lb--looking forward to brewing it up!

[coffeeseven]

I've placed an order for 1/2lb--looking forward to brewing it up!

I'm roasting a fresh half now. It'll be in tomorrow's mail.

[Braddogg]

Aw, you had me until I reread the post and saw you were using "Fair Trade" coffee.  I'm morally opposed to "fair trade."

[coffeeseven]

Aw, you had me until I reread the post and saw you were using "Fair Trade" coffee.  I'm morally opposed to "fair trade."

I've never heard anyone say that. Can you tell me why you are morally opposed to fair trade?

[mappchik]

"Fair Trade" is a marketing gimmick. It allows the marketer to pay an extra few cents to the poor farmers & craftsmen, and charge their customers a few extra dollars. The farmers make an above average price for their product, and yuppies/greenies/other get to feel good about their choice.
Plus, we get a good chuckle at the anti-capitalists who don't even realize that this "fair trade" option wouldn't exist without capitalism.

(yes, I did lift this directly from my post on the FTL BBS on fair trade & libertarianism)

http://bbs.freetalklive.com/index.php?topic=12128.0

[Tom Sawyer]

Good article on the subject.
Disincentives for the farmer to improve their product. Anti-free market in a nutshell.

Absolution in Your Cup
The real meaning of Fair Trade coffee.
Reason
Kerry Howley | March 2006 Print Edition

[Russell Kanning]

"Fair Trade" is a marketing gimmick. It allows the marketer to pay an extra few cents to the poor farmers & craftsmen, and charge their customers a few extra dollars.

But in this case .... coffee7 isn't charging any more .... and we can all be happy.

[Russell Kanning]

I sometimes call our salsa "libertarian salsa" ... and people think that I am not a libertarian so they give me a hard time.
Or sometimes I call it Shire Salsa .... Some neocons call it "Freedom Salsa"

Caleb makes fun of my buying stuff from walmart ... when I get new shoes or a shirt ... I feel glad that I am giving a poor kid in malaysia a few bucks.

[coffeeseven]

I'll be looking forward to some of that salsa when I get to NH. You don't get your veggies at WalMart do you? I'm allergic to Malaysian tomatoes. 

[Russell Kanning]

no veggies at our walmart .... I can only dream.

Kat has been buying really nice still on the vine tomatoes this winter .... that might be the secret.

[Braddogg]

Aw, you had me until I reread the post and saw you were using "Fair Trade" coffee.  I'm morally opposed to "fair trade."

I've never heard anyone say that. Can you tell me why you are morally opposed to fair trade?

It's not an obvious objection at all.  I used to be very pro-fair-trade.  But, there's an economic principle behind this.  I think I read about it in The Economist a few months ago.  The argument goes a little something like this.  The price for coffee is low; too low for it to sustain the farmers.  The Law of Supply says that as supply increases, price decreases.  So, there is too much coffee being grown.  Usually, low prices due to high supply is an economic signal for some of these farmers to diversify -- that is, to stop growing coffee and do something more productive (something that people are willing to pay for).

Fair Trade keeps the poor impoverished.

[Braddogg]

If lazy Americans were responsible to handpick any commodity it would be 100X the price. 

Could you rephrase that?  I'm having trouble understanding what you're trying to say.