[VERIFIED] Vendor application thread — apply here

One concrete data point for the thread. Red flags, in rough order of how much they should worry you: no verifiable address, no batch numbers, prices far under market, vendor-commissioned tests only, pressure toward irreversible payment, and shipping with no temperature control.

Correct me if the detail matters more than I have assumed.

Following on from hyun_seoul — and this may be the naive question:

How people are distinguishing a supplier having a bad batch from a supplier on the way out?

PeptideChemSF said:

Red flags, in rough order of how much they should worry you: no verifiable address, no batch numbers, prices far under market, vendor-commissioned…

Adding the part of the answer the thread has not reached. The useful checklist is about verifiability rather than presentation. Independent test results commissioned by buyers rather than by the seller, consistency across multiple batches over time rather than one flattering report, a physical address and a company registration that resolve, batch and lot numbers on the actual labelling, and a shipping practice that matches what the material needs. Everything a good-looking website provides is cheap to fake; none of the items above are.

OP back with an update, since a thread like this is useless without one.

Went back through my own correspondence with an earlier supplier and the warning signs were all there in the replies, weeks before the quality changed. I was reading the product and not the behaviour.

Dr.ReproEndo said:

The useful checklist is about verifiability rather than presentation.

Right, and one flattering data point from a group buy is not consistency. Consistency means separate batches, separately commissioned, over months.