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Reporting scam vendors — what worked for you?

BrianDallas92 Wed, Feb 18, 2026 at 11:16 AM 23 replies 953 viewsPage 1 of 5
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Feb 18, 2026 at 11:16 AM#1

Read the primary source rather than the write-up and the two do not agree, so here is what is actually in it.

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.

Where I think it is weakest: the completion rate deserves as much attention as the headline, because a large effect among those who finished is a different claim from a large effect among those enrolled.

What I am after is how people are distinguishing a supplier having a bad batch from a supplier on the way out. I have searched first, so if this is covered somewhere point me at it and I will read it.

Note on sourcing:
Figures above are from the primary publication rather than the press summary. If a number here disagrees with one you have, post yours and we will work out which of us is reading a secondary source.
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Feb 18, 2026 at 11:36 AM#2
BrianDallas92 said:
The useful checklist is about verifiability rather than presentation.

No disagreement with BrianDallas92. One condition attached. Prices dramatically below market are the strongest single signal, and the reason is arithmetic rather than suspicion. Synthesis, testing, and cold-chain shipping have floors. A price well under the floor means something was skipped, and the two things that get skipped are testing and content.

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Feb 18, 2026 at 11:56 AM#3
BrianDallas92 said:
The useful checklist is about verifiability rather than presentation.

I disagree that testing history is decisive. It tells you what a supplier did when they were being watched. Continuity of behaviour under stress — a late shipment, a failed test, a complaint — is more predictive than any run of good results.

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Feb 18, 2026 at 12:16 PM#4

This one has a reasonably settled answer, so here it is. The pattern that distinguishes a bad batch from an exit is behaviour rather than product. A bad batch comes with communication, a reshipment offer and a batch number. An exit comes with slower replies, pressure toward less reversible payment methods, sudden discounting, and the same reassurance repeated without any new information. The product tells you less than the correspondence does.

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Feb 18, 2026 at 2:05 PM#5
PharmacoVig_BOS said:
Prices dramatically below market are the strongest single signal, and the reason is arithmetic rather than suspicion.

Second this. The detail I would add is minor and it is already implied above.

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