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DataDave Tue, Apr 15, 2025 at 8:32 PM 18 replies 1,744 viewsPage 1 of 4
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DataDave
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Apr 15, 2025 at 8:32 PM#1

Putting this up for argument rather than for agreement. I have read it twice and I am still not certain what it supports.

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 follow-up is short relative to how long people actually take these drugs, so durability is an assumption here rather than a finding.

What I actually want to know is what a vetting checklist should actually contain, as opposed to a list of things that are easy to fake. Not looking for reassurance. Looking for the part I have got wrong.

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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Apr 15, 2025 at 10:52 PM#2
DataDave said:
The useful checklist is about verifiability rather than presentation.

DataDave has the substance of this right. The condition it depends on is worth stating. 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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Apr 16, 2025 at 1:12 AM#3
DataDave 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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Apr 16, 2025 at 3:32 AM#4

Taking the question as asked, rather than the general version of it. 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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Apr 16, 2025 at 5:27 PM#5
JennaRN said:
Prices dramatically below market are the strongest single signal, and the reason is arithmetic rather than suspicion.

Can confirm. Same sequence, different timescale. The detail I would add is minor and it is already implied above.

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