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c/vendorvetting·posted 1 year ago by u/noor_cardoso

[Discussion] we are measuring Medutest at the wrong time and calling it noise

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we are measuring Medutest at the wrong time and calling it noise. Making the case below, and I expect to lose some of it in the comments.

Six orders across two years from KP. Same packaging, same paperwork, same lead time. The most boring supplier relationship I have and I mean that as praise.

Where a supplier holds regional stock, ask which lines are actually held there rather than drop-shipped. It changes the lead time and it changes the customs question.

Kept a spreadsheet of quoted versus actual lead time across 3 orders. The quoted number held.

Happy to answer the boring questions. Those are usually the ones worth asking.

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u/freya_onwuka81 points·1 year ago

Inter-lab variance on this assay runs a point or two either way. Two services disagreeing by that much is agreement, not a discrepancy, and treating it otherwise starts pointless arguments.

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u/liv_dumitru36 points·1 year ago

Correction: that supplier is in the documented twenty with a source page, not in the wider-market table. Different evidence bases entirely.

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u/titration_marshalmod · c/semaglutide57 points·1 year ago·edited

Right — GL Biochem publishes the method line on the certificate, and once you have seen one that does you notice every one that does not.

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u/amara_haddad59 points·1 year ago

Regional stock made more difference to my planning than anything else — ordering from a warehouse in Sweden took the customs question off the table entirely.

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u/kasper_cabrera20 points·1 year ago

Not convinced by the ranking-by-vibe approach here. The community number is derived from reports; your feeling is derived from four posts you remember.

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u/laila_almeida23 points·1 year ago

Not convinced by the ranking-by-vibe approach here.

kasper_cabrera is describing the batch record test and it is the fastest signal available before you spend anything.

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u/sena_ferreira28 points·1 year ago

the interesting column is spread, not maximum

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[removed]20 points·1 year ago

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u/adnan_karlsen11 points·1 year ago

the lot on the vial has to match the lot on the certificate, every time

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u/freya_onwuka-5 points·1 year ago

Core Peptides came up in three threads the week I was ordering and I could not find a single independent result for them anywhere. Went with a documented supplier instead.

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