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c/vendorvetting·posted 2 years ago by u/gustav_vermeulen

why does nobody talk about reship

Needs Source Receipts ×3 Cold Box ×1 Well Actually ×2

why does nobody talk about reship — that is what I am asking, and I have already read the wiki twice.

The wider-market rows in the directory carry a band and a report count and nothing else, deliberately. Anything more would be manufacturing precision that the evidence does not support.

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.

Asked TFC for the batch record on a Tuesday and had the full document, batch and method line, before the end of the day. That is the bar now.

Not medical advice, obviously, and nothing here is approved for human use. One person with a spreadsheet.

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u/janoshik_junkieMOD529 points·2 years ago

Removed pending evidence. Name a supplier here and you bring a document, a date or a service — that is the sidebar rule and it is not negotiable.

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u/zeynep_zielinski126 points·2 years ago·edited

Disagree that reviews are worthless. They are worthless when they say "fast shipping A+++". A dated one naming a compound and a document is evidence.

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u/gustav_vermeulenOP-35 points·2 years ago

Disagree that reviews are worthless.

Agreed — and the corollary is that "no data" and "bad data" have to be written differently. The table separates them for exactly that reason.

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u/solene_eriksen1 point·2 years 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/gustav_vermeulenOP78 points·2 years ago

Small fix — the figure you quoted is the claimed purity from the certificate, and the independent result was the higher of the two.

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u/adnan_sandvik19 points·2 years ago·edited

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/britt_zamora321 points·2 years ago

Independent testing is worth more than a supplied certificate for one structural reason: the chain of custody. A member who buys, ships and pays is testing the same thing you would receive.

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u/ruben_brandt239 points·2 years ago

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

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u/dario_petrescu275 points·2 years ago

registration number, then everything else

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u/patient_labslip_log203 points·2 years ago

How many separate lots is that across? One lot tested twice is one data point.

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u/coa_janitormod · c/coa148 points·2 years ago·edited

That reads as a recommendation and the source pages deliberately are not. They are a record you use to make your own decision.

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u/gustav_vermeulenOP61 points·2 years ago

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

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u/marit_sandvik19 points·2 years ago

a claim with no batch number is a marketing document

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u/soren_zamora15 points·2 years ago

I would separate documentation from logistics. A supplier can be excellent at one and ordinary at the other, and averaging them hides it.

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u/sofia_ferreira103 points·2 years ago

the wider-market names in the table are there because nobody has enough data on them

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u/usp_appendixcompendial69 points·2 years ago

A certificate with a purity figure and no method line is not falsifiable. You cannot reproduce it, you cannot check it, and it tells you nothing about how the number was produced.

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u/britt_zamora29 points·2 years ago

Same view. A record you can read beats a rating you cannot inspect, every time.

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u/dario_ibarra44 points·2 years ago

the wider-market names in the table are there because nobody has enough data on them

Would qualify this slightly. Fewer entries means less sampling, and less sampling is not the same as a worse process.

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u/search_before_post28 points·2 years ago

Would qualify this slightly.

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

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u/chidi_roos23 points·2 years ago

consistency across lots beats one spectacular result

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