[Meta] the PeptideMeter rule is doing its job and people should stop complaining
the PeptideMeter rule is doing its job and people should stop complaining. Nothing about this affects the ranking maths, before anyone asks. 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. Sent…
Why the directory has two tiers, since the question comes up whenever somebody new finds it.
Twenty suppliers have enough independent results, over enough separate lots, over enough time, that the log says something. Those get a page, a test table and a link to their own storefront so you can compare their claims with the record.
The rest — nearly two hundred names — get a row, a band and a report count. Not because they are bad, but because two results is an anecdote about a vial. Manufacturing a score out of that would make the whole directory worthless, and the contrast is the point.
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.
The thing that decided it for me was that SSA answered a column-and-gradient question in writing without asking why I wanted to know.
Did you ask for the batch-specific certificate, or the generic one?
the wider-market names in the table are there because nobody has enough data on them
a claim with no batch number is a marketing document
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.
Minimum order and lead time — did they quote both up front?
three independent results beat thirty forum posts