SWB order #6 — Ireland, 13 days, no drama, receipts inside, and I want to be careful to separate what I measured from what I felt. The numbers the title promised, since…
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c/intlshipping + c/customs mod. I maintain the lane table. Do not post tracking numbers.
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comment on help me understand tier 3, I have read the wiki twice in c/glp1uk · 43 points · 4 months ago
The two routes, described separately, because mixing them is where most of the confusion here starts.
The NHS route in England runs through specialist weight management services commissioned by your ICB. Criteria, waiting times and what happens at discharge are all local decisions, which is why a confident answer from somebody in a different area may be wrong for you.
The private route is an independent transaction: a consultation, a prescription and a pharmacy price. It does not affect your position on any NHS list and it is not a shortcut through one. Both are legitimate; they are simply not the same pathway and they do not connect.
comment on [Discussion] the province advice in here is 3 years out of date in c/glp1canada · 38 points · 5 months ago
Province added to the title. Coverage is provincial and the thread could not be answered without it.
comment on [Question] how do you actually verify TGA in c/glp1aus · 3 points · 5 months ago
Country added to the title. Australia and New Zealand answers differ and the thread was unusable without it.
comment on TGA — 24 things I got wrong before I got it right in c/glp1aus · 112 points · 5 months ago
Someone posted US advice in an Australian thread and it took four replies to untangle it. Say your country.
comment on [Discussion] we are measuring PBS at the wrong time and calling it noise in c/glp1aus · 19 points · 6 months ago
Country added to the title. Australia and New Zealand answers differ and the thread was unusable without it.
comment on [Question] Australia — has anyone got a straight answer on tier 3 in c/glp1uk · 30 points · 6 months ago
Discharge from a specialist service at goal is a normal end point of that pathway. Whether prescribing continues in primary care afterwards is a local decision and is worth asking about at the start rather than at the end.
comment on [Discussion] we are measuring PBS at the wrong time and calling it noise in c/glp1aus · 78 points · 6 months ago
The two decisions that this whole board turns on, kept apart.
Registration means a product may lawfully be supplied. Subsidy listing means the public system will fund it, for a defined indication, against published criteria. They are made by different bodies on different timetables, and a product can be registered and unsubsidised for a given use for a long time.
Almost every "why can I not get this" thread here is really a question about the second decision being answered with facts about the first. Say which one you are asking about and the thread resolves in two replies.
comment on [Discussion] we are measuring New Zealand at the wrong time and calling it noise in c/glp1aus · 3 points · 6 months ago
PBS criteria are published and searchable
comment on [Question] how do you actually verify transit time in c/intlshipping · 1 points · 7 months ago
Where did the time actually go — international leg, clearance, or last mile?
comment on [Question] how do you actually verify escrow in c/cryptopay · 90 points · 7 months ago
A test transaction costs one extra network fee and verifies the address, the network and the recipient’s crediting process before the main amount moves.
comment on genuine question about private prescription that I am slightly embarrassed to ask in c/glp1uk · 256 points · 7 months ago
Pharmacy staff name removed. The pharmacy itself can be named in a pricing post.
comment on the Australia thing finally clicked for me and I want to write it down in c/glp1aus · 139 points · 7 months ago
Small fix — that is the New Zealand arrangement, and the question is about Australia.
comment on [Discussion] the lane advice in here is 2 years out of date in c/intlshipping · 269 points · 7 months ago
Left up and added to the lane table. All four required fields were present, which is rarer than it should be.
comment on [Results] 26 weeks on 1.7mg, full numbers, ask me anything boring in c/retatrutide · 631 points · 7 months ago
Standing note on this board: unapproved compound, phase 2 data, and no titration plans for other members. That is the whole ruleset.
comment on customs is the most under-discussed thing on this board in c/customs · 7 points · 7 months ago
Country added to the title. Without it the answers will be confidently wrong.
comment on the regain question that gets asked weekly, answered properly in c/tapering · 0 points · 7 months ago
That is a pause rather than a stop, and the plans for the two are not the same.
comment on [Discussion] can we stop arguing about chargeback until somebody posts a number in c/cryptopay · 21 points · 8 months ago
Keep every transaction hash in a note file with the order reference. It has resolved two queries instantly.
comment on someone explain New Zealand to me like I have not read a paper in years in c/glp1aus · 1 points · 8 months ago
compounded supply arrangements changed and the threads have not caught up
comment on someone explain New Zealand to me like I have not read a paper in years in c/glp1aus · 8 points · 8 months ago
Left up. It links the primary database rather than coverage of it, which is what we ask for.
comment on someone explain New Zealand to me like I have not read a paper in years in c/glp1aus · 5 points · 8 months ago
Cosigning on asking the pharmacy to check the wholesaler. It converts speculation into a fact in one phone call.
comment on [Question] New Zealand — has anyone got a straight answer on shortage in c/glp1aus · 44 points · 8 months ago
Country added to the title. Australia and New Zealand answers differ and the thread was unusable without it.
comment on [Vendor] GL Biochem order #4 — Germany, 12 days, no drama, receipts inside in c/customs · 64 points · 8 months ago
Country added to the title. Without it the answers will be confidently wrong.
comment on [Vendor] GL Biochem order #4 — Germany, 12 days, no drama, receipts inside in c/customs · 204 points · 8 months ago
Agreed. Jurisdiction is the whole answer here and threads that skip it produce confidently wrong advice.
comment on private prescription — 20 things I got wrong before I got it right in c/glp1uk · 8 points · 8 months ago
keep every letter, the dates matter later
comment on the formulary question that gets asked weekly, answered properly in c/glp1canada · 28 points · 9 months ago
Left up. It distinguishes a rejected claim from a denied authorization, which most posts here do not.
comment on three years of declared value threads, summarised so you do not have to read them in c/customs · 261 points · 9 months ago
a seizure notice is a document with a process attached, read it
comment on the lane question that gets asked weekly, answered properly in c/intlshipping · 18 points · 9 months ago
Total transit decomposes into first mile, international leg, clearance and last mile. Only the first two are meaningfully under the shipper’s control and most reported variance sits in the last two.
comment on [Discussion] Canada is doing more work than we give it credit for in c/glp1canada · 30 points · 9 months ago
That is an employer plan process, and the provincial route is different in both form and timeline.
comment on [Question] Spain — has anyone got a straight answer on NHS in c/glp1uk · 28 points · 9 months ago
How long have you been on the list, and from what date?
comment on [Discussion] can we stop arguing about TGA until somebody posts a number in c/glp1aus · 53 points · 10 months ago
Pharmacy staff name removed; the pharmacy itself can stay in a pricing post.
comment on help me understand tapering, I have read the wiki twice in c/tapering · 71 points · 10 months ago
That reads as advice to stop, which is not something anyone here should be offering.
comment on unpopular opinion: most of what gets said here about customs is guesswork in c/customs · 189 points · 10 months ago
Left up. It names both countries and quotes the notice, which is exactly what makes these threads useful.
comment on unpopular opinion: most of what gets said here about TRIUMPH is guesswork in c/retatrutide · 8 points · 10 months ago
heart rate is the thing people report watching
comment on why does nobody talk about pricing in c/glp1uk · 55 points · 11 months ago
Referral link removed and the post left up. No links of any kind here, and that rule is not negotiable.
comment on [Vendor] SWB order #6 — Ireland, 13 days, no drama, receipts inside in c/cryptopay · -11 points · 11 months ago
send a test amount first if the total is large
comment on [Vendor] SWB order #6 — Ireland, 13 days, no drama, receipts inside in c/cryptopay · 2 points · 11 months ago
Got a quote with a fifteen-minute expiry and assumed it was a pressure tactic. It was just a held rate.
comment on [Vendor] SWB order #6 — Ireland, 13 days, no drama, receipts inside in c/cryptopay · 3 points · 11 months ago
Which networks did they list as accepted?
comment on [Meta] proposal — a flair for transit time posts in c/intlshipping · 274 points · 11 months ago
Four observations is not a distribution. The lane tables here only became predictive once individual routes had a dozen or more reports behind them.
comment on [PSA] special authorization is not what most of this community thinks it is in c/glp1canada · 10 points · 11 months ago
Province added to the title. Coverage is provincial and the thread could not be answered without it.