keangkong
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What's an swe?zpped said:I work in the same industry (and not tangentially, I'm a swe at a very prominent corp).

What's an swe?zpped said:I work in the same industry (and not tangentially, I'm a swe at a very prominent corp).

Smothered Waffle Eater.keangkong said:What's an swe?

zpped said:First, they have no "stated" revenue model. If they had no future revenue model, they wouldn't be getting billionaire investors.
Chromate isn't the worst but I would never use them. Trust Pointe is fine. They've used Vanguard which has been proven for just making things up. But they use Krause a lot which is a complete unknown that popped up out of nowhere. Theres a reason Jano has over a decade of trust built up in the community.
Their ratings are broken as well. A "batch id" bumps someone up 2 grade letters, but we all know they are meaningless. It also encourages new users to rely on a vendors reputation instead of testing their purchase.

More comedy... In this case a well-tested SSA T60 with an alleged mass of 85.5 per the scammers manipulating test results for profit at Finnrisk/Krause, the probability of which is exactly zero.rsmith said:For your early Wednesday comedy enjoyment... This T60 Nexaph batch was widely tested and then sent to the scammers manipulating test results for profit at Finnrisk who had Krause test the same batch. Look at the the scammers manipulating test results for profit at Finnrisk/Krause results (95.3 mass for 60 mg.).

I just tried to go search for it but havent found it. I did find a Lot of severe allergic reaction posts though. So A guy had said he had such a bad reaction he was on the floor shaking unable to move for hours until someone found him. Then in the comments another person said something similar but not as bad had happened to them as well. No one said where they had sourced from. Except that it was a well known and reliable source. That's all I remember sorry.chmuse said:Bad tesa? I missed that one. Got any deets?

desinr-gal said:I just tried to go search for it but havent found it. I did find a Lot of severe allergic reaction posts though. So A guy had said he had such a bad reaction he was on the floor shaking unable to move for hours until someone found him. Then in the comments another person said something similar but not as bad had happened to them as well. No one said where they had sourced from. Except that it was a well known and reliable source. That's all I remember sorry.

Don't get me wrong, you're completely right, it's just a bummer.nonyabizznez said:When a group buy vendor receives a bulk shipment then distributes to individual buyers culling samples at random I personally have more confidence in the testing. The bulk order was placed at the same time, shipped at the same time and tested at the same time.
If you personally test a vial out of your kit the result is only for the unrecoverable vial submitted. You can't be 100% certain the remaining 9 vials even came from the same run. Lid colors? For a long time Amo used the same lid color (blue) on everything regardless of peptide or date of manufacture. Over the last couple months there were at least 6 vendors with orange top T30. Several group buy T30's had the orange top as well. At what point would a batch number be useful here? The origin of the raws or the individual lyophilizers or the vendors who claim to have their own factories who are just salespeople sitting on a laptop collecting crypto?
The first representation a vendor displays is an attractive Asian actress/model avatar they've selected to represent themselves. If you accept the reality might be your "Bella" or "Lucy" is actually a row of chain smoking dudes in a computer lab fighting over laptop space the value of 3rd party testing becomes more clear. Trust with a vendor is always temporary and fleeting.
I think that was the humanin....chmuse said:Bad tesa? I missed that one. Got any deets?

I remember the posts specified Tesa. But then again almost everyone is researching multiple things at the same time. They said it was Tesa, and since another person reported the same reaction, at the same timeframe, it seemed (to me)* to be a batch situation. That was just my 3rd party observer opinion. It wasn't verified by any tests that I know of. And I cant find the thread now to quote them.Laxfinity said:I think that was the humanin....
ZippityDooDah said:Smothered Waffle Eater.
Or the much more boring software engineer.

a while back, Jano theorized there are ~7 tirz api sources based on test signatures.joseblo said:I'm glad to see some of my own thinking echoed here. The reliability of lot codes (or cap colors) could only be influenced by the original manufacturers in collaboration with distributors, and I just don't think they have any incentive (for security reasons). Even if they wanted to label, it would have to be with printed unique codes on the caps/bottles (though fluorescence labeling of the lyoph would be cool), and in my short time I've seen plenty of mistakes here which are so reputationally bad they must be screw-ups. Frankly, other than more testing/filtering I'm not sure the compounding pharms are that much better. I certainly had a batch from one I didn't trust (ended up alternating 2 sources for 4 weeks) never went back and tossed out jabs at $100 each.
When group buys get different color caps that are supposedly to be the same batch, you have to laugh or cry (I guess it's better than getting the same color for different peps). I almost think that with the data available on fill%, purity, and cap colors from different vendors over time there's almost enough statistical data to figure how many sources there are and which distributors use which ones. Maybe that's part of what the scammers manipulating test results for profit at Finnrisk is up to?

Jano dear - do tell!zpped said:a while back, Jano theorized there are ~7 tirz api sources based on test signatures.

Right there with you. Just threw out a bottle of syrup the other day that expired in 2023.MadisonB said:Where can I apply to be a Smothered Waffle Eater? Oh wait, who am I kidding, these meds have taken away the joy of all things scattered, smothered or covered![]()

I’m surprised it’s that many, honestly.zpped said:a while back, Jano theorized there are ~7 tirz api sources based on test signatures.

We get real maple at Costco pretty cheap. Maybe this year I’ll try the bourbon barrel aged maple. I hear it’s good. And I make pancakes like twice a year so why not.ZippityDooDah said:Right there with you. Just threw out a bottle of syrup the other day that expired in 2023.

It's not like I won't eat waffles after starting a GLP-1 drug. However, there are far fewer foods that I can buy in Costco sizes.Peotidethrowaway said:We get real maple at Costco pretty cheap. Maybe this year I’ll try the bourbon barrel aged maple. I hear it’s good. And I make pancakes like twice a year so why not.

What’s wrong with vanguard? I just shipped to them to test a few things.chmuse said:My 2c: With the way they're trying unknown- and also proven bad labs- I don't trust them. They've clearly not done enough research into the market to be able to offer a good model. You can't choose what lab they use, and they've done no research on how reliable these labs are. If it has billionaires funding it, why aren't they buying multiple cheap AF kits and comparing results lab to lab to decide which are actually reliable? I literally won't buy from someone who uses vanguard. Period. They have the backers, they should have done research into the market if they're offering 'harm reduction'.
Sending them a vial is a waste of product. The only thing it does is give them data to harvest.

Nachosupremeo said:What’s wrong with vanguard? I just shipped to them to test a few things.

It's been proven multiple times that vanguard just makes shit up.chmuse said:They fudge test results.
There was a batch of sry where sry accidentally sent 45mg instead of 60mg. Vanguard was the only one out of eight vials that tested at the stated 60mg instead of the actual 45

Yes , they explain it on the site. They’ll usually give it a -2.5/+2.5 room for error. It’s an efficacy score 10mg should be 10mg some come over dosed or under dosed. Points get docked for that , and personally I think batch number is redundant and also affects their score.lemon lady said:View attachment 8212 can someone help me understand this? if the purity is 99.61% why is the test score low? Is it because of the difference in quantity?