[Unverified] anyone else get a DM offering "wholesale pricing"
anyone else get a DM offering "wholesale pricing". If this has been answered properly somewhere, link me and I will delete.
Ask for the batch-specific certificate before payment. Any operation with a quality system behind it can produce one; the request costs you nothing and it filters hard.
Group buys concentrate custody, payment and communication in one person with no structure behind it. That is not an accusation about anyone — it is a description of the risk shape.
A report is useful here when it carries dates, the exact domain, what was requested, what arrived and what did not. Everything else is atmosphere.
Research-use-only material is not approved for human use and nothing here should be read as a recommendation to use it.
best — the order this archive was captured in
Never name an individual. The sidebar rule exists because the cost of being wrong falls on a person and the benefit of being right falls on nobody in particular.
Retitled from an accusation to a description. Same facts, and now the post survives being wrong.
Nearly paid a cloned storefront. Caught it because one character in the domain was wrong and I paste rather than type.
no names without evidence, that is the sidebar rule and it is a good one
Same. A batch-specific document requested before payment costs nothing and filters an enormous amount.
What did the storefront say the lead time was?
Push back: "nobody has tested them" is a fact about this board, not a fact about the company. Say the first one.
Why this board insists on dates and documents rather than names.
A report that says "X is a scam" is unfalsifiable and unactionable. A report that says "ordered on this date, paid this way, asked for a batch document on this date, received this reply, nothing since" can be checked, corroborated, or corrected by somebody with a different experience.
The second kind has repeatedly turned out to be a shipping problem, a payment window, or a misread email. The first kind never turns into anything except an argument, and when it is wrong the cost falls on somebody real.
That is a report count, not a test count, and it changes how thin the evidence base actually is.
Correction: that domain is one character different from the one you posted, which is rather the point of this thread.
The directory deliberately separates "we have nothing on this name" from "this went badly". Collapsing the two is how boards like this generate false certainty.
group buys concentrate risk in one person and nobody plans for that
Small fix — the name you are describing is in the wider-market table with almost nothing on file, not in the documented twenty.
ask for a batch-specific document before you send anything
report it here with dates, not adjectives
Correcting my own post: the payment date was the 14th, not the 4th. The gap is smaller than I made it sound.
the pattern repeats because it works, not because people are stupid
screenshots are not evidence, dates and documents are
Was in a group buy that went quiet for six weeks. It resolved in the end, but the structure meant I had no visibility and no recourse the whole time.
if the price is impossible, the material is the thing being economised on
a shop that will only talk off-platform has told you something
Right, and the group-buy structure is the underrated risk here. One person holds everything and there is no recourse designed in.
a cloned storefront copies the design, never the documentation
Not convinced. A payment window that closed is a payment window, not evidence of intent.
That is an accusation about a named individual and it does not belong here in any form.
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