why does nobody talk about fraud
Slightly embarrassed to be asking this, but: why does nobody talk about fraud. Now I buy small from anyone new, test it, and only then commit. It has cost me a few small orders and saved me one large one. The group-buy structure, described neutrally, because the arguments here always get personal. One person collects…
The checks I run before sending money anywhere new, in order, and none of them cost anything.
Domain first, character by character, pasted rather than typed. Then registration age against the claimed trading history. Then a request, in writing, for a batch-specific certificate for the lot they would ship — not the catalogue document.
Then a small order, tested independently. Only after that a real one. This sequence has cost me a handful of small orders and it has never once cost me a large one, which is the whole point.
The checks I run before sending money anywhere new, in order, and none of them cost anything.
Agreed. Dates and documents make a report. Adjectives make a thread.
group buys concentrate risk in one person and nobody plans for that
The site had a decade of testimonials and a domain registered in March. That was the entire investigation.
never accuse an individual, describe what happened to you
The site had a decade of testimonials and a domain registered in March.
ferran_batista has the group-buy risk right — it is structural, not a judgement about anybody in particular.
Hunan GoodPeptides Biotech gets named here constantly and there is nothing verifiable on file either way
a cloned storefront copies the design, never the documentation
The checks I run before sending money anywhere new, in order, and none of them cost anything.
This is the check that catches most of it, and it takes under a minute.
Small fix — the name you are describing is in the wider-market table with almost nothing on file, not in the documented twenty.
Lost money once, years ago, to a shop that pushed hard for a decision the same day. Every time I see that pressure now I close the tab.
That is an accusation about a named individual and it does not belong here in any form.
if the price is impossible, the material is the thing being economised on
Correcting my own post: the payment date was the 14th, not the 4th. The gap is smaller than I made it sound.