GROUP BUY CAUTION!!!

[moonpies4misfits]

See, reading all this makes me nervous to stray from my overpriced US vendors. Well I tried Nexaph for tirz and Reta, didn't get burned. But I want the GB discounts and group testing benefits, eventually I'll have to figure out this discord business.

Just wait till theres a good sale and buy directly from the vendor. It's not hard to find a group of people also buying from the same sale to coordinate a group test with.

 

[SassyPants]

Bought from 4 CN vendors so far and they all take credit cards...

Many will but you have to ask. ( This has been my experience in the past, anyway. )

 

[Sandwitch]

Bought from 4 CN vendors so far and they all take credit cards...

I haven’t seen any, unless you want to go through PayPal, Alibaba, or some other third party. I’ve looked mainly at QSC and a couple of others that are mentioned favorably in this forum. But if you say there are multitudes of Chinese vendors willing to take credit card, I’ll keep looking.

 

[scarywood75]

I haven’t seen any, unless you want to go through PayPal, Alibaba, or some other third party. I’ve looked mainly at QSC and a couple of others that are mentioned favorably in this forum. But if you say there are multitudes of Chinese vendors willing to take credit card, I’ll keep looking.

I mean, when you pay with your credit card, it always goes to a third party, unless you are Amazon or something, even if it's third party, what's the issue ?

 

[exploitedworkerbee]

I haven’t seen any, unless you want to go through PayPal, Alibaba, or some other third party. I’ve looked mainly at QSC and a couple of others that are mentioned favorably in this forum. But if you say there are multitudes of Chinese vendors willing to take credit card, I’ll keep looking.

If you insist on paying directly from the vendor with a credit card and not on a third party marketplace then yes, you will not be buying overseas peptides (or almost anything from overseas), no need to continue your search.

You might get lucky and find an American pretending to be Chinese who will take your credit card, I can direct you to one I know of if that would meet the need.

 

[Sandwitch]

I get everyone's point about the relative ease of ordering from CN and I may eventually pull the trigger. But I am definitely not as adventurous as most people when it comes to financial transactions (I use credit cards exclusively) and social media stuff (basically reddit + peptide forums). I tend to stay off the grid as much as I can. But I do enjoy my peptides, so I have had to come out of my shell a little bit this year. I appreciate that people are willing to share their vendor experiences. It will definitely help when if I decide to go that route.

 

[GtownBrown]

As some of you may know, there are several "group buy" Discord servers and Facebook groups popping up recently offering some really attractive bulk pricing over a limited time/supply.

First and foremost, please understand that most of these groups are for-profit and are really just vendors pursuing a "group buy" offering concept instead of doing their own branding, having a website, paying for their own testing, etc.

Most importantly, no matter how great a deal one of these "buys" may seem to be, you should give serious consideration to WHO is running the group and if they can be TRUSTED. A short time ago, one of the people operating one of these group sales began doxxing buyers, full name, address, email, etc. So you really have to consider if agreeing to buy peptides from a random person on the internet offering attractive prices through a "group buy" is worth having your personal information revealed publicly. There are also people being ghosted and banned after paying for their purchase.

Right now, the only GB ("group buy") server I'm comfortable recommending is PGB run by jlo. If you don't know what that means, then you have more work to do as participants have to meet a certain level of knowledge and understanding to be invited to join. But, suffice it to say that if you hear of or are invited to any other group that I would recommend avoiding it!

Oh, and the GB's being offered by QSC are ok in my book as well.

There are some really sketchy people out there trying to take advantage of people's desperation to buy their GLP-1's and other peptides at the best discount possible, and sadly a lot of innocent people have fallen victim to scammers. Please don't be one of them!

I am out here trying not to get scammed, but it’s hard to know what you don’t know.

 

[Bacchus]

I am out here trying not to get scammed, but it’s hard to know what you don’t know.

Welcome to the black market (people like to call it grey, but I find that to be a coping thing for those who doesn't want to buy in the black market).

To be honest, if you read around a bit. You will notice a handful of vendors that are very likely to deliver what you pay for - though the process can be a bit uncomfortable

People just don't want to point you directly to one, because we can not give any guarantees - and don't want the responsibility of you getting done over somehow.

Then there are group buys, I don't know too much about them and I never will since it's not interesting to me. But basically, it's the same thing but with an extra link/buffer depending on how you look at it.

If the one doing the group buy has a good connection, you are sure to get the products, and they will be purity tested, for what that's worth. Or he's just skimming of the top in between and ordering from the cheapest source he can find.

So again, you need to find someone who has been around for a while and has decent feedback/reviews.

And if you don't want to sacrifice that time, then you either take or more risk or pay more